Great news 🙏 Now our sad bunch of Stadia fans will have some alternative.
You are correct!
I tried out the free GFN account last night, and must say it looked great and ran incredible well. The only caveat was when I first loaded, it took some time to render all the environment in the Druid Grove. For a few minutes I was staring through the ground, out into the sea...no buildings or wooden platform, etc. Then everything popped in place and it was fine.
I'm hoping the paid subscription service will run a bit smoother right off the bat. Will find that out tonight ;-)
Edit,
Not that it matters, but I still miss the one button press launching from my Stadia controller. Sit down, press a button, TV turns on, Stadia launches, press play on BG3 and away we went.
It's kind of a pain to have to log in to GFN or Boosteroid, then log in to Steam, then log in to Larian, then wait for all the Steam windows to finish, etc. Each and every time since it's a new computer you're logging in with every time.
It would be really cool if Steam ran a GFN type service.
But it is nice to be able to play without a gaming rig.