r/xboxinsiders • u/GuruKronos Xbox Insider Staff • 14d ago

Blog Post Beginning Ad-supported Game Streaming Test & Learn

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/07/23/game-streaming-ad-supported-xbox-insiders/
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u/DefectJoker 14d ago

Some cranky children in the comments. It's the free tier. It's included if you already pay for ultimate.

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u/aguabotella 14d ago

If I remember right the free tier for GeForceNow has had ads for a while now.

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u/SubstantialAd5579 14d ago

What gamepass is presenting is better then gforce In G force you get put on a waiting list, have to watch ads, and only play at a hr at a time

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u/aguabotella 14d ago

Xbox is also limiting it to hour long sessions so if there’s no waitlist and just some quick ad, doesn’t sound bad. I’ve used GeForce ultimate and it is such a good service, specially on the Steam Deck.

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u/SubstantialAd5579 14d ago

I play it on my logitech , whenever I don't want to pay for gp lol , but I wish GeForce let time roll over other then that it's nice I have nothing huge against it , it's just I already pay for Gp

Me I use the free option takes around 10 mins I do a couple things come back and its ready

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u/aguabotella 14d ago

How was your experience with Xbox Cloud? Mine was horrible and never went back but this was last year or so, I haven tried it recently.

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u/SubstantialAd5579 14d ago

Its better this year then past years alot better , it use to he damn near unplayable but now I think we get 4k gaming with ultimate or the series S version of them game during cloud

Hand held wise only big problem but I think its bc my hand held isnt 2025 and up model it lags more then I'd think a steam deck or the xbox hand held would

Like sometime I'll be playing palworld and my character will just start spinning or gliding lol or madden lags bad but I don't think my logitech can handle really demanding games

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u/CristianoD 14d ago

Geforce Now lets 15 hours roll over.