Comment on The Sims re-release shows what’s wrong with big publishers and single-player games

lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Explain in one sentence what cloud saves are and how they conflict with it being a singleplayer offline game.

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  • gamer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    BaCk iN mY DaY wE SaVeD To FlOpPy DiSkS!!

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    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Hey! Someone else remembers floppy disks!

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      • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I remember the floppy disks that were actually floppy. I don’t think I ever saved to one though.

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  • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Never said they conflict. Said they’re not a “basic feature”. Sigleplayer has lived without cloud saves since around 1960.

    Heck, most modern consoles have a USB port, I’d consider “offline save” *more" “basic” than “cloud save”. After all we all know by now the corporate internet can’t be trusted.

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    • SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Electricity isn’t a “basic necessity”. Humanity survived for thousands of years without it.

      Cloud saves are a basic feature of any modern game. It’s extremely easy to add on Steam without even having to implement it in the game. It’s just configuration, so not having access to the original source code isn’t an issue.

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yeah, I was going to say, of all the things one might complain about…a lack of cloud saves and achievements?

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