Re: Dear Publishers; Can We Please Stop...

candycanearter07 wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 15:01 this Sunday (GMT):

On Sun, 16 Jun 2024 06:30:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 01:44 this Sunday (GMT):

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Dear Publishers,
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Can we /please/ stop with the "this game uses automatic savepoints and
this icon will flash on your screen when it happens, press button to
continue" message at the start of every game?

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Honestly, I don't fully get why they even flash an icon anymore. Unless
you only have one file internally and keep writing over it, there isn't
much risk for file corruption..

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I'm not opposed to that. It lets me know -in the rare instances that I
notice it- that the game has been saved. For some games where
autosaves aren't too frequent, it's a useful indicator; a sign of
safety and reassurance. "All your hardwork in that last section will
be preserved and you won't have to redo it." Yay!
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Of course, with some other games, which save every twenty six steps I
move forward, it's less useful. ;-)
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I suspect the whole thing though is due to some requirement by console
manufacturers who - back when autosaves were a new thing - demanded it
be put in place by game publishers, and it's just stuck around since
then. Partly to remind console gamers - who up to that point were used
to just flicking the power switch on their device whenever they were
done playing it, rather than waiting for disk activity to stop - and

 People will probably always force shut off to quit. I do it too
sometimes.
 

partly to advertise the fact that these new consoles had built in
storage now. Sort of like how publisher logos initially were a
response to console manufactuers demanding that the game show
something -anything!- within five seconds of loading a game, and a
short movie (or splash screen) showing the publisher name was the
quickest way to meet that requirement.

  Oh, really? I didn't know that, cool!

Are there any ghost stories about people who shut it off during autosave and wrecked their console?