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by creyes 2322 days ago
I've been using NOW for ~6 months now and it's incredible. Are you going to get 144hz 4k gaming performance? No for sure but I've been using it for a couple of reasons:

1) Games that aren't available on my Macbook. Simple things like Legends of Runeterra and Magic Arena and Magic Online. Not super graphically intensive Geforce Now has worked better than Wine/VM solutions

2) Games that my Macbook just can't play like F1 2019. Good enough for both single and multiplayer.

Gonna miss it being free but easily worth $5.

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Mac or laptop seems to be a good reason for this service, but I am not sure about its value for a PC desktop. $5 / month for 2 years is $120. I can get an OK graphic card to play game on my PC with this price.
You didn't include the cost of Games. Which is easily a lot more than $120.
Geforce Now is a 'bring your own license' system. The subscription doesn't include the cost of the game.
What? Interesting. Sorry I am an idiot, how did I miss that. Thanks for pointing it out.
People still pay multiple thousands extra over years to rent cars and homes, this is no different.

People don't have upfront money. People don't see the value in owning their things - as is intended. Our society is all credit based. As is intended.

You can play games with Ray tracing at 4k HDR. I would buy a graphics cards that can do that for $200
How much data do you use per month on NOW?