• Cavemanfreak@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Doesn’t the publisher of the game have to approve for a game to be put on GeForce Now?

    Nope! It’s probably the only cloud service that lets you use Steam/Epic/whatever.

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      11 months ago

      Once I woke up a bit more I had another look at the article, and this phrasing certainly makes it sound like it needs approval at some point:

      Due to a licensing dispute between NVIDIA and Activision in 2020, GeForce NOW lost access to all Activision-Blizzard games.

      Perhaps though it’s a case of “Better to ask for forgiveness than permission” and they just add games until someone tells them to pull it off, I’m not sure. It’s been 4+ years since I looked into GFN, I tried it out during the beta period but I don’t believe I’ve used it since then.

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        11 months ago

        That’s weird. I still have no fucking clue why devs have any say in this. It’s literally just a cloud computer where you can play games you already own on a (approved?) launcher.