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Cloud Saves in The Sims 4 - Devs Please Reconsider this Decision
SweetieTreats
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I think devs should change their mind and offer a cloud save function for those who want it in addition to the local save function in The Sims 4. A cloud save function allows players to save their games to an EA server.
This option has the following benefits:
* It gives players an extra backup of their saved games without requiring additional hardware
* Players can access their games on any computer they want with ease that has the base game installed.
For those of you who disagree with this answer this one question:
What business of yours is it how others save their games?
Note: This is a spinoff of the other thread where I was disappointed there were not any cloud saves in The Sims 4. The mods thought I was talking about The Sims 3 and moved it to the ideas and feedback section.
This option has the following benefits:
* It gives players an extra backup of their saved games without requiring additional hardware
* Players can access their games on any computer they want with ease that has the base game installed.
For those of you who disagree with this answer this one question:
What business of yours is it how others save their games?
Note: This is a spinoff of the other thread where I was disappointed there were not any cloud saves in The Sims 4. The mods thought I was talking about The Sims 3 and moved it to the ideas and feedback section.
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Cloud saves = Internet connection. MOST sim players play offline, and I for one am thankful that EA learned from the recent SimCity release where they crashed and burned due to their cloud saves.
EA is a money-making company, they want to appeal to the largest profiting audience possible. And they appealed to a niche in SimCity, and it didn't work. They aren't going to make that mistake again.
And your last comment seems rather rude. It's not that it's any of OUR business how you save your game, but it's also not in EA's best interest to offer it.
On the same general topic; They've already announced auto save. Which has enough people up in arms because if TS4 is any bit close to as glitch-filled as TS3 was... I sure as hell don't want it automatically saving for me in the middle of a glitch issue.
1 - Modern AAA games have both local and cloud saving.
2 - EA already offers both options for their games, and it is odd that they won't offer it for a game of one of their most popular franchises.
3 - THE OP WANTS BOTH OPTIONS, NOT ONLY CLOUD SAVING.
4 - Auto saving won't overwrite your regular save. If something bad happened, like a glitch, just load an older save, like in Skyrim. Graham said EXACTLY this on the latest interview.
5 - The problen with SimCity was that it didn't have local save at first, just cloud save. THE OP IS ASKING FOR AN EXTRA OPTION, not for the existing option to be replaced, so stop saying "lol no cuz SimCity". Please, I beg you.
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I had been playing for about two hours and suddenly, without any warning at all, the power went out. I was devastated because I had made a lot of solid progress in my game.
After about 20 minutes the power came back on and I sadly resigned myself to re-doing all those hours of hard work.
Imagine my surprise - and relief! - when I logged back in and my SimCity game was exactly as I had left it when my power went out.
Believe me, that sold me on what a powerful tool Cloud saves are!
I always play my games (even The Sims 3) while logged in. I do turn my online notifications off but sometimes when I'm playing I think of something I want to know about so I minimize The Sims 3, Google what I want to find out, then close out and get back into my game again.
I never did that in The Sims or The Sims 2 - I always unplugged my Internet unless I wanted to use it for something specific.
Times, they are a-changin' . . . for me, at any rate.
Note: My response was to MadameLee I was agreeing with what coolgame8013 was saying and adding onto it.
Also, auto save is optional. You don't have to use it. You can turn it off. So if someone decides to use auto save, it really is none of your business. I think auto save is a great feature and I will be using it. Other players like you won't be able to stop me.
I agree with SweetieTreats. Why shouldn't they? It's time for people to realize that technology moves forward, and that cloud-saving is a necessity for a lot of players.
No one is trying to make you save cloud-only; that's why TS4 will have local-saving as the default saving-option.
I would love a cloud-saving feature for TS4.
I agree 100%; people keep pointing at SimCity when it comes to online-saving. The problem with SimCity was that it only had cloud-saving for a year, and just recently they allowed us to save locally (I said this 10 times already). People just point at things, without knowing what they are talking about, without knowing the situation.
No one is trying to take away the local-saving from you, in fact EA stated that it will be the default-saving option; the OP (and I) just want cloud-saving as an additional saving-feature. It is optional, and if you don't want it, then feel free not to use it.
You've already said this like 5 times on different threads. We get your opinion. No one obliges you to save cloud-only, so feel free not to use that feature. Technology moves on, with or without you.
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ETA: There have also been more and more security breaches for this type of storage. Dropbox is just one company that had class action lawsuits filed against them.
What about DDos attacks?
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The disadvantages would be that you couldn't access the cloud saves unless you were connected to the internet. The sever where the Cloud saves are stored would have to be functional. Since the game also saves locally while cloud saving, you could still access your local saves. Your local saves would not be affected in any way. Saving this way doesn't affect other players just like if you autosave your game, it doesn't affect other players.
I personally don't like using cloud saving but as an extra option along with local saving would not bother me in the slightest. o.O
As long as there's local saving then I don't see any problem.
Cloud only = big no no
Cloud as an option = fine and dandy
You want this for Sims 4 but you didn't really answer my questions which from a technology point of view are valid. Have you ever worked on servers before to know how they really work?
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It is an excellent idea for allowing one to play the same game from computer to computer. I play on my desktop. But with this feature I can take my laptop with me and continue playing the same game while on vacation. But I do agree that it would be an extra service one would have to pay for. Someone has to maintain those servers. That costs money.
1 - Both Origin and Steam have cloud saving. They do not make their users pay extra for it.
2 - There are no documented security breaches on clouds that are just for game saves. That's all that Origin's cloud stores, your games, and nobody wants to steal that. If you game on a laptop, the risk of getting your laptop stolen is ridiculously higher than the risk of the cloud being hacked.
3 - DDoS attacks come and go, and they do not affect the storage in any way because they do not delve into the user's personal information. They are just denial of service; you won't be able to use the cloud for a few minutes (until the attack is dealt with).
You are creating a problem and ignoring the original suggestion, which is ORIGIN OFFERING IT (since it already offers to other games). It doesn't matter if you are not talking about Origin offering it, the OP is.
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