Starting March 5 GeForce Now Users who use the service for free will encounter advertisements while waiting for their turn to play. There is NVIDIA sent an email to exonerate users by telling them that they will encounter “up to two minutes of video sponsorship messages before each gaming session while queuing”. The company said it will support the free service. NVIDIA also believes that ads will lead to shorter wait times for free users. Company spokeswoman Stephanie Ngo confirmed the change The Verge.
GeForce Now players on the free tier can enjoy an hour of gameplay at no cost, but when each hour-long gaming session ends, they are cut off and have to wait in a queue. Avid gamers who don’t want to pay for GeForce Now’s $10 Priority or $20 Ultimate subscription tiers will have to watch the ads repeatedly. However, the ads only appear in the queue, not in the middle of the user’s playing time, so they are not as intrusive as ads from Netflix or Amazon Prime Videos.
NVIDIA has been recently the third most valuable company It beats Alphabet in the US and is fourth worldwide overall. The company is now valued at $1.83 trillion and has an 80 percent share of the high-end chip market thanks to the AI boom over the past year.
