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Re:How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% by Dylan16807 on Sunday February 28, 2021 @10:14PM (#26299338)
They're making lots of money but the ridiculous load times absolutely cost them money. It's not worth an unlimited amount of dev time to fix, but they definitely should have assigned a dev to spend one day estimating how hard fixes would be.
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Re:How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% by rjmunro on Monday March 01, 2021 @08:06AM (#26302375)
It's costing them money just in the time wasted by their own internal QAs and devs loading the game to test it.
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Re:How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% by blowski on Monday March 01, 2021 @02:04AM (#26300343)
Arguably, it could actually make them money, since it provides a window of free advertising. I have no data either way, but I wouldn’t assume long load screens are necessarily bad for business.
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Re:How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% by Dylan16807 on Monday March 01, 2021 @04:29PM (#26308674)
They don't need more than a full minute of advertising every load.
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Re:How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% by danlugo92 on Monday March 01, 2021 @08:32AM (#26302586)
N=1 but one of the reasons I don't partake in modern gaming is ridiculous loading times and mandatory update sizes.
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Re:How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% by nmfisher on Monday March 01, 2021 @12:48AM (#26300074)
That's also possible. I haven't played it myself, so I really can't comment.
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