Was there ever a need for online save games?

[SteamWake]

Agree... I am perfectly cabable of managing my own save games.

[fromhell]

old news

[Highbury]

I tend to play ROF on two computers (I have two homes 1200 miles apart, I am not lugging a PC back and forth and laptops don't cut it for gaming IMO). I think it is excellent to be able to log on in either location and everything is right there. It is actually a wonderful thing.

This can be accomplished without the Ubi OSP platform however. With ROF's announced changes you will be able to play offline, then log in and upload your stats, etc. Still works for my situation. I would like to be able to do that with SHV saves and not have to take them on portable media.

So to answer you, yup, can be very handy

[trenken]

Before I played some games that saved online, including a couple single player only games, I would have said "no", there is no reason for it.

But ive had game saves for games that were offline become corrupt. And I had a hard drive die on me, losing thousands of hours of progress across multiple games, so now im a fan of my save being protected online from Microsofts crappy OS's.

When I found out SH5 was saving online, I was happy about that for more than 1 reason.

[Task Force]

Its a load of bulls*** to make people think... hmm, thats pretty cool, not, will this make me have to stay online... honestly, some of the suff they said like the 100 computer thing is just stupid, honestly, most people only have 1 or 2 if there lucky, computers to play anyway...

and if there servers crash, lots of people will start b****ing and complaining on forums web wide.

"the game says something about looseing connection, what can I do, I need to save my game..."

Im sure it will happen here. some person will regester and start complaining, and probably trolling... I can see it now.

ROF might not have many server issues. But its not as big as UBI, and not as much server traffic. Ubis servers will might do ok origionaly, but as this stuff starts expanding, and more and more start useing it, UBIs servers will go downhill, till it is downright stupid.

[Highbury]

Ok Task Force, you don't like the DRM, we know. I would rather they did without it too, but the question was just about online saves, not DRM. They are not mutually exclusive.

And ROF has had the servers go down. They probably have a smaller market then SH (arguably) but they have much less in the way of resources (definitely). When they have gone down people have lost anything they were doing, and made alot of noise on the forums. I am not arguing that point with you at all, just so ya know

[Task Force]

I know. But in the end, I posted about the savegames, and how they are stupid, it is stupid to force a customor into somthing. like keeping stuff online, which these save games would.

When I was mentioning the server stuff, I should have mentioned. What happens if the servers "crash" meaning loose ALL your data, your save games...

In outher words, I think this savegame thing is just plain stupid...

When I mentioned ROF haveing less server traffic, I was compairing that to the Complete traffic UBI will have, not just the SH series. I am pretty sure UBI isnt gonna give each game there own server. Eventualy as games are released, the servers will be haveing strain, holding all these save games and monitoring games. which will lead to reliability issues.

[Schroeder]

Originally Posted by trenken

But ive had game saves for games that were offline become corrupt.

Just out of curiosity, how is storing the save game on a server preventing it from being corrupted? I guess it doesn't get corrupted by the hard drive (otherwise all of your data would be corrupted, not just saves) but by bugs in the game's save function and/or OS. The server can only store what was sent to it and working as an external hard drive (or at least that's what I think). So my guess is, if the save is getting corrupted by your machine then the save on the server will be just as corrupted as the one on your system.
Or do I have a wrong understanding of all of this?

[Letum]

And even if HDDs did corrupt files* then having it on a server won't help.
It's still stored on a HDD, just the server's HDD, not yours.



*if this did happen you would never be able to boot up, let alone load saves.

[Mud]

It's like parking my motorcycle in the garage and give the key to a total stranger.
The stranger tells me he keep it save so I won't lose my key and I can get it back anytime, do I trust him ... No Sir.

Mud

[HundertzehnGustav]

but he isnt a stranger! you already bought your Motorcicle from him!
it cost 50 bucks and came with a DVD case!

you can trust him, no problem.