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As 2025 approaches, Nvidia has announced a significant change to the GeForce Now cloud gaming platform that may cause some controversy, especially among power users.

Next year, everyone, including premium level subscribers – will see the monthly broadcast duration limited to 100 hours. For subscribers, that’s a pretty significant number of hours, but it negates the unlimited playback time available.

If you don’t know, Nvidia GeForce Now is a cloud gaming platform that lets you stream multiple games, including some of the latest AAA titles. It can be installed on your Steam bridge or streaming via the app on your TV or even on non-gaming laptops, like a Chromebook. This year they added the possibility of stream Xbox games.

The limit was introduced in a NVIDIA blog post (via PC World). However, if you are currently registered or purchase an account by December 31, you will be grandfathered in for unlimited streaming until 2025. This ends in 2026, however.

In the announcement post, Nvidia says the limit is being introduced to “continue to deliver exceptional quality and speed, as well as shorter wait times.” Nvidia claims that a limit of 100 hours will be enough for “94% of members” who don’t play more than that in a month. This number may include free tier members who only have access to “one hour per session.” If you are a subscriber, you can see how many hours you have accumulated in a month in your account portal.

If you exceed the 100 hour limit, you will have to pay an additional $3 for an additional 15 hours at the Performance level and $6 at the Ultimate level. The difference between the two is in streaming quality, where you get up to 1440 resolution on Performance and 4K on Ultimate, as well as higher FPS and DLSS.

Additional changes will be made to the service. The standard Priority level changes its name to Performance and goes from 1080p to 1440p. The free tier remains, with Nvidia saying these gamers “will now see that they’re streaming from core platforms, with varying specifications that offer entry-level cloud gaming and are optimized for capacity.”

The free tier is extremely limited, but it seems to exist to entice people to upgrade to at least the Performance tier. Depending on how many people stick with the free tier, this could explain why Nvidia is introducing new restrictions.

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