veterangamerUK
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With that number of hours I doubt he's ever been outside. Must be fucking albino by now
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Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with nearly 6,000 hours on Stadia begs Rockstar for character transfer
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dDoc
Member
He lost out on the best bit of RDR2.
Captain Toad
Banned
RDR2 isn't dying though.
When FFXI support ended for PS2/360, I played my same character on PC. Same with FFXIV going from PS3 to PS4.
My FFXI character, by the way, is 20 years old and still living on the servers.
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SportsFan581
Member
Imagine gaming on Stadia for almost 6000 hours.
What % of total Stadia playtime do you figure he represents, 25%?
And to think I'm always a bit embarrassed seeing that 600+ hours I spent in KSP. At least there is always this guy. In what 2.5 - 3 years of the game being on Stadia he managed to spend nearly a 3rd of that time in game.
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UnravelKatharsis
Member
How is a game streaming service shutting down with a game that is still playable on all other platforms it was released on different from an mmo dying?
I can't think of anything....Red Dead Online is still up and running. It’s just a matter of platforms being segregated. My Ultima Online character is over two decades old and I could login and play right now if I wanted. It’s likely FFXIV and WoW both will also endure for the foreseeable future. We live in strange times.
RDO’s on minimal life support though. I had my fun with it, but I am baffled that anyone could still find stuff to do in there after 6K hours. Last serious update Rockstar gave it was last Halloween. Not even kidding. It’s been almost a year. Doesn’t pull in the GTAO money, so I guess that’s that.
TheInfamousKira
Reseterror Resettler
What the fuck do you even DO for 5 thousand hours in RDR2?
Gamerguy84
Member
Lol damn some of ya are pretty hateful.
I'm following this story now because it's interesting to see what Rstar does here. If they do it for him every single person who's spent an hour on stadia is going to ask and expect it.
At the same time I hope they do. They have more money than they know what to do with and could devote a small team, put a form online, and do this for people easily for some positive PR.
I'm following this story now because it's interesting to see what Rstar does here. If they do it for him every single person who's spent an hour on stadia is going to ask and expect it.
At the same time I hope they do. They have more money than they know what to do with and could devote a small team, put a form online, and do this for people easily for some positive PR.
AGRacing
Member
He may be the reason why they needed to shut the whole thing down.
Portugeezer
Member
Isn't stadia just the PC version? I'm sure Rockstar can flick some switches and resolve this.
But they won't, because barely anyone plays stadia version.
But they won't, because barely anyone plays stadia version.
fuck_diggity_cunt_ingdon
Banned
Haven’t touched a rockstar game in ages but aren’t they fairly behind the times when it comes to cross progression, cross play, etc?
RavageX
Member
Nah, this dude(and others like him) need to just accept the loss and see it as a lesson learned. You take a risk on a new platform, you can't really be surprised. You see how much support Stadia was getting, you saw how focused Rockstar was on keeping RDR Online updated compared to GTA....what did you think would happen?
What do you think is going to happen when other online games go away? What about those people that were playing...what was it? Godfall? Should I be upset that my Elder Scrolls online could go away one day? Or that my City of Heroes characters are only alive through images? Be happy with the time you had with the game/platform and move on.
What do you think is going to happen when other online games go away? What about those people that were playing...what was it? Godfall? Should I be upset that my Elder Scrolls online could go away one day? Or that my City of Heroes characters are only alive through images? Be happy with the time you had with the game/platform and move on.
Portugeezer
Member
I agree, minus the harsh words
But my guy had the means to play RDR2 another way (hence why he wants save transfer), but decided to opt for the stadia version of a game... I simply...
ReBurn
Gold Member
So when Read Dead Online eventually shuts down how will owning a disc allow people to keep playing? This is not a digital/cloud issue. It's a Stadia business model issue.
The problem with Stadia was that the only way to access the content you paid for was through streaming. Paying to purchase games only playable by streaming was never a good idea and people who did it should have seen this coming. Streaming itself Is fine as long as you still have the option to install and play your games locally.
CherryFalls
Banned
Well according to their shut down announcement ''it hasn't gained the traction with users that we expected. so we’ve made the difficult decision to begin winding down our Stadia streaming service''
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Rest
All these years later I still chuckle at what a fucking moron that guy is.
Some of us don't play online. I don't want anything saved to the cloud where I can't get to it when I don't have good internet access.
Jack Videogames
Member
clarky
Gold Member
What? Cross save should be standard these days and is a great feature when implemented.
Its great that i can play Destiny or COD on the PS5 then continue on my laptop at work, same for COD. And have you heard of play anywhere? why should i need to buy exactly the same game on pc when i own it on PlayStation? the difference in code is minimal these days with consoles being mostly pcs in a box. If a game plays on both xbox and pc but not PlayStation i know which one im buying.
Get with the times old man.
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Jack Videogames
Member
Yeah, if I have to decide to buy a game on Steam or PS5, I will get it on Steam, just because of being able to access cloud saves with SteamDeck. I have refunded games in the past because of the lack of cloud/cross saves.
Buggy Loop
Member
I mean.. did he leave the game ON all day all week all month just to have a scenery generator in his home? Can't possibly really put 6k hours into this game and still have a life.
