Valve to support “Portable game saves” soon?

Brian Ambrozy 16 Oct, 2007 at 3:27pm ET Article published in Tech

Yesterday I made a suggestion on the Steam forums that game saves get tied to your Steam account and are able to be “taken with you” wherever you happen to log on to Steam, and today a Valve rep responded:

“This is a popular feature request and it’s likely that it will be supported eventually. Thanks for the suggestions!”

Now, of course the key word is “eventually” but as they said- this is a popular feature request. It would be fantastic to be able to take your game saves with you.

Comments

16 Oct 2007 ~ 4:14pm GHoosdum that would rock
16 Oct 2007 ~ 4:36pm Cyclonite I think about that feature every time I have to start my game over when I reinstall or install elsewhere.
16 Oct 2007 ~ 5:15pm NiGHTS When the voice of Icrontic speaks, he is heard.

Can you suggest that I get a free copy of TF2 for being such a great guy, sir? plznthx.
17 Oct 2007 ~ 12:03am maxclark

NiGHTS wrote:

When the voice of Icrontic speaks, he is heard.

Can you suggest that I get a free copy of TF2 for being such a great guy, sir? plznthx.

lol
18 Oct 2007 ~ 2:58pm rapture Can't help but think the unlockable achievements are the first step in this.
18 Oct 2007 ~ 3:01pm GHoosdum I think the Achievements were added mostly because Orange Box came out for the 360 as well, and Valve came out with the Community features to make the PC experience just as feature-rich.
18 Oct 2007 ~ 3:03pm rapture The fact that they only work when in online mode has to mean something though. No reason why they couldnt include the start of a new chapter in half life for instance.
18 Oct 2007 ~ 6:11pm CB

rapture wrote:

The fact that they only work when in online mode has to mean something though. No reason why they couldnt include the start of a new chapter in half life for instance.

That's the only type of thing that I think really needs to stick with the account. I could care less about my individual save-games, but I was disapointed when I reinstalled HL2, and found that I couldn't just start from whatever chapter I wanted, I said to the screen, "What? I beat this game already, shouldn't it at least remember that I already beat it?"

It would also be nice if it remembered my key-bindings from one install to another.

Heck: It would be nice if Bioshock would just remember my key-bindings from session to session.