looking at you x3
and rimworld
Comment on Gog will delete cloud saves more than 200MB per game after August 31st
smeg@feddit.uk 3 weeks agoThat’s excusable in My First Game™ but surely professional AAAAA game would never cut corners and code something so lazily, eh?
cactusupyourbutt@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
vithigar@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It’s not really laziness. Storing as JSON solves or prevents a lot of problems you could run into with something bespoke and “optimally packed”, you just have the tradeoff of needing more storage for it. Even then, the increased storage can be largely mitigated with compression. JSON compresses very well.
The problem is usually what they’re storing, not how they’re storing it. For example, The Witcher (first one) has ~20MB save files. These are mostly a bespoke packed binary format, but contain things like raw strings of descriptions in multiple localisations for items being carried, and complete descriptors of game quests. Things that should just be ID values that point to that data in the game files. It also leads with like… 13KB of zero-padding for some reason.
smeg@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Good points!