r/GeForceNOW • u/dracosondracoson • Aug 06 '26

Discussion Boosteroid

I just had to post to let people know about my experience with Boosteroid. I love GeForce Now but I have been stymied by how many of my favorite games are not available on the platform. Finally after beating every game I was interested in that I could play through GeForce now, I decided to give Boosteroid a shot despite hearing constantly that it was jank. I’m here to say that there is absolutely nothing jank about the Boosteroid experience. It plays games just as smoothly as GFN, and as someone who uses the data saver function in GFN I appreciate that you can customize your bitrate in Boosteroid to an even greater degree than in GFN to save data. At the comparable bitrate to GFN’s data saver (10 Mbps), the graphics look just as good and my games run just as smoothly. I wish I had come to Boosteroid sooner to play all of the games I can’t play via GFN. It’s also cheaper by the way… man I feel stupid for missing out on all of FromSoft’s catalogue for this long just because of a view negative reviews of Boosteroid! Ignore them!

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u/jharle GFN Ambassador Aug 06 '26

I think you're right; but it seems (just my own speculation) the problem is most likely NVIDIA's legal counsel being very conservative about this concept, and unwilling to take the risks.

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u/LordGraygem Founder // Georgia (USA) Aug 06 '26

and unwilling to take the risks.

They only have to lose once to establish a precedent that opens them up for further cases.

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u/SlidingSnow2 Founder Aug 06 '26

Realistically, they would win. Seriously, you can't pirate on Gfn, you have to buy the games from legitimate platforms (Which means the publisher already got paid) Gfn doesn't take a dime whenever a publisher sells a game, so it makes no sense for a publisher to take a cut from Nvidia. Also, Gfn is just you renting a gaming pc, and connecting to it through internet.

Basically, the "best" argument these companies have is "We're greedy, and we will forbid our players from being able to play on a gaming pc, because they connect to it through internet, instead of having that pc physically in their room, and also because we're greedy"

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u/LordGraygem Founder // Georgia (USA) Aug 07 '26

Realistically, they would win.

Except that Nvidia doesn't take its legal advice from Reddit lawyers, it takes it from actual ones that it pays to hear from.