14 DAY TRIAL // NVIDIA's GeForce Now exited beta about a week ago and one major publisher has just decided to remove all its games the cloud-streaming service – Activision Blizzard. Without any warning, all Activision Blizzard games from GeForce Now's library disappeared today.
If you've bought Overwatch or Call of Duty to play them on GeForce Now, you will no longer be able to do that, so you can either ask for a refund or try to upgrade your PC/Mac. NVIDIA issued a short statement regarding the removal of these games, but it doesn't shed any light on the reason it happened.
“As we take GeForce NOW to the next step in its evolution, we’ve worked with publishers to onboard a robust catalog of your PC games. This means continually adding new games, and on occasion, having to remove games – similar to other digital service providers. Per their request, please be advised Activision Blizzard games will be removed from the service. While unfortunate, we hope to work together with Activision Blizzard to reenable these games and more in the future. In addition to the hundreds of games currently supported, we have over 1,500 games that developers have asked to be on-boarded to the service. Look for weekly updates as to new games we are adding.”
Although this is 100% Activision Blizzard's fault, it's worth noting that this isn't the first publisher that had its games removed from GeForce Now. Last year, while the service was still in beta, CAPCOM, Square Enix and Bandai Namco had their games removed from the game streaming service.
Some of Bandai Namco's games are still supported by GeForce Now, such as SoulCalibur VI and the entire Dark Souls series, but CAPCOM and Square Enix decided to pull out their entire catalog from NVIDIA's recently launched service.
On the bright side, NVIDIA announced this week that four new games are now playable via GeForce Now: Days of War, Prison Architect, MechWarrior Online Solaris 7, and Araha: Curse of Yieun Island.