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GOG will delete cloud saves bigger than 200MB after August 31st

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> After August 31st, 2024, we will begin deleting files from our Cloud Storage service. First and foremost we will delete unnecessary files – things that are not at all related to your game, but have found their way into the Cloud Save folder. Next, we will remove save game files, starting from the oldest and stop when the remaining files fit the allocation limit.

This sounds like that someone has used GOG as creative cloud storage on a larger scale...

With 533 games, I still have about 105G of "free cloud storage". Not too bad I suppose.

I would imagine it's pretty hard to really protect from this sort of thing without fairly draconian DRM/attestation type stuff.

For games like Baldur's Gate 3 that means you can only have a handful of cloud save files, they are like from 10 to upwards 40 MBs each. And that's a game where a lot of people doing save/reloads for each fight, decision etc.

Also probably good time to mention Ludusavi, rclone based all in one save file backup system https://github.com/mtkennerly/ludusavi

Honestly, that's absolutely crazy.

yea, play the game the way it was meant to be played

If the game was meant to be played without savescumming, they could easily limit the number of save slots available to a player.

There is a Honour Mode which limits the amount of saves to one.

I was amazed too! 40 Mb for a save file is astounding, a thousandth of the Kiwix package of the whole text of Wikipedia. How many objects is it saving?

You must gather your cloud saves before venturing forth.

What is this reference to?

Its one of BioWare memes.

The soundtrack to my childhood.

Baldur's Gate 2.

"You must gather your party before venturing forth"

In Baldur's Gate 2 it would keep repeating "you must gather your party before venturing forth" if you wanted to transition to another area but one of your characters got stuck, or was tons faster than the rest (boots of speed). It was pretty annoying.

About ten years ago I found the developer who added that so I kicked him in the head till he was dead, gnahahahaha.

With this announcement I realised that I have over 1gig of Cyberpunk saves. That's about 300 of them...

Interesting timing. I just saw someone posting that if you create a steam game you can get gigs of free cloud storage for any files, not just game saves.

That's interesting. You can also use books on public minecraft servers to store basically infinite amount of base64 encoded data for completely free if you already own the game. Besides the cow farm you'll need anyways for leveling and enchanintg you just have to make an infinite sugarcane farm. The most space efficient way is to have the soil pieces arranged in a "Z"-shaped Tetris piece around water sources, but a linear layout may be more time efficient during farming or when automating it.

What a pain. Factorio saves are like 100mb each

Strange there is not an option to pay for storage or something.

Is GOG really in the business of storing data?

I know they offer cloud saves, but would you pay to save more saves? How many others would?

> Is GOG really in the business of storing data?

They already store save data, they are already in the business of storing game data, they just do it for free up to a limit they now set (on a per-game basis). Offering additional storage at a price doesn't sound too far fetched or way outside of their primary business.

If they are not in the business of storing data, then they should just offer the option to sync saves with Google Drive/OneDrive/WebDAV server.

This seems ridiculous in 2024.

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