CD Projekt Red has been subject to a cyber attack and ransom demand

Re:CD Projekt Red has been subject to a cyber attack and ran... by pca006132 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:31AM (#26075862)

It seems to me that the trend in tech/games/media is about stimulating the reward system, requiring less attention span, and monetize from it. Social media recommendation systems, mobile games, competitive games that finish in half an hour, etc.

Alternative exists, but probably won't make that much money...

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Re:CD Projekt Red has been subject to a cyber attack and ran... by reader_mode on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:53AM (#26075990)

> requiring less attention span

How ? Competitive gaming requires intense uninterrupted focus for 30 min to 1 h periods (which is what got me out of it).

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Re:CD Projekt Red has been subject to a cyber attack and ran... by JauntyHatAngle on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @06:02AM (#26076060)

You're dead right, and it's a tangent but this is why rocket league is now the game for me. 7 minutes of gameplay at a time. I can fit that around my life.

CSGO? LoL? I play one game and 30-60 minutes of my day gone, half the time to a slow loss. I can't justify it as an adult steadily losing more and more of my free time anymore.

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Re:CD Projekt Red has been subject to a cyber attack and ran... by 2pEXgD0fZ5cF on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @06:49AM (#26076404)

> Competitive gaming requires intense uninterrupted focus for 30 min to 1 h periods

This is technically true, but in most team based multiplayer games you actually get much shorter focus intervals due to breaks and pauses like dying (time to respawn or end of round, which can take up to multiple minutes) or running to the action from spawn (games like Overwatch).

Also the team aspect hides much of it so a lot of players go "on autopilot" too in these games, you have to keep in mind that the far majority of players in the super popular games plays at a lower level.

Compared to this a game like Starcraft 2 (1on1 competitive) actually requires uninterrupted focus for a full game with basically no breaks or pauses, but 1v1 competitive multiplayer games are not as popular as team based games.

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Re:CD Projekt Red has been subject to a cyber attack and ran... by reader_mode on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @09:48PM (#26085251)

That's true but still doesn't back his argument that these games cater to short attention span people. People sink hours straight into these games.

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Re:CD Projekt Red has been subject to a cyber attack and ran... by Daho0n on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @07:46AM (#26076831)

Competitive games and Competitive gaming is not the same thing though. You can play competitive games without being a Competitive Gamer.

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Re:CD Projekt Red has been subject to a cyber attack and ran... by reader_mode on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @09:23AM (#26077773)

You literally cant - you get banned for leaving the game before the match is finished.

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Re:CD Projekt Red has been subject to a cyber attack and ran... by pca006132 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @06:01AM (#26076051)

I don't think it is really uninterrupted focus for 30min, but rather a lot of very intense focus for a few minutes or so? I think that is similar to videos in youtube/tiktok (not tiktok user, just heard from the others) that attract users watching a lot of videos, where each is <10mins.

That said, I'm not a gamer and I rarely play games now.

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Re:CD Projekt Red has been subject to a cyber attack and ran... by reader_mode on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:18PM (#26083153)

You really need to focus for 30+ minutes, there are 30 sec/minute downtime periods every few minutes, but especially in MOBA games where one mistake can snowball enemies lead, you need to be paying attention the entire match.

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