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GeForce Now has just doubled its monthly subscription feeExisting Founders members can keep their old price for life, though
Existing Founders members can keep their old price for life, though
Nvidia have also introduced a new annual Priority membership plan that will set you back £90 / €100 a year, which works out a fraction cheaper than a rolling monthly subscription. The free membership hasn’t been taken away, luckily, but you’re still limited to one-hour play sessions and ‘standard’ access to GeForce Now’s servers.
Priority membership, meanwhile, lets you play for an ‘extended session’, get priority access to the servers, and get the benefit of Nvidia’s RTX effects, including ray tracing and DLSS in supported games.
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Of course, it’s never nice when a service you like using massively ups their original pricing, but there is some good news to be found in all this if you’re an existing Founders member. If you started a paid Founders membership on or before March 17th, then you’ll be able to keep your original £4.99 per month (or £24.95 for six months) price for life as part of Nvidia’s ‘Founders For Life’ benefit.
Naturally, there are some caveats to keeping this introductory price, including keeping your membership going without interruption, for example, and continuing to make timely payments. For full details, seeNvidia’s website.
Nvidia have also just launched the service in Turkey, and are hoping to bring it to Saudi Arabia and Australia next through their new GeForce Now Alliance program. These Alliance partners operate regional data centres to offer GeForce Now in local currencies and language support, and will once again reduce latency, improve ping times and cut down the time spent waiting to get on a server.
Despite a somewhat rocky start, GeForce Now has come on leaps and bounds since Ireviewed all the major cloud gaming servicesat the beginning of last year, adding a properlist of supported games, as well as betterlibrary syncingacross Steam andimproved GOG support. It’s also one of the only major cloud gaming services left standing, too, as the rival company behind Shadow recentlyfiled for bankruptcyand Google Stadia has since shut down its internal game studios and isno longer developing any exclusive contentfor it. Is GeForce Now worth paying £9 a month, though? Looks like it might be time to reassess the state of cloud gaming in 2021.
