That’s great, but maybe we should stop talking about you. People pay for Steam, Netflix and many other services because they don’t want to write scripts. They want something convenient and easy to use. They also want additional functionality. You said how you back up save files, but nothing about achievements, time tracking, friends, screenshots sharing, etc.
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Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 days agoI backup my own saves, don’t really trust someone elses computer to do as good of a job as I can myself. Wrote a script to automate it.
tauren@lemm.ee 2 days ago
M137@lemmy.world 2 days ago
And you just ignored the rest of the reasons, and to add to those: automatic updates.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Do you not have to update that script every time you play a new game? Cloud saves are pretty automatic, and regardless of platform, they’ve been pretty reliable too. It also fits that use case that you go to a friend’s place and want to show them something in your save file on a whim.
overload@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Syncthing?
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yes, that’s what I use when I need it for GOG saves. But typically, every game puts their save file in a different spot, so you do need to do a one-time setup for each individual game.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Typing
backup “Game” “/path/to/files”is pretty simple though. I wouldn’t complain about cloud saves existing, but I won’t rely on them and absolutely wouldn’t pay for them.