Allow a tiny amount of customizable Steam Cloud storage to let players sync custom files/files from games that don't support Steam Cloud normally.

[grog]

My thought is this: There are many games that allow you to customize it through files (think TF2 custom HUDs) or games that do not support Steam Cloud already that wouldn't be too complicated to work with (Geometry Dash only has 2 files that stores all of your player data, but are prone to data loss and corruption. I've lost all my data some 5-7 times by now). What would be nice, is to allow a user to select a small amount of files that would be stored as part of the game's Steam Cloud syncing, so you don't have to worry about manually transferring the files when going between devices.

[Yujah]

Now, admittedly it's not hard to do "manually" now neither but I expect that if Steam were to explicitly and purposely provide for that type of general storage that they'd also in at least a few jurisdictions be explicitly held accountable for what's on said storage. I.e., sounds like a wasps nest to me.

[HikariLight]

The Steam Cloud is only for game saves.
It is not like Google or Apple Cloud that lets you upload anything.

[grog]

Originally posted by Yujah:

Now, admittedly it's not hard to do "manually" now neither but I expect that if Steam were to explicitly and purposely provide for that type of general storage that they'd also in at least a few jurisdictions be explicitly held accountable for what's on said storage. I.e., sounds like a wasps nest to me.

Yeah, this is a really valid point, but couldn't you implement some kind of content moderation system? Technically the Steam Workshop already acts like some kind of general storage and that's perfectly fine in most cases, so I don't think it would be too hard to do something similar.

[Yujah]

I know quite literally nothing about "the Steam Workshop". If it's similar in this respect then, yes, that may be a point.

[Ionut Catalin Frasineanu]

Originally posted by HikariLight:

The Steam Cloud is only for game saves.
It is not like Google or Apple Cloud that lets you upload anything.

Would be great to be able to upload personal files to Steam Cloud.

[grog]

Originally posted by Yujah:

I know quite literally nothing about "the Steam Workshop". If it's similar in this respect then, yes, that may be a point.

The more I think about it, the more this analogy works.

How the Workshop works, is users will upload mods or custom files (usually in .zip format) and after going through automatic moderation, users will be able to see and "subscribe" to the item.

Subscribing means that the latest version of that file will be automatically downloaded to all devices that use the same Steam account.

How it would work, is each user could have a personal "workshop" where you can upload files and "subscribe" to them to sync them across devices.

[Yujah]

Well, you posted it in the right place it seems. Maybe some Steam-developer picks the idea up :)