A Red Dead Redemption player with nearly 6,000 hours logged on Google Stadia is begging Rockstar to allow character transfers after the service was shut down.
YouTuber @ItsColourTV (opens in a new tab) took to Twitter shortly after the announcement that Google Stadia closes broke yesterday. “No you don’t understand how pissed off I am,” reads the tweet, along with a screenshot showing they put 5,907 hours into Red Dead Redemption on Google’s play service. .
No you don’t understand how seriously pissed off I am pic.twitter.com/UZ157WLmruSeptember 29, 2022
“For context: these hours are on Google Stadia and today Google announced that they will be shutting down the platform,” said one. follow-up tweet (opens in a new tab) reads, “@RockstarGames please let us do a unique character transfer, I beg of you.” If you don’t know, once Google shuts down its Stadia service on January 18, 2023, ItsColourTV’s progress will be entirely erased from existence, which means they’ll have to start a new save file on another platform – with every 5907 hours (about 246 days) will get lost.
It seems other Red Dead Redemption players felt sympathetic towards ItsColourTV, with many responding to the tweet with suggestions on how to save this player’s save. A suggested (opens in a new tab) that ItsColourTV uses Google Takeout – a data download service – to transfer its file to a PC, to which it replied“I don’t play story mode.” Rockstar, if you’re reading this, do our guy a favor and let him transfer his character just once.
If you’re also on the verge of losing your Stadia save data, why not check out our games like Red Dead Redemption list for inspiration on which game to switch to.