The closure of Google Stadia can have significant effects on those who have invested heavily in its games, beyond the refunds announced by the company, as the case of one demonstrates. youtuber who has invested 6000 hours in the Stadia version from Red Dead Online game and now afraid of losing everything, asking for the possibility of transferring the saves.
As we have seen, Google has decided to close Stadia in January 2023, also proposing an unprecedented refund program that will allow all users to get back the money spent on subscriptions and games in these three years of service activity.
This is a never-before-seen initiative and very positive for consumers, but there are still some aspects that remain unsolved in such a drastic decision.
The youtuber Color, for example, pointed out that his 6000 hours of play in Red Dead Online will be inexorably lost if Rockstar does not provide a program of transfer of bailouts from the Google Stadia version to another, as other publishers like Ubisoft with its titles and Bungie with Destiny 2 intend to do, at least in the announced intentions.
The youtuber in question made himself known online thanks to his marathons on Red Dead Online, which led him to accumulate over 5900 hours of play on the Rockstar Games title. This activity also helped keep the community lively and compact, staging multiplayer game sessions and getting to know several users about the game.
In short, these almost 6000 hours of gameplay are a great wealth of experiences, which Color risks losing completely with the closure of Google Stadia. For this reason he asked Rockstar to propose a system of transfer of the saves that allows not to disperse data and progress made, but at the moment there is no information on a transfer program by the team.