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How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%

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3883 points kuroguro | 6 comments | 28 Feb 21 19:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.464s | source | bottom
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avar ◴[28 Feb 21 20:37 UTC] No.26296827[source]▶
GTA:O shows advertisements for in-game purchases on the loading screen. How many advertisements you see is a function of how long the loading screen takes.

Something tells me this "problem" was discovered long ago at Rockstar HQ, and quietly deemed not to be a problem worth solving.

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cmeacham98 ◴[28 Feb 21 21:08 UTC] No.26297083[source]▶
I was going to say surely this has extremely diminishing or even negative return past 30-60 seconds, but then I remembered lots of people are willing to sit through 10 minutes of commercials to watch 20-30 minutes of TV. So I guess for the right type of customer it works?
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1. crazygringo ◴[01 Mar 21 00:55 UTC] No.26298643[source]▶
But on network TV, 8 minutes of commercials are interspersed among 22 minutes of content.

Virtually nobody's willing to sit through 10 minutes of commercials straight.

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3. thitcanh ◴[01 Mar 21 03:33 UTC] No.26299433[source]▶
It depends on the channel, really. I remember once I was sitting at an eatery in the Philippines (basically a cafeteria with immediately-available food) and the TV just played commercials from the time I sat down until I left.
4. thaumasiotes ◴[01 Mar 21 12:06 UTC] No.26301946[source]▶
The GTA thing is even worse than that; television doesn't air commercials before the beginning of the show!
5. SilasX ◴[01 Mar 21 13:46 UTC] No.26302684[source]▶
Especially if you have to watch the full ten minutes first.

Then again, that's what they do at movie theaters...

6. Taylor_OD ◴[01 Mar 21 18:30 UTC] No.26306188[source]▶
I remember realizing I was 10-20 minutes into an infomercial instead of regular commercials late at night when I was young. I was probably distracted at the time but man did I feel stupid when I realized that it wasnt just a really long P90X commercial.