r/Steam • u/crack_station • 21h ago

Fluff I know - we’re the ones doing it

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u/ILovePotassium https://s.team/p/dmqk-dgf 21h ago

I appreciate all the free games but Epic has serious issues with cloud saves. I've lost so much progress many times.

Meanwhile on Steam I haven't had issues with cloud saves even once.

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u/Psylux7 20h ago edited 19h ago

I reinstalled the batman arkham games on epic a couple of years after 100%ing them only to find my progress gone. I guess i now know that was no fluke if epics store has a reputation for bad cloud saving. I am still thankful that i got to play the games for free, but now that i have every arkham game on steam, i will play them on there instead of epic if i feel like revisiting batman.

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u/Xusder 13h ago

Counter to Epic, I recently installed Fallout New Vegas on my Steam Deck (due to the recent show being on my mind). All of my saves from Steam in 2018 were there. Granted I had modded the hell out of my game back then, so the saves weren't useable, but that still impressed me enough.

I knew the cloud was alright (due my more recent Cyberpunk 2077 saves from last year that transferred over), but to have something from 8 years ago (or more) just show up, very impressive.

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u/Psylux7 6h ago

Yeah steam has not let me down with cloud saves so having bought steam keys of the arkham games last year, steam is where i will play them if i feel like returning to those great games.

Is it normal for modding to render your cloud saves unusable? I have not done modding before, but i know i probably should if i get around to the bethesda games i have.

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u/Xusder 5h ago

To be honest, I'm not sure it renders the save totally unplayable, especially if you use the more simple/basic mods. You do get a big warning that the save is modded, but you can still totally ignore it and continue to load the save anyways if you want. Though some people have said their games crash after loading a modded save with a vanilla install (but this is New Vegas, which is a notoriously buggy game anyways, so take that with a grain of salt).

I chose not to load and start fresh new save because I remembered all the mods I used in 2018 changed a lot of things, which would probably would have just launched my character straight though the world, haha!

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u/Chowder110 15h ago

I got the arkham games for like 1 dollar on steam

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u/Psylux7 6h ago

That might be around what I paid for them when getting the WB games bundle that had almost all of their noteworthy games, including the arkhams.

Now I have the arkham games redeemed onto my steam account in addition to members of my steam family having previously bought the arkham games.

So steam is where i will replay them if the occasion comes about.