Red Dead Online's biggest superfan may lose 6,000 hours of progress on Stadia

pcgamer.com:

Some developers working on projects for Google's soon-to-be shut down Stadia cloud gaming platform have had the rug pulled out from under them(opens in new tab). Plenty of gamers are losing save progress and a go-to platform. Arguably no one has been more punked than YouTuber(opens in new tab) and TikTok(opens in new tab) creator Colour, who, as reported by GamesRadar(opens in new tab), has over 6,000 hours(opens in new tab) on the Stadia version of Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption Online 2. All that rootin' tootin' cowboy fun is about to be lost to time, like tears in rain.

6,000 hours is an utterly staggering amount of time to spend on anything. This isn't your usual «spent too much time on a game,» this is 250 days. I've been an avid barbell and kettlebell lifter for five years, reaching a point I'd comfortably call «intermediate to advanced.» Back of the napkin math puts me at 1,500-2,000 hours actively pursuing one of my main hobbies in that time.

Further manic, frenzied calculations lead me to conclude that 6,000 hours of RDR Online 2 since its Stadia release in November 2018 has Colour averaging over four hours a day. If you allow for a weekend, it's closer to six hours. Granted, Colour does do a lot of content creation for RDR Online 2, being the «RDR Online 2 on Stadia person» is kind of their thing, but I still find this to be an utterly maddening amount of gameplay! This is my Pepe Sylvia(opens in new tab).

Forget the logistics of it all though, Colour's time investment in Red Dead Online is in grave danger of becoming one of those Libraries of Alexandria that's constantly burned down on the internet every day. It doesn't have to be this way.

No you don't understand how seriously pissed off I am