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GeForce Now asks developers to opt-in before streaming their gamesAlways ask permission
Always ask permission
See, GFN has been shedding games since coming out of beta. Big publishers like2K Games,BethesdaandActivision Blizzardpromptly pulled GeForce Now support from their libraries - with the latter claiming there was a"misunderstanding"over contractual agreements and free trial periods. Canadian survive ‘em upThe Long Darkprovided a simpler explanation whenleaving the service: Nvidia didn’t check with devs before putting games on its shelves.
“Nvidia didn’t ask for our permission to put the game on the platform so we asked them to remove it,” director Raphael van Lierop explained at the time. “Devs should control where their games exist.”
Thing is, losing games from your game-streaming service isn’t exactly the best look. To help provide some much-needed confidence in their line-up, Nvidiathis week announceda switch to an “opt-in” approach to getting games on GeForce Now. Nvidia have compiled a list ofmore than 500 games currently opted into GFN streaming, with publisher commitments bringing the service’s total to just over 2000 games.
Granted, some of GFN’s existing offerings haven’t given Nvidia the green light. That page also lists a number of games that’ll leave the service on May 31st, with Nvidia’s assumption that their publishers are still “figuring out their cloud strategies”.
But it’s assurance enough forThe Long DarkdevelopersHinterland. In aa blog post announcing their return to GFN, the devs are very much behind the idea of game streaming - it just would’ve been nice if Nvidia had asked their permission first.
“Accessibility is important to us,” wrote van Lierop. “GeForce Now is a great service that offers players with low-spec or incompatible hardware the chance to play the games that might otherwise be out of reach, and we’re happy to announce that we’re bringing The Long Dark back to GeForce Now, effective immediately.”
If others follow suit in bringing back their absent games, GeForce Now may finally manage to thaw itself out of a particularly frosty start. Sorry.
