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I have both Stadia and GFN. Stadia is straight up unplayable on my wired internet connection. GFN works fine. I've gone through Prey 2, The Witcher 3, We Happ
by maest 7y ago
I have both Stadia and GFN.
Stadia is straight up unplayable on my wired internet connection.
GFN works fine. I've gone through Prey 2, The Witcher 3, We Happy Few, The Witness and a couple of other titles on NVidia's service.
It's pretty good to be honest, however, some caveats:
1. Note how all those titles are single player. I don't think competitive multiplayer games will properly catch on platforms like GFN/Stadia, mostly because of the input latency hindering you in a competitive game. I've tried DotA2 and the input delay is noticeable . That being said, I see people talking about Modern Warfare and other shooters on r/geforcenow, so at least _some people_ are playing these games, but, based on my experience, I have a strong prior that most people won't enjoy competitive games.
2. GFN really needs a better games search engine. My use case (which I imagine isn't that uncommon) is that I buy games on Steam specifically to play on GFN. However, there's no good flow to decide which game to play next.
So far, I've been using the full games list they used to display at https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce-now/games/ https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce-now/games/ but now that's been replaced by a search bar! So the only possible flow now is to look a game up on steam, then manually check if it's supported by GFN. Now, most games are not supported by GFN, so I have to create a shortlist of games, then manually check each one and see if GFN supports it, then make a purchasing decision.
GFN needs a first class search engine, where I can search supported games by genre, year of release and maybe rating.
3. The UI/UX is super janky and confusing in terms of how steam starts up inside of GFN and how you have to install the game. It doesn't bother me that much, but it does feel consumer unfriendly. I was hoping they'd improve the UX before launch, but I guess not.
4. Had a weird bug this one time in The Witcher 3. There are 2 expansion packs you can buy for the game ('Blood and Wine' and 'Heart of Stone'). I do not own them. However, a while ago, I logged onto GFN, started up TW3 and saw a message congratulating me on having installed the expansion packs. I shrugged and resumed my most recent load and, fair enough, new abilities had been added in the game. I logged off after 2 hours of gameplay. The next time I logged on, the expansions were gone and my recent saved games were unplayale because they needed the expansion to load. Must have been some weird glitch where the expansions were still installed from a different player. Weird.