The whole reason they want to move us from ownership to streaming is because it keeps the control on their side and they'll converge on enshittification every time.
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Their official reason why they cap it, also doesn't make sense to me. If a low number of gamer use more than 100 hours, they could easily afford this by the high amount of people not gaming that much. It looks like the first step to pay per hour now, to maximize profit.
I guess the service is dying, the move seems like business oriented, next step would be to reduce catalog and finally cancellation.
I suspect (without any evidence) that these services were designed to be low commitment practice run for graphics cards as an enterprise service. Let them build up tools, expertise and infrastructure before signing any long term contracts
Very true, the prices of the Nvidia cards are becoming inaccessible, I'm glad that the SteamDeck triggered an interest of mobile PC gaming because many games are now considering and ensuring playability in low end HW.