Remember GeForce Now? It's Nvidia's video-game streaming service. But
this one has a twist; you don't actually own (license, whatever) any
games on GeForce Now. Rather, you connect your Steam account to it,
and can stream any of the games* you own on Steam through the service.
This way you can play 'on the go' or without having to own a monster
PC, or repurchase any games on an entirely new service.

Putting aside the merits of streaming, it's not a bad idea and on
occasion I put it to use (mostly when I just want to quickly check out
a game without having to download 100GB of game-data first). The free
edition is not without its downsides (long wait times to get started,
limited play-time once you're in, and you don't get the super-fine
graphics of the paid subscribers), but for my use case, it works well
enough.

So I'm happy to learn that soon you'll be able to link your GOG
accounts to GeForce Now** and get access to those games too. It's not
available yet (I just checked; the options not there in the latest
version, but hopefully it will be there soon).

They're also adding support for BattleNet, MS XBox, Ubisoft UPlay and
Epic (already there), and VR storefronts (forthcoming). All of which
will greatly bolster the available library.

Me, I'm just happy little GOG is still in the mix...





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* well, not every game on Steam; just the ones that Nvidia has
hammered out a deal with the publishers. A selection which includes
many -but not all- of the most popular games (e.g., it has "Doom 2016"
and "Doom Eternal", but not "Doom: Dark Ages"... at least not yet).
Still, it's a goodly number of games

** more info here https://www.engadget.com/gaming/geforce-now-adds-gog-syncing-and-90fps-game-streaming-in-vr-headsets-130656731.html

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.12
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

On Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:48:41 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Remember GeForce Now? It's Nvidia's video-game streaming service. But
this one has a twist; you don't actually own (license, whatever) any
games on GeForce Now. Rather, you connect your Steam account to it,
and can stream any of the games* you own on Steam through the service.
This way you can play 'on the go' or without having to own a monster
PC, or repurchase any games on an entirely new service.

Boy, the computing industry as a whole has murder in its eyes regarding
general purpose computing. I want a powerful computer on my desk where I
get to decide what it does. Even if it's play a hack of Windows 7
Solitaire.

I remember when Tron was released as a commentary on the problems with mainframes. Now they all seem to want to put the MCP back in charge.

Distributed computing is the only way democracy survives. Reject any of
this, no matter how convenient.

--
Zag

Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe,
and to utter freely according to conscience, above
all other liberties. ~John Milton

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.13
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

On Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:06:52 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
said this thing:

Boy, the computing industry as a whole has murder in its eyes regarding >general purpose computing. I want a powerful computer on my desk where I
get to decide what it does. Even if it's play a hack of Windows 7
Solitaire.

And why not? Letting people pay for a game once and then play it
forever just isn't the way to make money. Why, if you allow that, when
they grow bored they might just give the game CD to a friend? How can
the poor publishers make money that way?

Better to tie everything to subscription which can be locked to a
single computer and turned off whenever it is convenient to the
publisher, forcing the customer to constantly pay and then repurchase
the game when it is re-released some time in the future.

Anything else is communism. You're not a Red, are you?!?! ;-)





--- PyGate Linux v1.5.13
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

On 3/14/2026 8:39 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:06:52 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
said this thing:

Boy, the computing industry as a whole has murder in its eyes regarding
general purpose computing. I want a powerful computer on my desk where I
get to decide what it does. Even if it's play a hack of Windows 7
Solitaire.

And why not? Letting people pay for a game once and then play it
forever just isn't the way to make money. Why, if you allow that, when
they grow bored they might just give the game CD to a friend? How can
the poor publishers make money that way?

Better to tie everything to subscription which can be locked to a
single computer and turned off whenever it is convenient to the
publisher, forcing the customer to constantly pay and then repurchase
the game when it is re-released some time in the future.

Anything else is communism. You're not a Red, are you?!?! ;-)

Well, not anymore. My red hair has almost all gone grey (or just gone).

--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.13
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

On Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:39:06 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:06:52 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
said this thing:

Boy, the computing industry as a whole has murder in its eyes regarding >>general purpose computing. I want a powerful computer on my desk where I >>get to decide what it does. Even if it's play a hack of Windows 7 >>Solitaire.

And why not? Letting people pay for a game once and then play it
forever just isn't the way to make money. Why, if you allow that, when
they grow bored they might just give the game CD to a friend? How can
the poor publishers make money that way?

Better to tie everything to subscription which can be locked to a
single computer and turned off whenever it is convenient to the
publisher, forcing the customer to constantly pay and then repurchase
the game when it is re-released some time in the future.

Anything else is communism. You're not a Red, are you?!?! ;-)

I prefer "pinko."

--
Zag

Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe,
and to utter freely according to conscience, above
all other liberties. ~John Milton

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.13
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)