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The problem is that you have minimal control of your game. If Google bans your YouTube account b/c your video of you walking your dog recorded a restaurant playing a copyrighted song, then you could also lose your entire collection of games.

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GeForce Now lets you use your existing games, there is no way for them to make you lose your games.

By comparison, the Stadia model was broken from the start.

Looks like multiple games/developers have already been pulled off of the service and there's no shortage of people posting about being banned or locked out of their accounts. I'm sure the convenience is nice when it all works, but you have to give up a whole lot for that.

But if they do that, you can just continue playing on your own PC.

How is that any different than Steam? You’re arguing against DRM, not against cloud gaming

cloud gaming is just another form of DRM. Bad for all the same reasons plus some.

valve is a very, very, very different company

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