Red Dead Redemption 3 will follow a solitary Stadia fan as he roams from town to town in search of those that pulled the plug on Stadia.
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
#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s 6.7h a day
I know people that read that much but we don't go around telling bookworms they're addicts. It's up to each person to decide where the line is for them, where a satisfying hobby becomes a destructive habit. If someone has no desire to form external relationships and they're completely content with their life, good for them for figuring things out. I'm not going to impose my arbitrary rules on them. I love RDR2 and pl…
I know a lot of people who often, like maybe several days a month, will read that much. I don't know anyone who reads every day for >2 years, >6h a day unless it's (part of) their job.
Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer
#193Although 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…
> 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 community has a real tendency towards self-righteousness that is beginning to get on my nerves. You don't know anything about this person. Even if it's a truly unhealthy habit they have, that's none of our business.
Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer
#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
Stadia doesn't go through Rockstar Launcher. Stadia itself is the platform here, Google required custom-rebuilt versions of all these games for linux and for the stadia environment.
Yikes. If Google required custom builds of games, it seems like they ignored a lot of what's happening in the rest of the industry. Proton is free, open-source, and strives for compatibility with Windows games. Could have used that. They still get vendor lock-in either way (because you have to stream from _somewhere_) so making it worse in this fashion doesn't achieve any particular goal that I can see.
> so making it worse in this fashion doesn't achieve any particular goal that I can see.
I can see at least three goals it achieves:
1. It helped to establish the superiority of Google engineering (in the minds of Google engineers), e.g. "We can do it better because we're Google."
2. It helped somebody (or multiple somebodies) in Google get promoted.
3. It signaled to the market that even as a new entry into the gaming market that Google has a big stick to wield and publishers/developers will have to bend to their will, and /will/ do it.
Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer
#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Although 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 It has no merit. Do you look at your hobbies as wasting your life? I certainty don't. My alone time playing video games is just as important to me as when I'm going hiking or camping with friends.
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.]
Have you considered that some people would prefer to spend more time in the digital world than the real world?
Why do you think there is so much investment into the metaverse?
Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer
#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
Stadia doesn't go through Rockstar Launcher. Stadia itself is the platform here, Google required custom-rebuilt versions of all these games for linux and for the stadia environment.
Yikes. If Google required custom builds of games, it seems like they ignored a lot of what's happening in the rest of the industry. Proton is free, open-source, and strives for compatibility with Windows games. Could have used that. They still get vendor lock-in either way (because you have to stream from _somewhere_) so making it worse in this fashion doesn't achieve any particular goal that I can see.
Was Proton viable back when Stadia was built?
Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer
#197Can 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?
It’s all explained in the article
Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer
#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
It has some merit. When Call of Duty 4 came out on XBox 360, I was completely addicted to it. Other than sporadically playing video games with my children, I haven't played regularly since I was a kid. But that's me. I wouldn't presume to know best for anyone else - why do you think your experience is applicable to others? Is someone binge watching Netflix really better for you than playing video games? Death scrolli…
At some point you have to step out of the "mind your own business" box and be a little bit judgemental. Just a little bit. Otherwise, how can we ever say we have any concern for others? You can go too far with it. Very easily! But "Meh, you do you" is just as destructive.
I'm not sure if you meant to reply to someone else because my main point was not "meh, you do you" but rather that there is a lot of judgement regarding video games but not in other things that are arguably even more harmful.
Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer
#199They deserve it for supporting shit like Stadia. It's one rare case where smug, annoying assholes who are cheerleading the destruction of personal computing (and, if you pay attention, the slow abolition of private property) are facing some negative consequences.
I used to think that politely warning people about obvious consequences of their bad decisions it a reasonable way to go. That if you are eloquent enough and logical enough they will see the dangers. ("If you use this service right now, Google will control your games in the future.") That was a naive and stupid view. Most people have no imagination whatsoever. They are physically incapable of imagining a shitty situation directly caused by their own decisions and actions. They need a real-life example. Well, this is it.
Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer
#200Earlier 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.]
That's pretty easy to define. An addiction is something that you want or feel you should quit or tone down, but don't have the self discipline to do. A hobby, even an obsession, is not an addiction. And similarly it's entirely possible to become addicted to "productive" things, like work. The Bezos-like individuals who have no lack of money yet still work relentlessly, even to the detriment of the other factors in th…
I think that's not the best definition of an addiction. Plenty of people that smoke aren't actively trying to quit or even want to quit, but they are very clearly addicted to nicotine.
It's the reason people have interventions: for a person addicted to something, it can be hard to actually admit that they're addicted to something. That should qualify, even if that person won't admit that their behavior has become a problem.