Considering we cant save replays, why not give us the option to bookmark at least 5 of them? The bookmarked replays wouldnt be able to be replaced by new replays while the ones that arent on the marked list will keep scrolling. Thoughts?
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I know i’ve download some (on PC) you can even set the quality.
what do u mean “download” it is undownloadable, u cant do anything with replays now, just watch and forget, no “save” option.
Oh, Maybe it was a “Play of the game” I downloaded.
It is not downloading aswell, you actually render it to video, to be able just watch it later in video format of the game. This is not flexible option.
It woudl be nice to have the same for highlighs too (even though I use neither of those anymore)
As someone who plays comp and qp,I like this idea.
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I suppose there’s a problem of server space.
When 1 replay gets saved, let’s call it Replay X, that’s the same space serving 12 people, one for each participant in the match. When those players keep playing, that Replay X’s “number of people served” goes down until it’s reset into useful space again. But before the reset happens, the new replays need to be saved so server space required increases to a certain point, that point being until all 12 participants of Replay X play 10 games and push Replay X out of the screen of all 12 participants (at which point Replay X becomes free space again).
But, if a player bookmarks Replay X, and goes on playing, Replay X will never be free space again (until the game gets patch that is), so instead of increasing required server space up to a limit, a bookmark would make it so that increase could happen indefinitely, and that’s potentially costly.
What I would suggest personally is what we have all been thinking: Save replay locally. Instead of bookmark, let us have a download and delete option. I don’t know how many gigs it would be, but I assume it can’t be larger than the game itself, so that’m seems fine. The client would then read the replay from local system rather than stream it. After being downloaded, a replay can be deleted from servers for the user that downloaded it, so speeding up how fast a replay becomes free space.
Of course if any patch happens, replays goes bananas, so that would have to be clear somehow. A pop up wouldn’t hurt.
Ideally, I would love to see the same resource being used to code the POTG and highlight into videos being out to use with replays. It would take hours rather than seconds, but that’s still better than recording tools.
I came here for this. I had a great match and want to save the replay locally. Blizz please make this happen.