Nvidia is expected to make a change to GeForce Now that may displease many people. It is the least we can say.
Free, is it over for GeForce Now? Obviously, the free, no-obligation trial version of Nvidia’s cloud gaming service, GeForce Now, will experience a slight change. All from March 5. Indeed, Nvidia announced to the media The Verge that users of the free version will start to see advertisements. Clearly, everyone is starting to get into it.
Nvidia GeForce Now and ads
These ads will be exclusively for free version users and will not affect Priority or Ultimate subscriptions. According to Nvidia spokesperson Stephenie Ngo, “Free users will start seeing up to two minutes of ads while waiting in line to start a gaming session.”
Currently, the free version often requires a wait for a remote computer to free up before each hour of free play. Now it looks like there will be a few commercials during this wait as well. Nvidia explains that these advertisements should help finance the free version of the service. And expects this to reduce wait times on average for free users eventually.
The company also plans to notify all users of the free version via email to alert them of the arrival of the ads. Last October, Nvidia increased the price of GeForce Now in countries outside the United States. Citing “increasing operational costs” as the reason. Several streaming services have seen price increases and introduced ad-supported versions in recent months. As is particularly the case with Amazon Prime.
Despite these changes, the free version of GeForce Now has been criticized for being the least impressive among Nvidia’s offerings. Not fully showing the capabilities of cloud gaming. For the complete experience, it is recommended to try GeForce Now Ultimate.