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Nvidia’s new streaming service GeForce Now has suffered another loss— this time it’s because the company didn’t ask Hinterlands Studio if it could put The Long Dark in the library (via PC Gamer).
Sorry to those who are disappointed you can no longer play #thelongdark on GeForce Now. Nvidia didn't ask for our permission to put the game on the platform so we asked them to remove it. Please take your complaints to them, not us. Devs should control where their games exist.
— Raphael van Lierop (@RaphLife) March 1, 2020
The Long Dark is a survival video game set in the Canadian wilderness, after a geomagnetic storm renders all technology across the world obsolete. The player is a stranded pilot who escapes from their wreckage, and must explore and forage to survive in the freezing temperatures and harsh surroundings. It’s a really good, really stylish survival game. Nvidia seems to think so, too, because it added it to the GeForce Now library so that its users could embark on their excursions into the snowy wastes. However, developer Hinterland Studios said it was blindsided by the addition, and asked Nvidia to take it out of its collection.
“Sorry to those who are disappointed you can no longer play #thelongdark on GeForce Now,” said creative director Raphael van Lierop. “Nvidia didn’t ask for our permission to put the game on the platform so we asked them to remove it. Please take your complaints to them, not us. Devs should control where their games exist.” Nvidia apologised to Hinterland Studio with a free graphics card, apparently.
Previously, Activision and Bethesda had pulled their games from GeForce Now, owing to a “misunderstanding.” The former was going to sign a commercial agreement with Nvidia before it would allow its games to be on GeForce Now. But, Nvidia thought Activision was content to share its games with the streaming service due to its participation in the beta test. Evidently, it got the wrong impression. And, the only Bethesda game to be found in GeForce Now’s library is Wolfenstein: Youngblood—the developer requested that the rest of its titles be taken down from the streaming service.
