Do you back up your save games?

[GhostCow]

Wasn't there a save creator for that?

 

[Citizen]

If the game is good then I would just start over, no big deal. If the game was shit but for some bizzare reason I kept playing it, then losing the saves is just another to drop it.

 

[Pero_Gamechuck]

Had 100+ hours in The Witcher 3 before GOG got the cloud saves feature. I was sure I've backed the save somewhere before reinstalling the PC. Turned out I screwed up and deleted my save lol.

I replayed the game last year following a long break, finally finished it, and enjoyed every second of it.

 

[Horvatii]

Savegames tend to be very small so backing them up is like 5 seconds of work and 5 megabytes of storage required. Even if they end up collecting dust it doesn't matter.

just in case i want to import saves into the mafia remake!

 

[what am i doing]

If there's some NG+ shit I might need it for, or if it's something like an RTS campaign or Thief game where I might just want to jump in and replay a particular mission directly and the game doesn't have a natural function for that.

 

[Bloodeyes]

Nah never backed up a save file. I save in multiple slots but that's the extent of my paranoia. I've actually never had save files corrupt on me in cRPGs. The only games I've had do that to me are the Sims 4 on ps4 and modded Fallout 4 on ps4. I might just stick to 1 save per character from now on. It's just never been necessary to have more in decades of gaming despite everyone and their dog telling me I need to. I can't even recall a time where I played myself into a corner and had to revert to an old save because of bad decisions. Am I just lucky or is the multiple saves thing just paranoia?

 

[Jvegi]

I used to have 4 or 5 different installations of BG2, and some additional save folders from previous installations.

Waste of space. I mean, there was some rationalle behind it, but I never actually used it.