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2K Games pull Borderlands, Bioshock and more from Nvidia GeForce NowAnother one down
Another one down
Nvidiaannounced yesterdaythat, at the publishers' request, all 20 of 2K’s Games previously available on GeForce Now have been removed from the service. That includes some notable removals, too - withdrawing all of the mainline Borderlands shooters, all three Bioshock games, Civilisation V and VI, andMafia 3, among others listed ina more recent postfrom Nvidia.
It’s not just the big dogs Nvidia have riled up, either. This week, the devs behind wintry survive ‘em upThe Long Darkasked to have their game removed. But game director Raphael van Lierop also noted that Nvidiafailed to get permissionbefore adding the game in the first place.
“Nvidia didn’t ask for our permission to put the game on the platform so we asked them to remove it,” said van Lierop in aTweetat the time. “Please take your complaints to them, not us. Devs should control where their games exist.”
That may be the most telling part of this month-long debacle. Rather than selling games through their own service and offering publishers a cut, Nvidia have made themselves middle-men between players and their games. It’s a wholly different situation to similar services likeGoogle Stadia, which operate more like traditional platforms.
Many publishers and developers may be none too happy at a third-party making bank from streaming their games - especially if, as van Lierop suggests, they’re doing so without asking first.
As with previous withdrawals, Nvidia note that they’re working with 2K to re-enable their games in future. It’s an issue they’ll have to work out quickly, before GeForce Now runs out of games - or people to play them - entirely.
