> After August 31st, 2024, we will begin deleting files from our Cloud Storage service. First and foremost we will delete unnecessary files – things that are not at all related to your game, but have found their way into the Cloud Save folder. Next, we will remove save game files, starting from the oldest and stop when the remaining files fit the allocation limit.
This sounds like that someone has used GOG as creative cloud storage on a larger scale...
For games like Baldur's Gate 3 that means you can only have a handful of cloud save files, they are like from 10 to upwards 40 MBs each. And that's a game where a lot of people doing save/reloads for each fight, decision etc.
In Baldur's Gate 2 it would keep repeating "you must gather your party before venturing forth" if you wanted to transition to another area but one of your characters got stuck, or was tons faster than the rest (boots of speed). It was pretty annoying.
About ten years ago I found the developer who added that so I kicked him in the head till he was dead, gnahahahaha.
I was amazed too! 40 Mb for a save file is astounding, a thousandth of the Kiwix package of the whole text of Wikipedia. How many objects is it saving?
Interesting timing. I just saw someone posting that if you create a steam game you can get gigs of free cloud storage for any files, not just game saves.
That's interesting. You can also use books on public minecraft servers to store basically infinite amount of base64 encoded data for completely free if you already own the game. Besides the cow farm you'll need anyways for leveling and enchanintg you just have to make an infinite sugarcane farm. The most space efficient way is to have the soil pieces arranged in a "Z"-shaped Tetris piece around water sources, but a linear layout may be more time efficient during farming or when automating it.
They already store save data, they are already in the business of storing game data, they just do it for free up to a limit they now set (on a per-game basis). Offering additional storage at a price doesn't sound too far fetched or way outside of their primary business.
This sounds like that someone has used GOG as creative cloud storage on a larger scale...