Local game saves backup

[Eldin]

Steam Cloud is awesome for those games that supports it.
But there should be something for games that don't support it.

With GameSave Manager we can manually backup or schedule backup our games to local disk or to Google Drive.

But it would be much better if game save was backed up every time we exit the game.

GameSave Manager doesn't know if game is running or not. But Steam does know.

It would be very useful if we could configure Steam to backup all games after exiting to either local drive or cloud (Google Drive, Mega, Dropbox, etc.)

[Jaunitta 🌸]

If you have cloud sync enabled on all games it backs up saves as well. The idea behind cloud sync to be able to go another pc log into your Steam account and continue playing.
Buy a new PC reinstall Steam and all games back in library.
I just backup my game / to an external USB drive.
Backup Steam folder and you will backup most of them. I dont think free games and online . Maybe someone else can confirm that.
List of your cloud saves.
https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage

[Eldin]

All games don't support Steam Cloud sync.
Those games usually store save games in their own folder, Documents or somewhere else. And when you delete those games, save files are gone too.

Solution for those would be manually choosing which files should be backed up. But that would result in people abusing it to get free storage on Steam Cloud.
So if we could choose those files to be automatically backed up to local disk or another cloud service, we could keep saves of those games too.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

If games don't support it, contact the devs of those games and ask them to.

[Eldin]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

If games don't support it, contact the devs of those games and ask them to.

Not possible because a lot of old developer teams don't exist anymore or they're abandoned their games.
And it would also require recoding some parts of the games to make them compatible with Steam Cloud.

GameSave Manager can backup almost every game.
Steam knows when to backup them.
It's much easier for Valve to make this feature for Steam, than for each developer to make their each game compatible with Steam Cloud.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Eldin:

It's much easier for Valve to make this feature for Steam, than for each developer to make their each game compatible with Steam Cloud.

And Valve can't add features or change anything about them to games they do not make without permission.

They can add the feature to the Steam platform but the game devs have approve it for their game.

So, contact the game devs and ask them to do something about it.

[Eldin]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by Eldin:

It's much easier for Valve to make this feature for Steam, than for each developer to make their each game compatible with Steam Cloud.

And Valve can't add features or change anything about them to games they do not make without permission.

So, contact the game devs and ask them to do something about it.

What premission from developers they need to just copy C:\Users\<username>\ Documents\<gamename>\ to D:\Backups\<gamename>\ after you exit the game?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Eldin:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

And Valve can't add features or change anything about them to games they do not make without permission.

So, contact the game devs and ask them to do something about it.

What premission from developers they need to just copy C:\Users\<username>\ Documents\<gamename>\ to D:\Backups\<gamename>\ after you exit the game?

It is how their game functions. Any change to that is up to the game developer.

[Eldin]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by Eldin:

What premission from developers they need to just copy C:\Users\<username>\ Documents\<gamename>\ to D:\Backups\<gamename>\ after you exit the game?

It is how their game functions. Any change to that is up to the game developer.

Are you're telling me that I shouldn't use GameSave Manager because that's not how the game should function? I shouldn't even move and copy game files around my drives manually because it's up to developers to decide where save files will be stored?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Eldin:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

It is how their game functions. Any change to that is up to the game developer.

Are you're telling me that I shouldn't use GameSave Manager because that's not how the game should function? I shouldn't even move and copy game files around my drives manually because it's up to developers to decide where save files will be stored?

No, I'm saying that any change on the platform would require game developer approval if it changes anything about their game.

[Eldin]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by Eldin:

Are you're telling me that I shouldn't use GameSave Manager because that's not how the game should function? I shouldn't even move and copy game files around my drives manually because it's up to developers to decide where save files will be stored?

No, I'm saying that any change on the platform would require game developer approval if it changes anything about their game.

It wouldn't change anything about the game. Save files are not part of the game. They're just created by game and game runs fine with or without them.

And it wouldn't even change anything about those save files. It would just make a copy of them to another location so we can restore them when we reinstall game, drive fails, etc.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Which is it?

Originally posted by Eldin:

It wouldn't change anything about the game.

Originally posted by Eldin:

Save files are not part of the game.

Originally posted by Eldin:

They're just created by game and game runs fine with or without them.

You seem to contradict yourself in your statements.

Just so you know, it is what the game devs programmed their game to do. ie... Up to the game devs.

[Eldin]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Which is it?

Originally posted by Eldin:

It wouldn't change anything about the game.

Originally posted by Eldin:

Save files are not part of the game.

Originally posted by Eldin:

They're just created by game and game runs fine with or without them.

You seem to contradict yourself in your statements.

Just so you know, it is what the game devs programmed their game to do. ie... Up to the game devs.

I don't see how I contradicted myself there.
If you create something, it's not part of you.
Changing it wouldn't change yourself.
You can live the same with or without it.

Game developers programmed their games that way because:
-Steam Cloud haven't existed at the time of creating game
-Devs were too lazy to implement Steam Cloud.
-Another compatibility reason.

I haven't seen any devs having anything against backing up game save files.