You have to be both a hardcore gamer AND wealthy enough to buy the brand new AAA game that needs expensive hardware, and yet be poor enough to not be able to afford a gaming rig that can handle it? But also have the funds to pay a service?
Like, imagine buying a wagyu beef but only owning a microwave? So you rent a kitchen?
GFN is not for “hardcore gamers”. Well… at least not until recently (more on that).
It is more for the people who might mostly play older titles but want to experience the newest hotness. That 1070 has zero problems with all the indie games but you have heard that Clair Obscur is REAL good and you want high fidelity toesy woesies. Or maybe you mostly just play Madden and Call of Duty every year and don’t want to spend the money on a new computer (… assuming you play either on PC).
And it is nVidia so their linux support is a shitshow, but I was personally VERY tempted to try GFN when Dragon’s Dogma 2 was shitting the bed endlessly at launch. Ended up buying a new graphics card instead which… has somehow turned out to be a good decision?
But if you are the kind of person who upgrades every 5-8 years and cares about high fidelity gaming? You don’t need this.
… Assuming you upgraded in 2024. Because now EVERYTHING costs an arm and a leg and just gets worse and worse by the week.
Like, imagine buying a wagyu beef but only owning a microwave? So you rent a kitchen?
Change that to a nice 2 inch bone-in ribeye. Actually don’t, since that is also best cooked on a stove. But let’s move past that.
It is not that you don’t have a kitchen. It is that you don’t have a grill or a range hood (ooh, that actually works). So you rent a grill for the weekend.
And… that isn’t too dissimilar from people who get gym memberships so they can go climbing (because they don’t live in an area where they can easily do it outdoors) or because they don’t want to buy expensive gear.
And… honestly? A couple years back I had to help emergency cater a friend’s wedding (it was a whole thing). I… would totally pay money to get access to that kitchen a few times a year. Like… holy shit was it amazing.
The upside of this is that your games aren’t locked to the streaming platform. When you get yourself a PC you stop paying for Nvidia’s service, log into your Steam account and enjoy your games locally.
This is where I’m confused.
You have to be both a hardcore gamer AND wealthy enough to buy the brand new AAA game that needs expensive hardware, and yet be poor enough to not be able to afford a gaming rig that can handle it? But also have the funds to pay a service?
Like, imagine buying a wagyu beef but only owning a microwave? So you rent a kitchen?
It doesn’t have to be a “brand new AAA game”. It can be a somewhat-recent AAA game on sale. Some of the discounts in the first year are ridiculous.
And I’ve been surprised at how many games in the past few years were more than my 3070 could handle on high settings, let alone “ultra”.
GFN is not for “hardcore gamers”. Well… at least not until recently (more on that).
It is more for the people who might mostly play older titles but want to experience the newest hotness. That 1070 has zero problems with all the indie games but you have heard that Clair Obscur is REAL good and you want high fidelity toesy woesies. Or maybe you mostly just play Madden and Call of Duty every year and don’t want to spend the money on a new computer (… assuming you play either on PC).
And it is nVidia so their linux support is a shitshow, but I was personally VERY tempted to try GFN when Dragon’s Dogma 2 was shitting the bed endlessly at launch. Ended up buying a new graphics card instead which… has somehow turned out to be a good decision?
But if you are the kind of person who upgrades every 5-8 years and cares about high fidelity gaming? You don’t need this.
… Assuming you upgraded in 2024. Because now EVERYTHING costs an arm and a leg and just gets worse and worse by the week.
Change that to a nice 2 inch bone-in ribeye. Actually don’t, since that is also best cooked on a stove. But let’s move past that.
It is not that you don’t have a kitchen. It is that you don’t have a grill or a range hood (ooh, that actually works). So you rent a grill for the weekend.
And… that isn’t too dissimilar from people who get gym memberships so they can go climbing (because they don’t live in an area where they can easily do it outdoors) or because they don’t want to buy expensive gear.
And… honestly? A couple years back I had to help emergency cater a friend’s wedding (it was a whole thing). I… would totally pay money to get access to that kitchen a few times a year. Like… holy shit was it amazing.
The upside of this is that your games aren’t locked to the streaming platform. When you get yourself a PC you stop paying for Nvidia’s service, log into your Steam account and enjoy your games locally.