Nvidia would have said GeForce Now Founders who will delay their initial billing payment date until June.
An apparent email sent to the Founders was posted on the ResetEra forums, where Nvidia apparently said, "As you can imagine, we are experiencing a substantial increase in the number of GeForce Now players and their amount of playtime."
“While the service continues to grow, we have decided to take this opportunity to show our appreciation to our first founding members, and we will not begin billing until June 2020. Their first collection date has been extended. See account.nvidia.com for more information. Stay safe and happy playing. "
Assuming this is real, it is a nice gesture on the part of Nvidia, but the reasoning behind this is unclear. It could simply be a gesture of goodwill in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, with Nvidia following in the footsteps of people like Sony, which has been offering free games to its more than 100 million PlayStation 4 users.
We reached out to Nvidia for feedback and will update this article as soon as we hear anything official.
Is this triage?
The move could also be in response to the lackluster backlash that the GeForce Now service has received so far. Since the streaming service was first launched in February this year, major publishers, including Activision-Blizzard and Bethesda have been removing their gaming libraries.
This is believed to be due to the fact that there was no trade agreement between Nvidia and the publishers when GeForce Now came out of its free closed beta.
Things got worse for Nvidia this week, with Warner Bros and Xbox Games Studios announcing that they were also leaving the service. This means that early GeForce Now users have lost access to Gears 5, Halo: The Master Chief Collection, and the Mortal Kombat series.
With this in mind, Nvidia's apparent gesture of goodwill could be an attempt to placate early GeForce Now subscribers as it tries to beef up the service's shrinking game library.
In a blog post this week, the company said, "It is working with digital game stores so publishers can tag their games for streaming on GeForce Now, just when they publish a game," adding that this will help it "bring more games to library, faster, in addition to providing a more stable catalog. "