Cloud saves are one of the lifesavers in the modern age of gaming. Knowing that your save is, hopefully, safely stored away in some digital cloud is a huge help.
However, we do run the risk of losing those saves if something happens to the cloud storage, or if the storage owner wants to streamline their servers.
It might be time to locally back up yourSkyrimsave files
Something akin to this is happening withGood Old Gamesand their ownerCD Projekt Redas the company has stated they are going to put a size limit on save files stored on their servers.
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Consider this your warning to back up your files locally just in case they get deleted forever in this system change. Of course, this only applies if you’re using GOG to play your games, but that’s still a sizable number of gamers out there.
Games you’re going to want to keep an eye on are titles likeSkyrim,Baldur’s Gate 3,Divinity: Original Sin 2,Pillars of Eternity, or evenFallout 4.
GOG plan to start removing large files over 200mb on 31 August, so you’ve got plenty of time to grab them from the cloud and back them up locally.
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Cloud saves are, however, supposed to be a form of back up so you might want to make multiple copies of your save files and keep them on separate storage like a thumb drive, especially if you’ve put hundreds of hours into aSkyrimcharacter.
Nobody needs the tears I had in 1997 when my 80 hourFinal Fantasy VIIsave was corrupted on a Sony memory card. That even makes me sad now, many, many years later.
Topics:Bethesda,CD Projekt Red,Skyrim
