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Hanno Labuschagne

Hanno Labuschagne

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Hi everyone

Just checking in to hear whether anyone who has signed up to be notified when Rain has opened up new GeForce Now slots have been invited to the join the service in recent days?

Reason I ask is Rain said it sent out a first batch of invitations for new users yesterday (Tuesday 11 Nov 2025).
 
Hanno Labuschagne said:
Hi everyone

Just checking in to hear whether anyone who has signed up to be notified when Rain has opened up new GeForce Now slots have been invited to the join the service in recent days?

Reason I ask is Rain said it sent out a first batch of invitations for new users yesterday (Tuesday 11 Nov 2025).
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The number of responses to your question tells you everything you need to know.
 
Hanno Labuschagne said:
I'm beginning to wonder if Rain is trying to get me to shut up about it already.
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I think it's probably that, no responses or generic responses to everyone else but MyBB and phantom invites being sent out.

I say phantom invites because we typically go from 0 queues to around a 10 people (even on ultimate) when invites are sent out, especially during the weekends but this weekend had 0 queues (from my experience)
 
@Hanno Labuschagne Yesterday I received a mail from Rain that more spaces have opened up, but I missed it.

This morning I tried to sign up, all looked good until I tried to pay, then it said I do not qualify.

I call the call center (I still have trouble placing their accents) and they say sorry, it's all sold out again 😭😭😭
 
mdhw said:
I call the call center (I still have trouble placing their accents) ...
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If you're referring to the call centre agents with accents that don't sound South African, then last time I spoke with them they mentioned they're WFH in the Philippines.
 
Dean said:
If you're referring to the call centre agents with accents that don't sound South African, then last time I spoke with them they mentioned they're WFH in the Philippines.
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Oh, interesting, thanks!
 
Just got an email invite on my second email I used.

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jsgaming11 said:
I'm beginning to think my email is just blacklisted somehow.
signed up january 2024 for waiting list and haven't received nothing. only got generic replies from @rain_mobile
being on rainone also doensnt seem to help
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I got exactly the same, but when going to the cart and trying to pay, I got this:
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So the thing I don't get, right, is you've got Microsoft and Amazon, both of whom already have a presence in South Africa and both of whom also offer cloud gaming.

Why hasn't one of them stepped up and offered it yet to us South Africans, who are obviously hungry for this thing?

I mean, at this stage I don't care if its Xbox Cloud Gaming or Amazon Luna or GeForce NOW, just give me something! 💉

@Hanno Labuschagne You report on these companies sometimes, right? How about reaching out to them and asking what is stopping them from offering their cloud gaming solutions in South Africa? :)
 
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mdhw said:
So the thing I don't get, right, is you've got Microsoft and Amazon, both of whom already have a presence in South Africa and both of whom also offer cloud gaming.

Why hasn't one of them stepped up and offered it yet to us South Africans, who are obviously hungry for this thing?

I mean, at this stage I don't care if its Xbox Cloud Gaming or Amazon Luna or GeForce NOW, just give me something!

@Hanno Labuschagne You report on these companies sometimes, right? How about reaching out to them and asking what is stopping them from offering their cloud gaming solutions in South Africa? :)
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Because our market is not big enough for the capital expenditure to make it worthwhile
 
mdhw said:
So the thing I don't get, right, is you've got Microsoft and Amazon, both of whom already have a presence in South Africa and both of whom also offer cloud gaming.

Why hasn't one of them stepped up and offered it yet to us South Africans, who are obviously hungry for this thing?

I mean, at this stage I don't care if its Xbox Cloud Gaming or Amazon Luna or GeForce NOW, just give me something! 💉
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Amongst other reasons, big companies are just behind and don't take the country seriously, no matter how much progress we make.

For amazon luna, our aws DC does not have the hardware used for the service and amazon haven't touched the gpu side of the data center since it was built.

With the rising cost of building a PC, the cloud gaming market (especially when priced properly like gfn by rain) will continue to grow.
 
vdpollm said:
the reason we get a "Not Eligible for this product" error is because Rain expects us to have a subsription a rain product first, before we can qualify for this. just got off a call with them. this is ludicrous. Rain can forget about that.
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this is the biggest load of manure that i have ever heard. i don't need another data plan, or cellular subscription, or fixed 5G, nothing. i already have these products with other providers and am very happy with them. to be forced to get one of these products, just so that i "qualify" for GEFORCE NOW seems wrong, and i would love to know what recourse we would have.

rain is the only vendor that sells this in south africa, so forcing us to be "eligible" by bying another product first seems a bit heavy handed and monopolistic.
 
I also got an invite for the ultimate plan yesterday morning and I have the same problem with not being eligible for the product. The Rain representative on these forums says it’s a problem on their side and they are working on the issue. Let’s hope by Monday it gets sorted out.
 
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