Steam Cloud No Longer Supported?

OldFatGuy · 07-23-2019, 05:46 PM

I could have sworn that in at least one or two older versions of OOTP on Steam that it included the cloud backup (so you could play the same game from different computers) but I can't see it for OOTP20.

Am I doing something wrong or is it no longer an option?

rudel.dietrich · 07-23-2019, 06:24 PM

My understanding was that is was never supported. I remember Markus stating long ago that they knew it existed but decided not to use it because the save save games were too large.
That was fine for then but now Steam has greatly raised the file size limit. I wish they would revisit it.
It is massively convenient to synchronize across multiple systems.

For now I use something like Google Drive or Microsoft One Drive.
Easy but not as easy as having Steam know which files have changed and only downloading and syncing those that have changed.

OldFatGuy · 07-23-2019, 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by rudel.dietrich

My understanding was that is was never supported. I remember Markus stating long ago that they knew it existed but decided now to use it because the save save games were too large.
That was fine for then but now Steam has greatly raised the file size limit. I wish they would revisit it.
It is massively convenient to synchronize across multiple systems.

For now I use something like Google Drive or Microsoft One Drive.
Easy but not as easy as having Steam know which files have changed and only downloading and syncing those that have changed.

See screenshot..

Matt Arnold · 07-24-2019, 05:19 AM

I'm not sure why that option was there - as far as I know, it won't actually work, since we have nothing internally that actually uses cloud saves.

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rudel.dietrich Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Zürich, Switzerland Posts: 8,608 Infractions: 1/0 (0)	My understanding was that is was never supported. I remember Markus stating long ago that they knew it existed but decided not to use it because the save save games were too large. That was fine for then but now Steam has greatly raised the file size limit. I wish they would revisit it. It is massively convenient to synchronize across multiple systems. For now I use something like Google Drive or Microsoft One Drive. Easy but not as easy as having Steam know which files have changed and only downloading and syncing those that have changed. Last edited by rudel.dietrich; 07-25-2019 at 05:34 PM.

07-24-2019, 05:19 AM	#4
Matt Arnold OOTP Developer Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Here and there Posts: 14,127	I'm not sure why that option was there - as far as I know, it won't actually work, since we have nothing internally that actually uses cloud saves.