On Sunday, Raphael van Lierop, founder of Hinterland Studio, announced that A long darkness he was deleted from GeForce streaming service Now. He said Nvidia had never asked for permission to install the game on its platform. When he raised the issue, he says his party was there provide a new graphics card in the form of an apology. Most recently in a series of unusual licensing disputes for the launch of Nvidia's streaming service, which ran out of beta hours earlier this year.
"Sorry to those disappointed you will no longer be able to play #thelodark on GeForce Now," said Li Lierop. “Please take your complaints to them, not us. The Devs have to control where their games are. ”
GeForce Now launched in 2015, enabling consumers to stream games from the cloud to Nvidia's Shield device. Over the years the service capacity has expanded to include other platforms such as traditional computers. As of today, Now allows subscribers to play games that already have many different platforms, but which specific compatible games have become a major point of contention between Nvidia and publishers.
In early February, Blizzard activation asked Nvidia to move all of its games to the streaming platform. The collision eliminated access to game subscribers in the Call of Duty franchise again The World of War. A few days later, both parties said it was all because of "misunderstanding." The following week the quantity of Bethesda Softworks articles was also reduced. Games from publishers like Capcom, Rockstar, and Square Enix are also not, apparently, even though they were available during GeForce Now's multi-year beta.
Polygon reached out to Nvidia for more details.
