NVIDIA has announced that starting January 1, 2026, each GeForce NOW cloud gaming subscription will be limited to 100 hours of play time per month. The company is implementing its long-lasting promise revealed in 2024, with the option for users to purchase additional play time as needed. Under the standard Performance tier, which costs $9.99 per month, after the 100-hour play time is reached, users can buy extra 15-hour blocks for $2.99 each. For the Ultimate tier, priced at $19.99 per month, additional 15-hour blocks are available for $5.99 each.
Since months are averaged to about 30.437 days, any play time exceeding the 100-hour limit is rounded up to the next 15-hour block, potentially leading to extra charge if someone wants more play time. For instance, playing around three hours per day (approximately 91 hours per month) remains within the base fee, but playing four hours daily (about 122 hours per month) results in extra costs of approximately $15.97 on the Performance tier or $31.97 on the Ultimate tier.
So, let’s do some breakdown. Let’s say 365.25 days per year. Divide by 12, that’s 30.4375 days per month. 100 hours per month is 3.29 hours per day. That’s almost 23 hours per week.
A reasonable person working 8-5 might get 2 hours of recreation per day during the week. That takes up 2 hours per day, 5 days a week for 10 hours during the week. That leaves 13 hours on the weekend, or 6.5 hours per day.
Realistically, that’s a reasonable amount of time to play video games. On the other hand, fuck these arbitrary restrictions, play games locally.
Your definition of “reasonable” is way low I think. Especially with a lot of people working from home so their time isn’t eaten up by driving anymore. I do not know a single gamer who doesn’t consistently put in over 3 hours a day average. More broadly most people I know put that much time into their hobbies (many with kids).
Only 2 hours of recreation a day seems like a terrible time to me, unless you have kids, in which case I get that’s how it is when they’re small.
I spend like 1 hour in the morning to get ready and travel to work, then about the same to get home and have dinner. Let’s say 1 hour for chores every day (though even if I do both laundry and cleaning the same day it won’t take that long, and I don’t do those every day.) That leaves me with at least 5 hours a day for recreation.
But weekends are 14 hours of recreation per day, not 6.5 surely? 8 hours sleep + 2 hours for some extra time to cook good food etc. and we already did most chores during the week.
I sometimes spend a weekend gaming, but most of the time many of those hours are spent on a variety of things like visiting family, sports, crafts, going downtown etc. because I like a lot of different recreation. But yeah, we can certainly agree on fuck arbitrary restrictions, and everyone should be able to own their own things. Would just be very interested to know where you are coming from with those numbers.
I can only imagine you might be in the US and a lot of it is driving? That seems to suck, I would hate to drive for hours every day :(
So you, with a family and spouse can just plop your ass in front of a computer for 14 hours in Saturday and Sunday every week without any repercussions? AND play 5 hours every day on top of that?
Teach me your ways.
If you only get 2 hours of recreation a day then your life fucking sucks or you have shit time management skills.
God I would hate my life if I only had 2 hours of me time a day.
You sound like someone whose kids go no contact after they move out 👍🏻
6.5 hours per day every weekend does not seem reasonable or healthy to me.
Hell, if someone was exercising that much or fishing or knitting or any hobby, it wouldn’t seem healthy. Once in a while, sure. But, not every weekend.
There’s a lot of unhappy gamers downvoting us.