A future update should address campaign progress! Campaign progress should have been implemented as a server-side backup (cloud storage) as opposed to local storage. There are countless reasons this makes more sense - switching between computers, new computer, or even a hard drive failure. I’m confused why cloud storage was not implemented given that every other Blizzard game utilizes cloud storage for game progress.
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Yes of course! Let’s give Blizzard even more control over our game! What a great idea! So if they decided to screw me over more, or cut the support for this game fully, I would lose even more! Or if I happened to lose connection to Internet, I can no longer access my saved games!
Bravo, sir! Just wonderful ideas springing up in your head.
#Godsaveusallfromthesepeople #Startusingthatbrainofyours
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Regardless, it could/should be done as an opt-in like Steam so you have both a local save and when you close the game/the save file is updated, it tosses save file into the Steam Cloud.
Granted I’ve found that to be a bit spotty in very specific cases like Dark Souls 3 primarily. Had it happen to me once for Monster Hunter World but it’s behaved since the incident.
as opposed to local storage.
Forgot to mention this bit.
And my point stands - this would make us even more dependent of Blizz, and we also can backup our games just fine ourselves. Bloody hell, there’s such a thing as External Drives. Copy your save-files over and Voila!
Would it really make it more dependent if the order was a trickle-down of:
- Saved to your hard drive.
- Saved file uploaded to cloud.
- Person can manually back up the save in another location on their computer/on another drive.
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This would make Blizz able to access your save files, even those you never intended to upload on their servers e.g. just for LAN play.
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This would make it viable for you to lose your backups in case of problem with servers, you losing Internet connection, etc.
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This would make it viable for Blizz to make additional demands (since you are using their servers more), such as additional fees.
This is just off the top of my head. And why is this needed, when we can make our backups ourselves?
Just follow SC2 formula - even if you delete all folders, campaign progress should load from the servers, it cant preserve saves with changes of patches.
Well if this is a concern it could just be something under the BattleNet client settings that people have to opt into.
Well that’s why, ideally, it would all be saved locally first then shared with the cloud storage.
I’ve never heard of cloud storage coming at a cost but if you do know of any games or services that do that, let me know so I can avoid those like the plague.
Security. Dunno. Same reason I have my documents on a second hard drive, an external hard drive, and some uploaded to Google Drive. Just another place to grab things in case I need to roll back to a previous version or something terrible happens to my computer.