Am I the only one having a hard time wrapping my brain around why oculus's save game data arent stored in the cloud ?
Not long ago i had to reinstall my computer, and I forgot to backup all the local appdata ( yeah shame on me ) but now all my progress is lost in all games!
Why doesnt oculus work like steam? i mean comon! it is 2017 and my progress is stored local?
I recently reinstalled windows and tried to copy all my save game folders over but because they are scattered all over the place with no designated save location, I ended up missing a few. One game was Feral Rites which I was a few hours into, I was planning on finishing the game but not sure I can be bothered playing from the start to get back to where I was.
@bigmike20vt mentioned to me that cloud saves are now possible but older games will need to patch it in. Id really like cloud saves but id also like all my saves to be in one specified folder either within my documents, Oculus or Steam folders, then it would at least be easier to copy everything for doing a fresh install or backing up as @elboffor has suggested, but it seems like an unnecessary hassle trying to locate each save file when they are in different locations, within hidden folders and sub folders to folders named after the developers etc
Indeed i did say that, i am almost certain that was what an oculus employee said when i posed the question a few months back. Ideally could do with confirmation tho in case i am wrong
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Set up one drive or Google drive to back up the relevant folders
I shouldnt have too! its lame tbh.
having savegame data stored on your drive is so old school.... there should be a law aginst it! like mambo1888 i doubt ill be bothered enough to reply some of the games up to the point where i was.
lucky's tale, chronos, blazerush, defence grid 2,kittypocalype, dead and buired etc... its just stupid -.-
We have cloud save as a feature of the store, but unfortunately it didn't arrive until after Rift launch so there are not really a lot of games (or maybe any) using it. Hopefully more games will support it moving forward.
@cybereality thanks for confirming. Would there be a way to have a designated save game folder within the Oculus folder (preferably within the software folder) so that when you need to do a backup your games and save games are all copied within one folder rather than searching around for all the different locations, or is that controlled by the developer of each game?
Cheers, I thought that was probably the case. I had games in AppData, AppData/Locallow, My Games etc and then the parent folder is usually under the developer name so its hard to find everything. Hopefully developers will start to take advantage the cloud save option .
Not having your own automatic backups of any important parts of your own system is a terrible idea, folks. Windows comes with automatic backups built in that are fairly decent, so there's no excuse. Otherwise roll your own, or use Backblaze or Crashplan or whatever. And no complaining that a $50 USB3 HDD to backup to is too expensive, you bought a Rift and a high-end PC!
