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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 f

by cruano 4y ago

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

thefreeman 4y ago
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.
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cassianoleal 4y ago
Clearly you haven't read the article. It specifically mentions they don't play story mode (single player).
williamscales 4y ago
No, there is very much an online multiplayer side to the game
nvrspyx 4y ago
The person is quoted in the article as saying they don't play story mode and that Google Takeout wouldn't work for transferring their game save to PC as a result. This means that they've been playing the online component, Red Dead Online.
- branon 4y ago
  Don't you sign into Rockstar Launcher / Social Club with a Rockstar account in order to play online? Can he not just log into the same game, same launcher, same account on PC and pick up where he left off? I've played RDR2 singleplayer and I get a prompt about cloud saves every time I launch the game on a new PC. If he's playing multiplayer, this should be even easier. Rockstar should have the savedata.
  - paulmd 4y ago
    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.
    - branon 4y ago
      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.
      - tristor 4y ago
        > 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.
      - bhaney 4y ago
        Was Proton viable back when Stadia was built?
      - sofixa 4y ago
        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.
        awill 4y ago
imdsm 4y ago
This is entirely dependent on the person. Some people have to have something new every single day, and some people like to enjoy the same stuff. Some people try new beers every time they go out, and some people drink their favourite. Years back, I spent roughly 20,000 hours in WoW, starting 2006 and the last time I played, a year or two ago. 20,000 hours doing the same stuff, one could argue, but those hours have brought me joy, relaxation, excitement, and friendship. Downtime is important — how you choose to decompress is up to you, but it's important, especially with high stress or high pressure jobs. Some months you'll be putting in 80 hours a week, weekends included, and other times you'll lower it, to take a bit of a breather, 40 hours a week with some games or TV. We shouldn't be calling people addicts because they go fishing every Sunday, or watch TV every evening, or, play RDR2 every day.
- Slava_Propanei 4y ago
- P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
  As someone who ran a raiding group for over 4 years in WoW, it's stimulating in a whole host of ways, including making real friends.
  - imdsm 4y ago
    People under-estimate the effort that took. I ran guilds & raids for years, and getting 25-50 people to be motivated, on time, follow doctrine, train, perform, and be available over a schedule, without any pay, that takes something that a lot of companies could do with having.

by cruano 4y ago

thefreeman 4y ago

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.

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cassianoleal 4y ago

Clearly you haven't read the article. It specifically mentions they don't play story mode (single player).

williamscales 4y ago

No, there is very much an online multiplayer side to the game

nvrspyx 4y ago

The person is quoted in the article as saying they don't play story mode and that Google Takeout wouldn't work for transferring their game save to PC as a result. This means that they've been playing the online component, Red Dead Online.

branon 4y ago
Don't you sign into Rockstar Launcher / Social Club with a Rockstar account in order to play online? Can he not just log into the same game, same launcher, same account on PC and pick up where he left off? I've played RDR2 singleplayer and I get a prompt about cloud saves every time I launch the game on a new PC. If he's playing multiplayer, this should be even easier. Rockstar should have the savedata.
- paulmd 4y ago
  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.
  - branon 4y ago
    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.
    - tristor 4y ago
      > 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.
    - bhaney 4y ago
      Was Proton viable back when Stadia was built?
    - sofixa 4y ago
      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.
      - awill 4y ago

imdsm 4y ago

This is entirely dependent on the person. Some people have to have something new every single day, and some people like to enjoy the same stuff. Some people try new beers every time they go out, and some people drink their favourite. Years back, I spent roughly 20,000 hours in WoW, starting 2006 and the last time I played, a year or two ago. 20,000 hours doing the same stuff, one could argue, but those hours have brought me joy, relaxation, excitement, and friendship. Downtime is important — how you choose to decompress is up to you, but it's important, especially with high stress or high pressure jobs. Some months you'll be putting in 80 hours a week, weekends included, and other times you'll lower it, to take a bit of a breather, 40 hours a week with some games or TV. We shouldn't be calling people addicts because they go fishing every Sunday, or watch TV every evening, or, play RDR2 every day.

Slava_Propanei 4y ago
P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
As someone who ran a raiding group for over 4 years in WoW, it's stimulating in a whole host of ways, including making real friends.
- imdsm 4y ago
  People under-estimate the effort that took. I ran guilds & raids for years, and getting 25-50 people to be motivated, on time, follow doctrine, train, perform, and be available over a schedule, without any pay, that takes something that a lot of companies could do with having.