The game streaming service will make almost all of its users pay extra for extended access.

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    That’s better than what I heard earlier. The article o read the other day made it sound like it would buy the next block of 15 hours

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    I wish I could hit 100 hours of playtime a month.

    Still cheaper than buying a gaming PC by far.

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    Don’t pay for this shit. It’s another case of “you’ll own nothing and stop fucking complaining, peasant.”

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      This is one of those situations where you’re correct, but also being poopy about it. For people who don’t regularly play games or can’t afford a system, this is basically a modern blockbuster.

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        Yeah, I’ll own that.

        The reason people can’t afford a system is because NVidia is screwing with the market in the name of AI. Before that they were doing the same in the name of crypto. They’re one of the big companies manipulating politics in their favour, against the better interest of the general populace. They’re standing alongside the companies that are pushing for mass-surveillance, they’re pushing for people to lose their jobs, and for all the other nefarious ways AI is being applied.

        But at least we can ignore our culpability and blame a computer when it decides to bomb a bus of brown school kids on the other side of the planet now, I guess.

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          Zero disagreement with any of that. It’s a violent, brutal, racist, greedy, cyberpunk dystopia out there.

          Burn it all dowm. 🔥🇺🇸🔥

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      The dollars come from charging us extra. Nvidia has been well known in the early days being premium compared to AMD graphics.

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        Aye, this is premium pricing, not necessarily premium quality. The biggest hassle I have with my PC comes from NVidia and their bullshit.

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      I paid $200 for ultimate for a year and got borderlands 4 included in it.

      You’d be challenged to build a decent gaming PC for 3 times that.

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        There is the Steamdeck OLED still, Steam Machine and Steamframes on the way early 2026. Also there is enough used machines in the second hand marketplace to tide everyone else over until the AI bubble pops.

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          I don’t think it will pop. I think it will continue to gobble up components for the next 5 years.

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            It has to eventually, right? It’s just straight up not sustainable, especially in its current form. But I do think the hype will carry things along for a little bit. No doubt things are gonna be ugly in the meantime

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              I big game machine that gives money to rich people isn’t going to break until there literally isn’t any more money left.

              Take a look at countries with people starving in the streets while rich people live in gated compounds. Still think it “has to pop”?

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              I mean “eventually” yes but for the foreseeable future Trump could continue dumping your and my money into it indefinitely in the name of “national security”.

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                Yeah you’re not wrong. The AI market only exists in its current state because it’s heavily subsidized, and that very well may continue to be the case for at least the time being

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            What console does 4k/240hz?? Even PS5 Pro can’t do 4k/60fps in most games, and usually it’s at lower graphics settings too, Digital Foundry does pixel counting and frame rate tests

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              Sorry meant 4k/120, which the ps5 does natively, doesn’t need to be pro.

              Link

              And there’s a host of games that are 4k/120, sorry to burst your reality bubble, consoles hit heavy now.

              And if you want to talk down sampling, the deck does it worse.

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                The deck is weak yeah, much weaker, so there’s no need to embellish. PS5 runs plenty of games even below 1080p/60fps. Output is rarely the same as the actual rendering resolution.

                You can’t just look at the output resolution, otherwise that makes the PS5 and PS5 Pro equivalent in most games, which obviously doesn’t make sense. You need to analyze the internal resolution, image quality, average frame rate instead of peak frame rate, graphics settings, etc

                I’m not arguing against your point of the Deck being poor value if you just want to plug it into a TV and let it sit there.

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                  Do you not know what the term “native” means?

                  Not all games use the checkerboard upsampling. If they do, they can’t be called “NATIVE” 4k.

                  I’m not looking at the output resolution, I’ve educated myself on what the console is capable of.

                  You haven’t.

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            This was prior to the RAM rising, but Valve stated that the Steam Frame would be cheaper than the Index which was at $999 USD.

            That could change now after RAM pricing, but nothing has been said yet.

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      for a few months

      I’d love to see what kind of gaming PC you’re going to build with $30.

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      I don’t know if you’re joking or not. That’s 3h 20 min per day spent on gaming lol

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    what are people even paying for, 100h per month isn’t that much if you have a fair amount of free time or would pause the games between doing other things. i’m expecting for posts about someone accidentally leaving it open and not being able to play for the rest of the month.

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      Its 3h per day. Enough for moderate user, but if you share with a family or just a hardcore gamer, you’ll run out

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        The Venn diagram of moderate users and GeForce subscribers has an overlap that’s about 2mm wide.

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          I imagine hardcore gamers will not tolerate the input lag. When I think hardcore gamer, I think high-end PC with high refresh display

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    I hit 112 hours in Black Ops 7 in two weeks.

    Genuinely eat shit, Nvidia.

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        In other words “Nothing beats having restrictions!!! bdsm cbt ftw!!”

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        I don’t listen to influencers who make their entire damn money out of yelling at people “QUIT HAVING FUN!!!” or “YOUR GAME IS SLOP!!!” (while they literally play a slop of a different flavor) or got burned out by CoD for playing for so long that they hate it now and spend 90% of their time trashing it, sorry. I play the game myself and decide if I want to buy it or not.

        Note that when Battlefield 6 launched I also put 100+ hours into it in like 2 weeks.

        But yes, I should definitely be given a time limit sometimes LOL

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      yeah I’m literally unemployed and gaming is my primary hobby. I have NEVER hit 100hrs on GFN and I’ve been using it for years. I may not have a job, but I do have a life outside of games. I can’t imagine someone who has both that has more than 100 hours of free time to game.

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        Wasn’t it 50 h before? So now 2x as much? No need to be anti someone based on prejudice alone.

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      Yeah I do this because I don’t want to spend $$$ upgrading my rig and I don’t have as much free time to justify hardware costs.

      The paid plans start at $10/month. So $10/month to have hardware capabilities to play new games isnt bad. And if you want to divide it by hours additionally its $0.10/hour…

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        Yeah I mean it makes a whole lot of sense if you have the connection to support it, in my opinion.

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          Yeah I pay for Fiber Internet where I am. And unfortunately I only have time to play except for weekends.

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    you really don’t want to piss off your paying customers who have more than a hundred hours of free time a month to trash you online lol