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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

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Post by svaldez »

nvrspyx wrote: post #112
dmix wrote: post #55

Earlier 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.

RDR2 was released on Stadia on November 19, 2019, which was 1046 days ago. 5,907 hours over 1046 days is around 5.65hrs/day, 39.55hrs/week.

Wow, that's like a full-time job's worth of time, if you exclude weekends.

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Post by Closi »

BrainVirus wrote: post #199

They 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 an…

This makes a whole lot of negative assumptions about someone who I assume you have never met.

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Post by fbanon »

Entinel wrote: post #30
PedroBatista wrote: post #24

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 (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…

> 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.

Case in point: don't choose a hobby that can be taken away from you on the whims of some dickhead Google exec.

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Post by aequitas »

This problem is already leaking into the world of physical consoles. Afaik the only (legal) way to backup your savegame data on a Nintendo Switch is to transfer it directly to another Switch (and deleting it from the first) or get an online account (which was only available 1,5 years after the Switch launched). No saves can be stored on cartridges or the SD card. So if your Switch goes broken for some reason and you didn't want to pay for online backups every month your out of luck.

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Post by jotm »

PedroBatista wrote: post #24

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 (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…

Well, many games won't work when the servers go down so... Just pirate them :D

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Post by jacobwilliamroy »

PedroBatista wrote: post #24

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 (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 do my hobbies because if I dont I'll fill the time by smoking cigarettes which I am really trying hard not to do. I specifically engage in pointless pastimes because they have better health outcomes than spending an equivalent amount of time smoking tobacco on the porch.

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Post by lawn »

pas wrote: post #174
AyyWS wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for the context. Imagine being criticized for spending 6000 hours in Visual Studio.

But why would anyone... I mean at that point learning emacs might be actually worth it, no?

At this point I think it's more worth to learn Vim.

(Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

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Post by sofixa »

branon wrote: post #180
paulmd wrote: post #151

Earlier 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.

Stadia was released in 2019, while Proton came out in Alpha in mid-2018. It's highly unlikely it was available to Google when they started developing Stadia.

Furthermore, controlling the full platform has enormous advantages in terms of scalability, low-latency streaming and control.

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Post by sn41 »

pas wrote: post #174
AyyWS wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for the context. Imagine being criticized for spending 6000 hours in Visual Studio.

But why would anyone... I mean at that point learning emacs might be actually worth it, no?

Hmm... I might have spent 6000 hours on Emacs. It is a slightly illuminating experience, I'll grudgingly admit!

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Post by mikepurvis »

nsxwolf wrote: post #166
300bps wrote: post #156

Earlier 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.

It depends on the nature of the relationship. The obvious one is parent-child, that parents get to have quite a lot to say about where and what their young ones spend time on, and with whom. Though part of growing up is pushing away a good deal of that influence, and then I guess for some, inviting a bunch of it back in if the relationship successfully transitions to a healthy adult-adult one.

But I don't think it really stops there— I would hope that my spouse, siblings, and close friends would feel comfortable enough speaking into my situation if they observed me falling into a pattern of behaviour that looked to be self-destructive. We need checks and balances in our lives other than the just the extreme end of having to stage an intervention when someone's bad enough that they're hitting rock bottom.

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