Can someone explain how you play rdr2 for 6k hours? what exactly is he losing in game when stadia shuts down? so if he had played rdr2 on his pc, then stadia shutdown wouldn't affect him at all right?
Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer
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Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
At what point does a hobby turn into an addition? People who have spent 6k hours in a casino, for example, would probably be happier if they could figure out why they're doing it, and find a more productive way to address that need. Same might be true of someone who has spent 6k hours in a single video game. [I've spent 450 hours in Factorio, but stopped soon after my partner nick named it Divorcio.]
12 work-days of a hobby and your partner labels it an addiction thats divorce worthy? sounds pretty terrible. I strongly suspect he/she is probably spending atleast as much time on his/her hobby.
How do you figure 450hrs is only 12 working days??? It’s already 18 actual days.
After a normal work day, after all my daily chores are done, gone to the gym and other things to take care of myself, I have maybe 2-3 hrs of free time. If we’re generous and say 3 hrs, that’s 150 days straight of spending your free time on a game and not your partner.
Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's 4 hours a day for 4 years. That could breakdown to a couple of hours a night and full days on weekends. Millions of people spend just as much time watching TV, or reading, or playing Call of Duty. That's nothing particularly unusual or special about that amount of time. Back in the early days of World of Warcraft people would have seen 4 hours a night as light, casual gaming. :)
Stadia launched in November 2019, so not even 3 years ago.
That's 1,064 days ago, so it's 5.5 hours a day instead of 4. That still sounds pretty reasonable to me.
Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer
#84Although the angle of: Losing his characters is the best thing that's happening for him due to wasting a very significant part of his life in video games has some merit (but could be worded differently), this is yet another example on why you shouldn't depend on these platforms for anything of value, specially Google. The immense pressure to transform/re-frame everything as a service, aka: "You'll own nothing and be…
I think social gaming can have a lot of personal value (especially with the last 3 years being pandemic years). But RDO arguably is showing signs of a sunsetting service, so maybe it's best that this painful loss happen sooner than a few years later.
Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
At what point does a hobby turn into an addition? People who have spent 6k hours in a casino, for example, would probably be happier if they could figure out why they're doing it, and find a more productive way to address that need. Same might be true of someone who has spent 6k hours in a single video game. [I've spent 450 hours in Factorio, but stopped soon after my partner nick named it Divorcio.]
> At what point does a hobby turn into an addition? Why should something that unstresses, revitalizes and inspires you should be an addition. With that logic, food is an addiction. Sleep. Rest. Even poetry and art.
Like most things, the dose makes the poison. A little Red Dead is probably great, too much probably bad. Gambling, food, sleep all fall into similar U shaped curves.
Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can't measure an addiction just by total hours invested in something. That equals 2.4hrs/day, 16hrs/week since the game was released, which might be more indicative but still depends on the reset of their life obligations and what else they seek value from.
Yeah but isn't that a single player game ? Even if it had 100+ hours of gameplay, you'd have to repeat that so many times to get to 6000 hours Very different from someone that plays video games a few hours every day
He mentions in a followup tweet (to someone recommending using Google Takeout to retrieve his save file) that he doesn't play story mode, so I assume there is a multiplayer mode.
Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer
#87Although the angle of: Losing his characters is the best thing that's happening for him due to wasting a very significant part of his life in video games has some merit (but could be worded differently), this is yet another example on why you shouldn't depend on these platforms for anything of value, specially Google. The immense pressure to transform/re-frame everything as a service, aka: "You'll own nothing and be…
> due to wasting a very significant part of his life in video games He’s a streamer. He makes a living from playing that game. What’s your job? Let’s compare total value add.
Just checked his channel and a few hundred views on each video. Can one really make a living off that?
Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer
#88I hadn't even considered this as a consequence of Stadia shutting down. I naively thought, "Well, everyone is getting refunded for everything they spent, so it's fine." Clearly I was wrong. Of course there are folks that have actual game saves that they're heavily invested in on the platform that aren't easily portable. I feel sorry for this person and hope that Google and its partners like Rockstar work together to…
I think Google's biggest flaw in this regard is their own denial of the pattern of shutting things down. If they just acknowledge that's how things go, they can prepare better off-ramps for people who adopted their product. Doing this to your users is a slap in the face because it shows no gratitude for the fact that those people took a chance on your product. They believed in it, and it's not their fault your projec…
> I was not a Stadia user, but events like this reinforce my motivation to drop all the Google products I possibly can before they drop me.
Ditto. Im literally considering phasing my personal gmail out to a domain that I own...
Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can't measure an addiction just by total hours invested in something. That equals 2.4hrs/day, 16hrs/week since the game was released, which might be more indicative but still depends on the reset of their life obligations and what else they seek value from.
Yeah but isn't that a single player game ? Even if it had 100+ hours of gameplay, you'd have to repeat that so many times to get to 6000 hours Very different from someone that plays video games a few hours every day
Clearly you haven't read the article. It specifically mentions they don't play story mode (single player).
Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer
#90For everyone having opinions about how many hours this person has spent playing RDR2, you should probably note that he's an RDR2 Youtube and Twitch content creator/streamer. So at face value, it has been his job for the last 2.5 years.