Origin cloud storage function?
Hi there. Contacted support about this a couple of days ago and I really want to know whats happening. As Dragona sage: Inquisition is launching pretty soon I wanted to replay dragons age 2 using m...
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1. The "Dragon Age Keep" will be used to establish the world-state leading into DA: Inquisition. It does not rely on any previous game save. Period. You will re-establish the parameters outside any current save before entering Thedas again.
2. The "Sync with cloud" option offered by EA/Origin has a liimit of 100 MB per game title. DAO/DA2 saves can exceed that limit with just one character. Once that happens, NONE OF YOUR "CLOUD" SAVES ARE VALID.
3. If you don't have your own saves backed-up locally, shame on you. There's no way to obtain them from anywhere else.
1. Yes the dragon age keep can be used to create a new world and start playing but saying thats the only option strikes me as odd.
There is multiple threads about this issue and the latest information to my knowledge is when producer Mark Darrah states they are looking into how importing saves could work to "populate the initial world state of the Dragon Age Keep".
If you got another source stating othervise please link it.
2. Yes they got a limit to 100mb per game title but claiming it somehow stops working alltogether if you exceed that amount is plain wrong.
If you did miss it I have playd it before about 200+ hours.
I have experienced the limit ALOT of times.
When you do Origin tells you that you cant save to the cloud without deliting some savegame data or you get the option to turn the cloud storage off.
The OPTION to turn cloud storage on/off was never gone.
So again if you got a source confirming your claim I'm all ears.
This time I dont really have a source myself only personal experience.
3. If a game service is launched and has as one of the selling points is the feature cloud save it should work as stated.
Any modern phone rely on the same principle for keeping your contacts and you wouldnt accept your contacts going missing with the expectation you need to back them up localy cause you only got them in the cloud.
I DID have my games saved localy but stopped doing so because of origin removed that need.
Almost the same as a modern phone removed the need for physical phonebooks :P
1. That quote from Mark Darrah you linked is from almost a year ago now. At that time they were, as he said, "looking into it...." The BioWare staff have posted much more recent info on Twitter, in their blogs, and even here on the forums saying that a direct saved-game import just isn't going to happen.
Besides all the issues with inconsistencies between world states when going from DAO -to- DAA -to- GoA -to- WH, even on the same platform, trying to do cross-platform (PC, XBox, PS3, XBoxOne, PS4) would have meant not doing it in time for Release.
2. The warning message about reaching the cloud storage limit is fine, if you receive it! But as many very disappointed players have discovered, EA/Origin has real problems playing nice with BioWare games in general, and DAO in particular.
Turning off "Sync with cloud" and making your own backups is the only reliable way to recover from the kind of havoc EA/Origin can, and does, wreak with DAO.
EA/Origin does seem to do better with DA2. And I just saw that they pushed another update to both the game and the client, so maybe they've finally fixed this!
3. Yes, it's exactly like a mobile phone suddenly "losing" all its stored contacts! Shouldn't ever happen. Does. User is then rightfully furious.
