One thing I find really strange is that it seems like nobody knows GeForce Now exists. I don’t know if it’s because their description is poorly written, or if people simply don’t understand what it actually is.
I have a friend who just spent more than 12,000 reais on a gaming PC just to play CS 2, even though on GeForce Now’s free plan you can already run it. You’ll face queues, of course, but you can.
Not to mention you don’t have to worry about your super expensive hardware burning out.
You won’t have to worry about a 5,000-real graphics card overheating.
There’s Game Pass, which most people who play in the cloud already use, playing new releases, Xbox classics, and having it for PC and Xbox, so that makes things easier.
These services are very interesting and, if used the right way, they’re very good for the consumer, but there’s the issue that you need an internet connection to play all the time, which a lot of people don’t like because it’s not very reliable.
Not having to worry about whether your PC is powerful or not is really good, but there are downsides too: you depend on a single store/company to provide the games, not every game will be there on day one, a game can be removed at any time, you have to keep a subscription to have access, and especially in this era we’re living in, where everything is being digitized and games are being removed and people can’t play them anymore even after buying them, a lot of people still want to buy games, go on Steam and check out the sales and have their own library, go on GOG and have classic PC games running on current hardware.
Personally I’ve never been interested in these services; I only used Game Pass because I had a discount for the first month, since I already own most of the games, so it didn’t make sense for me to subscribe, and I imagine it’s the same for a lot of people.