MAY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 69vastly more games than Stadia and other cloud-based
challengers, but Blizzard’s Warcraft, Diablo, StarCraft,
and Hearthstone are some of the most-played and
most-loved franchises in PC history. Call of Duty,
meanwhile, tops sales charts year-in and year-out, and
Modern Warfare’s removal means you won’t be able
to try out its ray tracing with your fancy GeForce Now
Founders subscription. This hurts.
It’s also a bit perplexing.
We’ve written at length about GeForce Now and
why it rocks, and its value proposition isn’t limited to
gamers alone. Nvidia’s service doesn’t sell you games
directly. Instead, it basically rents you a gaming PC
in the cloud, and you sign into gaming platforms like
Steam, the Epic Game Store, and (formerly) Battle.net
to play games you already own. Nvidia doesn’t take
an extra cut. By giving you access to more powerful
hardware than you might already own, GeForce NowNvidia’s GeForce Now lets you play PC
games across a wide variety of devices