this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2023
113 points (98.3% liked)

Games

38929 readers
1192 users here now

Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.

Rules

1. Submissions have to be related to games

Video games, tabletop, or otherwise. Posts not related to games will be deleted.

This community is focused on games, of all kinds. Any news item or discussion should be related to gaming in some way.

2. No bigotry or harassment, be civil

No bigotry, hardline stance. Try not to get too heated when entering into a discussion or debate.

We are here to talk and discuss about one of our passions, not fight or be exposed to hate. Posts or responses that are hateful will be deleted to keep the atmosphere good. If repeatedly violated, not only will the comment be deleted but a ban will be handed out as well. We judge each case individually.

3. No excessive self-promotion

Try to keep it to 10% self-promotion / 90% other stuff in your post history.

This is to prevent people from posting for the sole purpose of promoting their own website or social media account.

4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts

This community is mostly for discussion and news. Remember to search for the thing you're submitting before posting to see if it's already been posted.

We want to keep the quality of posts high. Therefore, memes, funny videos, low-effort posts and reposts are not allowed. We prohibit giveaways because we cannot be sure that the person holding the giveaway will actually do what they promise.

5. Mark Spoilers and NSFW

Make sure to mark your stuff or it may be removed.

No one wants to be spoiled. Therefore, always mark spoilers. Similarly mark NSFW, in case anyone is browsing in a public space or at work.

6. No linking to piracy

Don't share it here, there are other places to find it. Discussion of piracy is fine.

We don't want us moderators or the admins of lemmy.world to get in trouble for linking to piracy. Therefore, any link to piracy will be removed. Discussion of it is of course allowed.

Authorized Regular Threads

Related communities

PM a mod to add your own

Video games

Generic

Help and suggestions

By platform

By type

By games

Language specific

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Dremor@lemmy.world
JonsJava@lemmy.world
fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Dremor@jlai.lu
modfxomt@lemmy.world
113
Cross-platform saves are the best thing. (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by QubaXR@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world
8 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Activision Blizzard is not a good company. They have an abysmal track record for how they treat their employees, history of misogyny and abuse. Since the departure of Blizzard's founding members, the quality of many of their games took a noise dive.

They got one thing very right though, and that's account-level, platform independent save system in Diablo 4.

Being able to seamlessly switch between my PC, PS5 and Steam Deck is probably the coolest thing I experienced in gaming in a very long time. While it would be awesome not to have to buy the titles individually on each platform, it's a huge step in the right direction.

I can only wish more games supported cross-platform saves, because now that I'm used to it, I can really feel the absence of this feature in other titles.

(It would also help a lot with games preservation, if you could easily use old save files on newer platforms and remasters - as long as it's not all server-bound)

top 7 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I loved CD Projekt Red for including syncing Witcher 3 saves from GOG/Steam to Switch. I don't think I've seen another Switch game do this.

[–] Hyrulian@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

The only other one I can think of is Divinity: Original Sin 2. It works in pretty much the same way.

[–] brawleryukon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Hades uses Epic's EOS suite to do cross-platform between at least Switch and PC (not sure about the other consoles, but I'd be surprised if they weren't included, too), and I believe cross-store, too, if you for whatever reason own it on both EGS and Steam (again, not 100% sure about that, but I think it's the case).

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 6 points 2 years ago

One of the best things about Microsoft’s pc push. Pretty much every single first party game has cross platform saves (along with the amazing cross buy as well).

Hopefully when Microsoft own Activision we’ll get cross-buy for all their games too.

[–] DefiantTostada@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Hear hear. The steam deck is making me appreciate that the most. I initially hoped cross-platform saves would work for games on the Switch and PC, but I don't think I've seen a single game where that works. It's part of the reason the Deck has replaced the Switch for me. Steam cloud saving is usually flawless between Deck/PC.

The downside of true cross-platform is that it requires server side saving. Which usually means another launcher and multiplayer/GAAS BS. Diablo is no exception.

[–] echoplex21@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Been absolutely loving this since I got an Ally. I’ll play some games on my Xbox and it’s right where I left off when I get on my handheld.

[–] Chrishering33@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Sir, I respect your point and you would be correct BUTT the best thing is cross platform multiplayer! ;)

load more comments
view more: next ›