The North American company informs its users that the cloud service gets rid of all the company's titles. Details of what happened.
Nvidia has informed its users that all Activision Blizzard video games are no longer available through the GeForce Now cloud streaming service, recently released in its beta version in response to Google Stadia and Microsoft Project xCloud. In this way, video games such as Overwatch, the Call of Duty and Diablo saga have been removed from the platform immediately.
According to The Verge, neither party has explained the reasons for the rupture of this contractual association, which allowed GeForce Now players to make use of the video games of said publisher. Not surprisingly, the statement does explain Nvidia's willingness to return to work with Activision Blizzard in the future, so the situation is not irreversible.
The information reported by the source assures that it may be an economic conflict regarding the percentage of income to be distributed by the profits generated by the service.
Therefore, there are many unknowns at the moment. In order for Nvidia to incorporate a video game into GeForce Now, it needs the express approval of the publisher responsible for the budding title, prior economic agreement through; however, although Activision Blizzard's works were initially available — the existence of that agreement was therefore presupposed — you are now disabled.
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How GeForce Now differs from Google Stadia
One of the main assets of Nvidia with GeForce Now, with which it intends to attack Google with Stadia, is that this new alternative of video games through streaming does not sell video games separately; It is not a store with videogames executable through the cloud, but the library of each user is enabled immediately to transmit those games from Nvidia servers to all types of devices: laptops, Mac, tablets, Nvidia Shield, devices Android …
Currently, GeForce Now is presented as a solution with more than 1000 video games; Among them, Fortnite, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Kingdom Come: Deliverance and Wolfenstein: Youngblood. The company strongly promoted works such as Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII, but it is one of those eliminated because of this circumstance with Activision Blizzard.
The GeForce Now beta is free, but the Premium subscription (Founders) will be priced at 5.49 per month for 12 months (one year).
