Nvidia GeForce NOW SA launch

[tm458]

Just remember, we're lucky down here to have such short "queues".Europe servers have like 300 people queues

yeah and almost all the other alliance partners have like 150+ with 1060 or 2080 rigs lmao.

We have it good here.

 

[tm458]

I can sort of see why they barely marketed the thing.

They had 1 facebook post about the beta last year and it went the same as all their other posts, just filled with people complaining about their mobile service or clowning on rain themselves. Out of the 400+ comments on that post, i think there were a few people who were actually talking about GFN.

I think the best way they can market this is through publications like mybroadband, NAG etc otherwise it's just gonna be a fight against "Rain is kak" comments

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See? These guys are facing an uphill battle lmao but at least the service has gotten traction with all the signups coming through

 

[DarkSt0rm]

Just remember, we're lucky down here to have such short "queues".Europe servers have like 300 people queues

It's just a scaling problem in the EU/US, everything is too damn expensive at the moment, GFN isn't

 

[rmrahman]

It's just a scaling problem in the EU/US, everything is too damn expensive at the moment, GFN isn't

I'd say the same about SA tho. Tech stuff in general are massively marked up in SA

 

[SirBob]

What's the performance like from Cape Town?

 

[antonfh2]

Just remember, we're lucky down here to have such short "queues".Europe servers have like 300 people queues

Yes 9 in queue is nothing compared to the times I tried to play GFN over a VPN on free tier and there was like 96 in the queue in front of you. Used to go get some meat and wors, put it on the braai, have a few beers, by the time food was ready and I opened the last Castle in the six pack...then only would I be on ....there are 9 users in front of you in the queue

 

[Dean]

What's the performance like from Cape Town?

Technically? It's great.
Personally? That's a skill issue.

 

[Kosmik]

Beta testers who already paid for December, do you know if in Jan we'll be automatically converted to the full rate or we'll need a new signup?

No conversion, they say it's supposed to have been cancelled so there is a glitch.

 

[SirBob]

Technically? It's great.
Personally? That's a skill issue.

Have you had any noticeable input lag?

 

[Dean]

Have you had any noticeable input lag?

None that I've noticed

 

[Flamer283]

Exactly. The queues are crazy. https://gfn.zortos.me/queueinfo

How accurate is this, because in Europe they have free tiers to try the service.

 

[Kosmik]

How accurate is this, because in Europe they have free tiers to try the service.

Well, it bodes quite well if there are queues WITHOUT free in the SA market. That means you have a TON of folks willing to pay.

 

[shadow_man]

I didn't manage to grab an Ultimate slot (site kept hanging / crashing), but I still have Priority - wonder how hard it will be to upgrade now that Ultimate is sold out?

 

[KleinBoontjie]

Just make sure your company has uncapped and you’re friendly with the network admins in case this gets flagged lol

I am the "network admin" so to speak. Laptop, guest wifi and linux on a stick should hide me good!

 

[Phylax]

Project idea: Repurpose my Raspberry Pi 3 to run GFN in browser.

 

[DarkSt0rm]

I'd say the same about SA tho. Tech stuff in general are massively marked up in SA

Only difference is the size of the population here who will spend money buying games and then spend more money on GFN to play them compared to just getting an Xbox or ps5

 

[cavedog]

Today the whole day there was a queue of between 6 - 15 people on Ultra.

 

[DarkSt0rm]

Today the whole day there was a queue of between 6 - 15 people on Ultra.

It's cleared now, they have either scaled a bit or people got tired of waiting. Been hopping between games with ~2 people in queue

 

[cavedog]

That's it folks. No more spots available...

 

[tm458]

That's it folks. No more spots available...

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People def making use of them, had like 30 people in front of me in queue, at least it "only" took 14 minutes to get into a game.
Kudos to Rain for not selling extra subscriptions that don't exist, unlike the others..