Nvidia has reportedly told the GeForce Now founders that they will see their original payment date pushed back to June. An apparent email to the founders was posted on the ResetEra forums, where Nvidia apparently said: "As you can imagine, we are seeing a substantial increase in GeForce Now player numbers and game time." "As the service continues to grow, we've decided to take this opportunity to show our appreciation to our early founding members, and we won't start billing until June 2020. Your first billing date has been extended. See account.nvidia.com for learn more. Stay safe and happy to play." Assuming this is real, it's a good move on Nvidia's part, but the reasoning behind it is unclear. It could just be a goodwill gesture after the Covid-19 pandemic, Nvidia following in Sony's footsteps, offering free games to its 100 million PlayStation 4 and more users. We've reached out to Nvidia for comment and will update this article as soon as we hear anything official.
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The move could also respond to GeForce Now's lackluster response to date. Since the streaming service launched in February of this year, major publishers including Activision-Blizzard and Bethesda have removed their game libraries. This is believed to be due to the fact that there was no commercial agreement between Nvidia and the publishers when GeForce Now left its closed beta free. Things got worse for Nvidia this week, with Warner Bros and Xbox Games Studios announcing that they are leaving the service as well. This means that early adopters of GeForce Now lost access to Gears 5, Halo: The Master Chief Collection, and the Mortal Kombat series. With this in mind, Nvidia's apparent goodwill gesture could be an attempt to appease early GeForce Now subscribers while trying to bolster the service's dwindling library of games. In a blog post this week, the company said it "is working with digital game stores so that publishers can tag their games for streaming on GeForce Now, right when they publish a game," adding that it would help it "bring more games to the library, faster and provide a more stable catalog". "