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You're probably wrong. I remember e-commerces trying to quantify how many millions of dollars they would lose when clicking would take too much time on their we

by baby 4y ago

You're probably wrong. I remember e-commerces trying to quantify how many millions of dollars they would lose when clicking would take too much time on their websites. EDIT: things like https://www.fastcompany.com/1825005/how-one-second-could-cost-amazon-16-billion-sales https://www.fastcompany.com/1825005/how-one-second-could-cos... > Amazon’s calculated that a page load slowdown of just one second could cost it $1.6 billion in sales each year. Google has calculated that by slowing its search results by just four tenths of a second they could lose 8 million searches per day

asdff 4y ago
That's ecommerce. This is a video game and a unique one at that, so there are other factors at play. I don't think many people go "game took forever to load, guess I'll play for less time then." There could even be a bullwhip effect, a long load time might make you want to stay playing for a longer period of time.
- ungamedplayer 4y ago
  > I don't think many people go "game took forever to load, guess I'll play for less time then." Ive quit some online games that take too long to load. Matchmaking times that are too long make me quit games.
- highstep 4y ago
  the load times were soooooo bad. Insultingly bad. It doesnt seem like you understand the true extent to how horrible rockstar managed this issue. I definitely quit playing for exactly this reason, even at the expense of spending less time with a good friend who i played with. Rockstar is a garbage disrespectful company for allowing this to go on for so long.
- baby 4y ago
  From personal experience I can't disagree more with you. I tend to play video games that have less loading time and tutorials because I just don't have the time to play and when I want to play I don't want to sit and wait for what will be mostly a 10-20min session.

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You're probably wrong. I remember e-commerces trying to quantify how many millions of dollars they would lose when clicking would take too much time on their we

by baby 4y ago

asdff 4y ago
That's ecommerce. This is a video game and a unique one at that, so there are other factors at play. I don't think many people go "game took forever to load, guess I'll play for less time then." There could even be a bullwhip effect, a long load time might make you want to stay playing for a longer period of time.
- ungamedplayer 4y ago
  > I don't think many people go "game took forever to load, guess I'll play for less time then." Ive quit some online games that take too long to load. Matchmaking times that are too long make me quit games.
- highstep 4y ago
  the load times were soooooo bad. Insultingly bad. It doesnt seem like you understand the true extent to how horrible rockstar managed this issue. I definitely quit playing for exactly this reason, even at the expense of spending less time with a good friend who i played with. Rockstar is a garbage disrespectful company for allowing this to go on for so long.
- baby 4y ago
  From personal experience I can't disagree more with you. I tend to play video games that have less loading time and tutorials because I just don't have the time to play and when I want to play I don't want to sit and wait for what will be mostly a 10-20min session.