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Nvidia GeForce Now is putting video ads before play sessions on their free tier (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 8 months ago by Astronautical@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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This is just peak enshittification at this point.

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[–] ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The enshitification discourse on lemmy is fucking nuts. Service goes from you getting a gaming PC completely free, no strings attached except your play session is limited to hour, to the same thing but you see preroll ads while you queue. Any person with more than two braincells could tell it was meant to be a trial for the paid service, but of course people on here are gonna cry because they don't get free toys anymore.

[–] Astronautical@sh.itjust.works -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's not the point I was making in the post. I was just showing what was happening with it. I've also been a paid subscriber to it on and off; my gripe with it is that it already takes about 5 to 10 minutes to queue into the service (Priority queue for paying ofc), but with this new system it will only start to add you to the queue after you watch the pre-rolls. If it played them while you were stuck in queue, that'd be no big issue to me.

[–] Schlomocucumber@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

starting March 5, 2024, members will experience up to two minutes of video sponsorship messages before each free gaming session while in queue.

I take that to mean that they are playing the ads while you're already in que waiting for your session

[–] Astronautical@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ah shit, my reading literacy is terrible. Sorry about that.

[–] Schlomocucumber@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Happens to the best of us 👍