Nvidia Capping Monthly GeForce NOW Playtime at 100 Hours

Nvidia today announced plans to start capping the number of hours that GeForce NOW players can game each month, with the company charging an additional fee for more game time.

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Performance (formerly the Priority plan) and Ultimate subscribers will get 100 hours of gameplay a month starting in January 2025. Up to 15 hours of unused playtime will roll over to the next month. Performance subscribers can purchase 15 additional hours for $2.99, while Ultimate subscribers can purchase 15 additional hours for $5.99.

Current GeForce NOW subscribers that have a paid membership as of December 31, 2024 will continue to have unlimited playtime until January 2026.

Nvidia says that limiting playtime will allow it to provide exceptional quality and speed, along with shorter queue times. The 100-hour monthly playtime limit "comfortably accommodates" 94 percent of subscribers.

The Performance plan, priced at $9.99 per month, provides subscribers with access to a GeForce RTX with 1440p streaming quality. The Ultimate plan is priced at $19.99 per month and offers a GeForce RTX 4080 and 4K HDR 120fps streaming.

Nvidia continues to offer a basic free plan for entry-level cloud gaming, as well as day passes priced starting at $2.99.

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Top Rated Comments

Entilzha Avatar
12 months ago
Oh look, yet another reason why I will never move to game streaming!
Score: 33 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Unity451 Avatar
12 months ago
I can't fathom spending that much time every month gaming, but then again I'm an adult.
Score: 30 Votes (Like | Disagree)
SeaFox Avatar
12 months ago
100/mo doesn't seem like much for someone who's primary recreational activity is PC gaming (of course, a serious gamer wouldn't be using a streaming service anyway, lol).


Nvidia says that limiting playtime will allow it to provide exceptional quality and speed, along with shorter queue times. The 100-hour monthly playtime limit "comfortably accommodates" 94 percent of subscribers.
If 94% of subscribers will be unaffected by this limit, how does adding it provide such a profound positive impact on the QoS? 6% of users aren't going to contribute to that much resource usage. BS-detector beeping.
Score: 21 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Trusteft Avatar
12 months ago
Good. Good move Nvidia. Keep milking them. The sooner this service ends, the better for gaming.
Score: 16 Votes (Like | Disagree)
v0lume4 Avatar
12 months ago

I can't fathom spending that much time every month gaming, but then again I'm an adult.
It sounds like a lot, and it is a decent chunk of time in one month to be fair. That said, if you consider 3 hours of gaming 30 days in a month, that's 90 hours. So almost 100. So it's not entirely out of the realm of reason. While I probably would rarely clock 100 hours in a month, I could easily clock half of that.

Signed, an adult who plays video games.
Score: 13 Votes (Like | Disagree)
sunny5 Avatar
12 months ago
This is how the monopoly works as Nvidia has over 90% of external GPU markets and there is no way AMD can compete them.

No competition, unlimited price gouging.
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)