@RayD_01 spotted that the cache folder has been moved to the \BattfieldGameData.kin %appdata% folder out of MyDocuments folder. Guys let me know if you can use OneDrive again!
DICE TeamMerged serval threads together as we all talking about the same item.
Feedback has been sent on to the team. (that don't mean it will be changed)
/Atic
@EA_Atic I accidentally left the game open for night and woke up to 30 gb uploaded which obliterated my data cap and added $60 to my already $250 internet bill. Now I cannot play any game because my data is throttled for the next week, cant watch tv either without massive lag from the throttling. You can confirm this is how the game was developed intentionally and released correct? Seems extremely sloppy to do that with no way of fixing it and a scummy thing to do to loyal customers who stuck their neck out for EA in the first place by buying this unfinished bag of 💩. Devs could have at least programmed a feature that kicks you from matchmaking after being afk for 12 hours lmao, or at least a work around so I'm not uploading GBs worth of data that doesn't need to be uploaded...
any way I could fix this would be appreciated I still want to play it and I hope the devs put out a hotfix soon hopefully by next week when my data cap resets
Assuming there's no update on this at all? Literally posting/bumping this because I can't do anything else on my PC right now while OneDrive grinds everything to a halt trying to upload the 0.5gb from having played one (1!) round late last night.
I agree it is bad design but you should also turn off autosync. You are just handing your data to MS
@Psubond wrote:I agree it is bad design but you should also turn off autosync. You are just handing your data to MS
That is the point, by synchronising my Documents folder to Onedrive (or in my case my M365 tenant) my data is secured in the event my PC catches fire or is stolen. With WFH and BYOD becoming quite prevalent over the pandemic, this type of data protection is super common and enforced in most organisations.
@Psubond wrote:I agree it is bad design but you should also turn off autosync. You are just handing your data to MS
I wouldn't trust Google, but I believe that Microsoft is different, for reasons of self-interest.
For Google, 90%+ of their turnover is from advertising, so for them, the user is the product - they will use and abuse your data in any way they can to make money.
For Microsoft, their turnover comes from Windows, office and increasingly, Cloud services like Office 365 and Azure. They make promises not to touch your data and they rely on having the trust of businesses. If it was found that customer data was being accessed, the loss of trust would be so immense that they would see a huge loss of income from those businesses. Yes, in the short term, they could make some extra money by abusing company data, but it would be such a huge risk that I don't believe they would. A tiny increase in income but at the risk of losing a huge chunk of their core income.
As such, you can read online about the steps they put in place to prevent even the admins who work in Azure datacentres from accessing customer data. If you ever contact their support, it is so frustrating as they have so little access, they can't see enough to help you.
And EA really need to fix this.
@techb00mer wrote:
@Psubond wrote:I agree it is bad design but you should also turn off autosync. You are just handing your data to MS
That is the point, by synchronising my Documents folder to Onedrive (or in my case my M365 tenant) my data is secured in the event my PC catches fire or is stolen. With WFH and BYOD becoming quite prevalent over the pandemic, this type of data protection is super common and enforced in most organisations.
hey, you want microsoft to have your data then you do you. in response to what you wrote though....why are you playing battlefield on a work controlled computer?
@Psubond wrote:
in response to what you wrote though....why are you playing battlefield on a work controlled computer?
I never said that.
It should be noted there is a big difference between Onedrive free (ie outlook.com/hotmail etc) and actually paying for M365. How your data is handled and stored is quite different, ie see @MogZero post.
This is, however, getting off topic.
