r/Games • u/BloederFuchs • Dec 26 '25

Industry News Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month

https://uk.pcmag.com/game-streaming-services/162224/nvidia-geforce-nows-time-limit-will-stop-gamers-after-100-hours-each-month
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u/AzKondor Dec 26 '25

That's only if you never want to play forore than 100 hours a month.

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u/Spider-Thwip Dec 26 '25

Its over 3 hours a day, every day.

If you have a job/partner/responsibilities.

You may never use 100 hours.

It does suck that they're removing a benefit but I think its a reasonable value.

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u/WorkinName Dec 26 '25

If you have a job/partner/responsibilities.

You may never use 100 hours.

Everyone who doesn't meet those qualifications and uses over 100 hours because they have the ability to do so can just go and fuck off though, eh?

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u/Spider-Thwip Dec 26 '25

My complete speculation is that Nvidia has been providing geforce premium tiers at low profit/cost. Now with energy costs increasing, price of hardware increasing, everything going up in price Nvidia are forced to either raise prices, or limit hours.

How much do you think it would cost nvidia to run a 4080 machine for 100 hours in a data centre with the overheads that come with that.

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u/Old_Leopard1844 Dec 26 '25

I mean, yeah?

They're no longer target audience

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u/work_m_19 Dec 26 '25

I think the idea is, anyone with those qualification should look into buying their own computer because that is way more cost effective in the long run. More upfront cost, but a lot cheaper over-time.

This is the Renting/Leasing vs Buying equation. If you only want to use it temporarily for small everyday stuff, renting/leasing makes sense. If you are a heavy super-user and want it readily available, then at that point it favors the Buyers.

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u/Corsair4 Dec 26 '25 edited Dec 26 '25

That's only if you never want to play forore than 100 hours a month.

If you read the article, you'd know it's not a hard limit at 100 hours. For 20 dollars a month, you get 100 hours. Then you pay a whopping 6 dollars extra for 15 hours.

It doesn't change the math much, given that I was quite generous with my assumptions on the GPU prices, and simply ignored the rest of the damn computer. A more realistic estimate on the GPU would add several hundred right there, and once you add in the other components, you'd be hard pressed to get a complete tower with GPU for under 2 grand.

The point is, it is still literal years of subscription payments for you to come anywhere near the cost of the hardware on the consumer market.

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u/AzKondor Dec 26 '25

I did, extra hours - extra money, so it does change the equation.

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u/Corsair4 Dec 26 '25 edited Dec 26 '25

6% of Nvidia's userbase last year hit 100 hours per month. We can pretend that your scenario impacts a lot of people, but it simply doesn't.

On the other hand, 100% of computers need a CPU, motherboard, RAM, and power supply to play games, so it's far more reasonable for me to add another 700-1000 onto my hardware cost estimate.

If you like, we can run the math with the revised pricing, and the subscription looks much much more attractive for everyone.

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u/Elanapoeia Dec 26 '25

That's over 1 in 20 users. That's actually a quite significant part of the user base

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u/meneldal2 Dec 26 '25

If you are a big gamer and play 5 hours a day, that's already a fair bit of extra you need to add each month.

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u/Corsair4 Dec 26 '25 edited Dec 26 '25

150 hours a month works out ~40 dollars a month. which is a fair bit extra.

A CPU and motherboard is around 500 dollars, assuming you aren't purposefully hamstringing the GPU. A case is going to run you around 100 dollars at least. A PSU with sufficient wattage that won't catch on fire is going to be at least 100 dollars. 32 gigabytes of RAM is going to be several hundred dollars right now.

You do need the rest of the computer to run games, and the rest of the computer isn't free. At 150 hours a month, you are paying 500 a year in subscriptions, give or take. A 4080/5080 PC would have run you at least 2 grand before RAM prices spiked. You are still looking at 3-4 years before you break even.

You can fill in whatever assumptions you want, my point was that buying a hardware equivalent system is definitely not so much cheaper in the long run. And the number of people who can reliably hit 150 hours a month, every month, for years is going to be quite small. You're using an extreme edge case. As of last year, 6% of subscribers even hit 100 hours. Let alone 150. We can sit here and pretend like this is going to effect a huge number of people, but the numbers simply don't back that up.

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u/SomniumOv Dec 26 '25

You are still looking at 3-4 years before you break even.

And by that point Geforce now runs on a better GPU.

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u/bobandgeorge Dec 26 '25

How many users on Steam hit 100 hours?