NVIDIA GeForce Now Game Streaming Service Loses Xbox Game Studios and Warner Brothers
Diversification often leaves a market all splintered up, each company holding its own ground and tied exclusively towards a service. Take for example Streaming services like (initially) Netflix, now diversified content needs three subscriptions, with Prime, Disney+ and so on.
The same thing is happening in the game streaming arena, multiple companies already walked away from GeForce now (Activision-Blizzard, Bethesda, and 2K games), and new ones that will go exclusive with another part are Xbox Game Studios and Warner Brothers. This means starting April 24th, GeForce Now will no longer be able to play titles from Microsoft’s Xbox Game Studios, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Codemasters, and Klei Entertainment, as the Verge reports:
Without Xbox Game Studios, GeForce Now can’t access popular titles like Halo: The Master Chief Collection or games in the Gears of War or Forza franchises. Warner Bros.’ game division is another popular publisher, owning the rights to series like the Batman: Arkham games developed by Rocksteady and Mortal Kombat titles from NetherRealm. Codemasters is well known for developing racing titles with the Formula 1 brand and rally racing games under the Dirt series. And Klei is well known for making indie hits like Don’t Starve and Mark of the Ninja. his was a non-issue when GeForce Now was free in beta form, but since its public trial launch in early February, Nvidia started charging $4.99 a month. Publishers, including Activision Blizzard and Bethesda Softworks, then began pulling their libraries. 2K Games also removed its titles early last month.
“As we prepare for commercial service in June, we’ll be adding and removing games through the end of May,” Phil Eisler, Nvidia’s vice president of GeForce Now, writes in the blog post. “Behind the scenes, we’re working with digital game stores so publishers can tag their games for streaming on GeForce Now, right when they publish a game. This will help us bring more games to the library, quicker, as well as provide a more stable catalog. We’re transitioning as many games to GeForce Now as possible over this time. For those leaving, we’ll give gamers as much notice as possible.”
Nvidia says these publisher removals are few and far between. Thirty of the top 40 games on Steam are supported, the company says. GeForce Now is also gaining access to the complete Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry series.
“Ubisoft fully supports Nvidia’s GeForce NOW with complete access to our PC games from the Ubisoft Store or any supported game stores,” Chris Early, senior vice president partnerships at Ubisoft, said in a statement. “We believe it’s a leading-edge service that gives current and new PC players a high-end experience with more choice in how and where they play their favorite games.”
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I doubt they are going to run out of leather jackets anytime soon
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So, till date there are 14 studios/publishers which left GeForce Now
Take Two Interactive
Rockstar Games
Bethesda
2K Games
Activision Blizzard
Capcom
EA
Konami
Remedy
Square Enix
Xbox Game Studios
Warner Brothers
Codemasters
Klei Entertainment
Who will be next?
//EDIT: 14
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Not a problem, just more companies to add to the boycott list.
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Boycott away, you may end up with nothing to play

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Recently I saw a statistic that demonstrated the most popular titles played on GeforceNow, top 10 didn't have any single player title it in. Most popular games were League of Legends / Fortnite / World of Tanks e.t.c.
And there's a lot of people that use this platform only to play those - so an exodus of major (greedy) publishers, doesn't really harm Nvidia. As they represented less than 10% of the constant growing player base.
What personally baffles me, is the greed of publishers. Let's say I purchase a game on steam - why I, as a consumer, can install it and play from any device I have that supports it, but the second I install it on GeforceNow - magically it doesn't count as I already have purchased the product in their eyes. As if they are somehow loosing out on it. Insanity. If buy a product - I own it, regardless of on which device I use it. Greedy silly buggers.