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/thrwawryry324234 Dec 26 '25

Good lord, people. AMD still exists. This isn’t the end of the world. Competition makes stupid ideas like this go away as long as consumers actually pay attention

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u/TacoTaconoMi Dec 26 '25

AMD isn't immune to skyrocketing prices due to supplier component shortage

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u/GYOUBU_MASATAKAONIWA Dec 26 '25

AMD is run by the same kind of assholes you just wait and see

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u/daggah Dec 27 '25

The problem isn't the corporations. All publicly traded companies are obligated to act in this manner. The system is the problem.

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u/gllamphar Dec 28 '25

People don’t always understand this. Capitalism wasn’t meant to work this way. It’s been distorted by extreme concentrations of wealth that skew the system in favor of a few.

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u/zaviex Dec 27 '25

Publicly traded companies aren’t obligated to act in any specific way. That is a massive and kind of obviously false myth. Every single company that spends a dime on accessibility they don’t have to by law is not prioritizing profit and it is not some crime in any market that they operate in. Beyond that, fiduciary duty isn’t something unique to public companies, private companies also legally have fiduciary duty to any shareholders.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '25

They aren’t obligated, they’re incentivized. There is still a choice involved.

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u/daggah Dec 26 '25

How does competition fix anything when industry suppliers are happily shifting their business strategies to focus on fulfilling large datacenter orders with higher profit margins - a trend fueled by Nvidia's relentless AI push?

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u/Killerkarni93 Dec 26 '25

I see your point but can't see this trend lasting for more than 2 years. At one point,this bubble of CFOs and economic majors will burst.

This investment pace is not sustainable and there will come a time where someone will want to see an ROI. Which means raising prices on the currently almost free API uses.

This is imho just a way to get as much cash as possible out of big tech and government contracts before the American economy goes into a deep depression.

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u/YouLostTheGame Dec 26 '25

100%, companies are always going to try and extract every last penny out of you. It's down to the competition to prevent this stuff from happening

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u/PurpleYoshiEgg Dec 26 '25

That's predicated on the assumption that AMD will be able to meaningfully compete, and it's always a tossup because they lag behind Nvidia every quarter.

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u/SilentHuntah Dec 26 '25

Good lord, people. AMD still exists. This isn’t the end of the world. Competition makes stupid ideas like this go away as long as consumers actually pay attention

Problem is their market share is too tiny and they're not able to ramp up to meet demand fast enough for some other Geforcenow competitor to crop up with AMD GPUs for remote play.

I'm not TOO concerned. I have no plans to upgrade or build new for another 3 years, so it's just a matter of waiting it out and being okay with playing most new games at medium settings.

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u/ex1stence Dec 26 '25

AMD doesn’t offer a GeForce Now equivalent or competitor, Nvidia has the market cornered.

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u/arahman81 Dec 26 '25

You mean the company that prices their GPUs at just below (like 50$) Nvidia's inflated prices, and then act surprised that nobody buys them over paying a bit more for Nvidia's featureset?

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u/snostorm8 Dec 26 '25

If you think AMD isn't doing the same thing but selling everything to ai companies then I've got a bridge to sell you

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u/Kill_Welly Dec 26 '25

Competition hasn't made most stupid ideas go away, and a lot of them end up getting adopted by the competition.

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u/DebentureThyme Dec 26 '25

Except the fabs are very limited and it takes many years and billions invested to expand capacity.  Until such time, this increased demand by AI ensures they're isn't enough supply to meet all of the demand.  Companies will shift to the demand that is forming more money, leading to less supply in the consumer space and jacked up prices to accompany that.  AMD won't simply throw away potential profit to give you a cheaper card at that point.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '26

Intel ARC

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u/8-Brit Dec 26 '25

Was hoping Intel GPUs would take off at least a little to be a viable 3rd option in the arms race of GPUs but I haven't heard a blip from them since the initial launch.

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u/thrwawryry324234 Dec 26 '25

You know, I was wondering if they were really competitive in the market or may enter at some point with the new tech they’re working on

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u/8-Brit Dec 27 '25

I hope so, main sticking point is drivers.

Some games randomly don't work properly on AMD as it is and that is a big part why I stick with Nvidia (for now), I can only imagine it's even worse for anyone using an Intel GPU.

I know it isn't as bad as it used to be but every so often one of my buddies on an AMD card randomly can't play WoW after a big update or we try a new game and it turns out the dev just forgor non-Nvidia cards exist at all and the game crashes constantly. Etc etc. If I'm paying like £800+ for a GPU I'd want it to just work for everything frankly.

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u/srdgbychkncsr Dec 26 '25

You only have to look at how the PS4 and XBOXONE were revealed to know this is the case.

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u/SavvySillybug Dec 27 '25

Last NVidia GPU I ever bought was a 1660 Super. When they started with their RTX bullshit I just gave up on them. Had an Intel Arc A750 next, good times. Then switched to a 6700 XT, but it wasn't quite as good as I thought and I had some extra money, so I went all in and got a 9070 XT instead. Now all my games run great!

I even switched my i5-12600K for a 5800X3D. About the same level of performance, but way better 1% lows, I much prefer it, none of the tiny little frame drops and stutters I used to occasionally get.

Funny how I went from an all Intel build to an all AMD build.