• ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    This is Sakurai’s explanation, and it seems reasonable to me:

    “I feel very sorry for making the user wait,” he explained. “If you take one second from each user, that means you’ll be taking 10,000 seconds from 10,000 people. The more this repeats over the years, the more time you will cause players to lose."

    • IzzyScissor@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I remember one of l Hank Green’s older videos when he added up all the viewtime from all of their videos and realized it was longer than the average human lifespan. Of course, he immediately framed it as “We’ve killed a man!”