Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer

Re:Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs fo... by PragmaticPulp on Friday September 30, 2022 @10:28AM (#33035325)

> He's literally spent 33% of his waking life in the ~4 years since release doing nothing but playing RDR2 or RDR Online? That seems... perhaps unhealthy, certainly unbalanced

A lot of tech people have a blind spot for excessive video game addiction that goes beyond having some fun with your friends on nights and weekends. The mainstream focus is all about social media apps, but at least among tech people I believe video game addiction is a serious problem for a significant number of people.

I've known several people who lost their social lives almost completely to WoW, EVE Online, competitive multi-player games, or just burying themselves in the 1000 on-sale or free games they've collected in their Steam accounts. Losing entire years to video games during the formative stages of young adulthood can be devastating for social development.

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Re:Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs fo... by ryandrake on Friday September 30, 2022 @11:05AM (#33035876)

I think 6K hours is excessive, but before anyone casts stones, they should count up how many hours they've spent glued to their smartphones. If we had to pick one, phone addiction is probably a more widespread problem to tackle than video games.

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Re:Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs fo... by EugeneOZ on Friday September 30, 2022 @12:14PM (#33036832)

Is it ok to spend the same time on motorcycles, paragliding, mountaineering, snowboarding, and so on? There are divorces because of motorcycles and other addictive passions. These activities are much riskier and more expensive.

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