To sync or not to sync ?
 

I dont often do polls but I was wondering what percentage of players use the 'service' to sync their games online and what percentage chose not to.

I used to. After losing a full day of gameplay since their "synch" means "remotely overwrite with old data" instead of "make sure both clients have the same data" I turned it off. Of course that means that because of the way it works I can never turn it on again.

I didnt know you had a choice

'Sync' my games? Is that what you Yanks call 'Registering' your software? :03:

You can turn it on or off in the first 4 seconds on the popup which connects you to the server in the top-right corner (little cogwheel)
I have turned it off due to the reports as stated above.
Marc

I'm guessing you dont have the game or else you would know what this is about. :up:

I sync, simply because that is the default option and I have had no issues so far.

Is there an advantage to cancelling online saves?

Post #2 pretty much sums it up. :cool:

Oh and I swear I got someone elses saved game once because it put my sub in a location that I have never been to before. I just loaded another save. Should have looked at it more closely.

No, turned it of completely. Helps speeding up geting out of the regular "synching games" windows, though can't get rid of them completely.

I have the game and love it! It's just when you used the term 'games' plural, I wasn't sure if you were referring specifically to this DRM business (997th Thread regarding this issue by-the-way). How many games have you got that have DRM?!:o If the title of this thread is actually: 'Do you allow SH5 to sync your saved games?', then there are already 332 Threads with that title :O:

I allow the sync of saved games, because it's quick, convenient and poses absolutely no problems whatsoever. Next question...

Yes, we have a choice.
No, even if you check 'don't sync savegames online' it still syncs.

Yes, we need a "I tried not to. Didn't work at all that st*** b*** of sh***" answer in this poll. :damn:

Got rid of it as soon as I figured out how after I lost a few hours worth of playing when I got synched with old savegames. Now looking for a way to get rid of the autosave function...

I turned it off after hearing that a few players have had problems. It seems to be less intrusive with it off too.

switched online synch off after repeatedly losing saves

That kind of thing was intentionally omitted.