I imagine Rockstar's answer
I imagine Rockstar's answer
AtomicStarving
Member
"YouTube/TikTok Creator for RedDeadOnline on Stadia."
Impotaku
Member
There’s a life lesson in there about not relying on a streaming platform. if he’s really that beat up about it just pick a platform that still has it and start again if he’s really that much of a fan to play that many hours he can happily go through all the story & missions again.
tomato shrub
Member
I laughed at the title. I know a guy who kept spamming me Stadia news over the years, as if I (or anyone else) cared.
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Nitty_Grimes
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
Genuinely feel for this person. But nothing last forever. He could have been playing GTA III on PS2 for example - cant carry your save.
DaleinCalgary
Gold Member
R* probably shouldn't do it if it forces him to go outside.
Kenneth Haight
Gold Member
lol, imagine promoting proudly that you’re a millionaire…… in a virtual cowboy world
Mibu no ookami
Demoted Member® Pro™
Maybe when you're on your laptop at work... you should... I don't know.... be working?
If you want to play anywhere, you invest in an ecosystem that supports that i.e. PC and Steam Deck. The more you invest in that because of that and market research will reflect that and the console manufacturers will follow suit.
Right now Sony and Microsoft have pushed remote play and consumers need to show them whether that is a value add or not.
You said it yourself. You bought it on PlayStation, not PC. That's like saying, hey movie theater, I paid for a ticket to see a movie, so I should be able to watch this movie as many times as I want. Hell, it was for theater 11, so I should have lifetime use of theater 11 regardless of the movie we're talking about. That's silly and entitled.
The difference in code may not be as substantial as it once was, but the number of people involved in the primary project let alone cross-platform projects is significant and everyone wants annual pay raises of at least 3%. How do you expect publishers and manufacturers to keep up with that without some element of passing it on to the consumer? The last thing we need is niche requests driving up the cost of games.
wvnative
Member
I'm like the most hardcore RDO fan out there, and I'm done with it. No point with no new content being made, one of my buddies and I still log in like, twice a month to horse around (heh) but that's it. No idea what this fool is doing.
Mibu no ookami
Demoted Member® Pro™
I mean.. did he leave the game ON all day all week all month just to have a scenery generator in his home? Can't possibly really put 6k hours into this game and still have a life.
I imagine Rockstar's answer
The game came out in 2019 on Stadia.
There have been 1,047 days since the release of the game.
That means on average he plays the game 5.7 hours per day.
That's certainly excessive and suggests some element of wallpapering.
clarky
Gold Member
I work away from home for months at a time. Thanks for the concern about my work output though ill let the boss know. Wait a minute i am the boss.
Your analogy about cinemas really doesn't make any sense. its a completely different form of media sold in a completely different way. We where talking about cross save and in turn cross buy, both of which already happen. Going to the movies relates to this how?
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Fess
Member
I don’t play online but I have internet. Local saves can be combined with automatically uploaded saves to the cloud when you get access to the internet, then they can be downloaded to another device if they see that the cloud save is newer. Works perfectly with Steam Deck and PC. I don’t see why it can’t work with Xbox and Steam, they just need to use the same save info and convert the files if they use different file systems.
ZoukGalaxy
Member
ReBurn
Gold Member
It works this way on Xbox. Saves sync automatically across devices via the cloud and it gives you the choice of which version you want to keep if they get out of sync. When I was playing Mass Effect Legendary Edition I could be playing downstairs on one console and by the time I got upstairs to continue playing my progress was already synced to the other console.
M1chl
Currently Gif and Meme Champion
Cloud streaming should always be just an addition, to play your games (and you saves) when you are on trip or shit like that. Never main "system" for games.
RaySoft
Member
Without reading the whole thread, I'm guessing the sentiment here is that unless Google fixes it, no-one will. (and we all know THAT is a death sentence)
I feel sorry for him. Someone should step up out of bounds here fixing the unfixable.
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clarky
Gold Member
Why would anyone give a shit about the amount of hour they've put into RDR2? im not super familiar with it as i dropped it half way through as i found it boring. Its a single player game no? surely once youve done everything what else are you doing in the game?
An RPG i could understand but this?
An RPG i could understand but this?
Fess
Member
Yeah but that only work when you’re on Microsoft’s platforms. Same as with Steam Deck and Steam.
What we need is cloud saves that sync on all platforms where you have access to the game. Start on XSX, continue on PS5, then on Steam, then on XSS, then PS4. Etc. Starting over just because you want to experience the game on another platform is so annoying.
Why didn’t I finish Horizon Zero Dawn on PC? Because I had already played 40 hours or so on PS4 and it sucked to start over from scratch, I dropped it fast. Even worse with RDR2. Finished it on XB1X, playtime counter says I played it for 0.7 hours on Steam…
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chromhound
Member
Perfect time to start over again
Victor Omega
Member
Any Math ppll here can calculate this per GB spent playing?
That... is what I'm curious about when it comes to Cloud gaming.
using data, regardless if its "'unlimited", to play a offline single player game just sound crazy?
That... is what I'm curious about when it comes to Cloud gaming.
using data, regardless if its "'unlimited", to play a offline single player game just sound crazy?
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DeepEnigma
Gold Member
I feel for him, but good luck.
R* can't even be fucked with a 60fps patch.
R* can't even be fucked with a 60fps patch.
