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GoG - Cloud Saves files that exceed the default allocation limit (200 MB per game) will be deleted after August 31st, 2024
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- Title
- Review your Cloud Saves to avoid loss of files
- Word count
- 351 words
This is simply another reminder that cloud means under control of someone else and should be treated as such. Especially without equitable contract in place.
Though with majority of users willingly running user hostile sw that they let send whatever it wants wherever it wants and modify itself however it wants whenever, this distinction between cloud and local keeps shrinking.
This isn't user-hostile. This is basically a courtesy service provided for users and won't affect local saves. Nothing really changes for people who do full save backups in other locations for games they care significantly about.
I didn't say it was? Though it probably can be read that way. It was simply meant as what was said - the user simply does not control what is on the cloud.
I don't know what else you were trying to imply by referring to use of cloud services leading to user hostile decisions in this context.
A different contexts approaching very similar effect. A cloud is under control of someone else which needs to be always kept in mind but these decisions are not necessarily hostile to the users since it is under control(and is property) of someone else.
The other paragraph was simply an observation that in my opinion the mainstream sw approaches this lack of control in local setting.
This won't affect many games, but Skyrim, for example, can have GBs of saves if you save a ton. This is more of a courtesy notification, but it's good to know the limit, too.
It will be a bigger deal for Baldur's Gate 3 (or Divinity Original Sin 2) players since Larian game saves take up a ton more space over a lot less saves, and people seem to have quite a few saves for those games.
Also the Witcher 3 (a CDPR game) doesn't overwrite quicksaves, and they do a full state save each time, so a save folder for that game can be many gigabytes big as well.
This is worded like they sent out a notification, but I didn't get one despite my Witcher 3 files taking up >500MB. Looks like you'll have to check for yourself, luckily you can in the web browser at the link towards the top.
At least this might mean that all the .gif files still filling up my cloud quota for Noita might be deleted.