| Zippy6 said: Activision and Blizzard games are already on Boosteroid. I had no idea about that. Boosteroid Games » Current List 2023 [daily updated] (cloudbase.gg) I believe unlike Geforce Now they do not get approval from publishers before featuring their games. I don't know the legalities of that but I've never really understood why Geforce Now needed permission. They aren't selling the titles just letting you rent a PC to play whatever games you already own on it. Services like Shadow let you play anything, they certainly won't have legal troubles as they don't advertise the games you can play just give you a cloud pc and let you do whatever you want. |
Yeah, Boosteroid has a lot of titles which aren't available on GeForce Now...For now. 
The moment GeForce Now exited Beta and became somewhat popular, publishers all over started yanking their titles off the service, including Activision. They want Nvidia to pay them for the right to stream their games and Nvidia refuses. Nvidia probably doesn't want to hurt relationships with developers either so they just accept it and remove the titles, Boosteroid has no such relationship so they may fight it more.
Boosteroid is a small company which barely anyone knows about so the big boys don't bother with them, but if it becomes popular, I expect we will see publishers starting to demand approval and payment from Boosteroid as well, exactly what happened with GeForce Now. It'll be interesting if it stood up in court though.
"Unfortunately, buying games today isn't as simple as "owning" them. What you're typically buying is a license, and that license comes with strings, like DRM. One of those strings is the EULA, the interminable license agreement in front of some games that may say you can't mod the game or use it in particular ways. As Patrick Klepek pointed out in his reporting on GeForce Now, some EULAs specifically forbid using a cloud service to stream the game. Blizzard bans cloud computing along with selling your account or exploiting bugs to duplicate game items. Blizzard also claims ownership over mods, which is pretty shitty."
"Even if a service like GFN isn't forbidden by a game's EULA, though, it's not purely a hardware service. GeForce Now includes an app and interface for selecting games, including art and descriptions of those games. It's a curated ecosystem, and currently GeForce Now only allows you to play games that Nvidia claims are compatible (when you choose to launch a game, it locks the cloud server's permissions to ensure you can only play that game). I haven't gotten an answer from Nvidia about whether or not bespoke work goes into ensuring these games run properly when streamed from the cloud, but regardless, you're not renting a blank slate cloud computer: it already has Steam and other stores installed, and every compatible game is already installed on a network drive that your virtual machine connects to."
The controversy over GeForce Now, explained | PC Gamer
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