Going into 2025, Nvidia announced significant changes to the GeForce Now cloud gaming platform.This can cause some controversy, especially among power users.

Next year, everyone, including premium tier subscribers, will limit their monthly streaming time to 100 hours. For subscribers, that's a significant number of hours, but it wipes out the unlimited playtime available.

If you haven't noticed, Nvidia GeForce Now is a cloud gaming platform that can stream several games, including some of the latest AAA titles. You can also install it on your Steam deck, stream it through an app on your TV, or install it on a non-gaming laptop like a Chromebook. This year, they added the ability to stream Xbox games.

This limitation was featured in an Nvidia blog post (via PC World). However, if you are currently signed up or have purchased an account between now and 12/31, you will be excluded from unlimited streaming until 2025. But it will end in 2026.

In an announcement article, Nvidia states that restrictions are being introduced to continue to deliver "superior quality and speed, and reduced queue times."Nvidia claims that the 1-hour limit is sufficient for "94% members" who don't play any more in 100 months. That number may include free tier members who only get access to "1 hour per session"."If you are a subscriber, you can see how much time you have accumulated in a month in your account portal.

If you exceed the 100-hour limit, you will have to pay an additional fee of 3 hours in the Performance Tier and 6 hours in the Ultimate Tier. The difference between these 2 is the streaming quality, which gives you up to 1440 resolution in performance, 4K resolution in Ultimate, and even more FPS and DLSS.

Additional changes are coming to the service. In the Standard Priority tier, the name will be changed to Performance and upgraded from 1080p to 1440p. Nvidia says these players "offer entry-level cloud games and you can see that they are streaming from a basic rig, with a variety of specifications optimized for capacity.""

The free tier is highly tuned, but it seems to exist to entice people to at least upgrade to the performance level. Depending on how many people are sticking to the free level, it might explain why Nvidia is introducing new limits.