Since then was officially launched last month, game publishers were leaving the stage for Nvidia Now's Gevorce streaming at the meetings. Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney, meanwhile, defended the service, said it was the most important option for the developer here.
"Epic wholeheartedly supports NVIDIA's GeForce service NOW and Fortnite and Epic Games Store titles that choose to participate (including exceptions), and we will improve integration over time," Sweeney wrote on twitter last Friday. He praised the fact that Nvidia does not handle sales from games supporting GeForce Now and said companies should support you if they want to take the gaming industry to a healthier world.
Gevorce's Nvidia platform is now one of the most popular video game streaming services out there. Unlike Google Stadia or PlayStation Now, signing up for GeForce Now does not give you access to a gaming library that you can stream. Instead, it distributes games that you already own by integrating with your Steam accounts or Epic Game Store. If you pay for GeForce, you pay for the hardware needed to play the game and it has been streamed on your laptop or smartphone. The end result, at least in the introduction, was the ability to play most games you had, but they ran, while away from the gaming PC.
At the top it looks like an innocent value raise, but that hasn't stopped many of the biggest publishers from pulling GeForce Now sponsorships into their games. Other companies, such as Square Enix and Capcom, have made this decision before the service left beta last month. Some, like Blizzard activation, have done it only a week before the service is officially launched.
GeForce Now doesn't have a dedicated list of all supported games, so it's hard to know how many publishers have sailed. Bethesda pulled all its games last month, but left something different: Wolfenstein: Youngbloods. 2K Games, meanwhile, is the latest publisher to take over the rest of its catalog, including major games like Civilization VI, Borderlands 3, again Red Redemption 2.
The game's publishers quietly said why they decided not to support the app. Every time the games are removed from GeForce Now, it is Nvidia who has announced that they are leaving in its organizations. The company did not respond to multiple requests for comment, with most of the recipients remaining left to solicit at corporate forums via Reddit return of support for similar games BioShock and Fallout 4.
"Devs have to control where their games are." – Raphael van Lierop, director of The Long Black
It's still unclear why so many publishers have rejected GeForce Now. Another possibility is that it has been a power move in negotiations with Nvidia over which publishers should receive a pay cut. Another possibility is that some of these companies are working on distributing their resources. At last year's E3, Bethesda has announced that it is working on "Orion," a project to make high-quality streaming games and low latency easier.
Adding to the confusion surrounding the future of GeForce is now how many games are supported. Warner Bros. Active Entertainment Arkham a trilogy for both of you Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor games can be distributed, as are many Sega games. CD Projekt Red & # 39; s Author II and III and are no longer supported. And then there's Ubisoft, the biggest publisher still working with the app.
"Ubisoft fully supports GeForce for NVIDIA Now with full access to our PC games from the Ubisoft store or any supported game stores," said Chris Early, SVP of the corporate and revenue company. Kotaku in the email. "We believe that this is a leading service that gives current and new PC players a great deal of experience with a lot of choice about where to play their favorite games."
But the way GeForce Now is released seems to surprise many developers by surprise. Last week, the director of A long darkness, Raphael van Lierop, wrote to Twitter that Nvidia never asked for permission to broadcast the game in its operation. “Please take your complaints to them, not us. The Devs have to control where their games are. ”
Pin Games reported other indie channels such as the makers of Entering Divorce, Underground Games, and Celeste, Matt Mak Games, didn't even know their games were on GeForce Now. While they did not call Nvidia to remove the games, and they were in the dark for the rest of the service. Even now some popular indie games like Call the Spire supported while others liked Night in the Forest they are not.
What seems clear is that even though GeForce Now is a completely different approach to video game streaming than Google Stadia, it has a similar presentation. Sweeney's vote could help bolster the service in the short term, but until Nvidia becomes more clear about what service her service will support and how much, signing up to be the founder of GeForce Now is a risky bet.
