Ghost recon breakpoint game save disappeared

I haven&#x27;t used Stadia so I don&#x27;t know if this is the case already but cloud gaming providers need to give people the ability to download and back up their own data, or better yet just store them locally and online both by default.<p>When LAN parties were still a thing I and a group of friends once lost an entire day of Titan Quest progress because someone stepped on a power strip and turned everyone&#x27;s PC off. I&#x27;m still so paranoid over this that to this day I always back up savegames to at least one other place.

I have lost a few save-games, so I can relate. In my case it was because I forgot about them or the fact that, I did care if they were lost (I rarely game at all).<p>I have an &quot;offline&quot; Windows 7 gaming PC (only connected to a dedicated file-server, that holds the game installers, drivers, etc). I only use this PC to play Witcher 3, Fallout 3&#x2F;NV, and a few others. I found this PC (i5-2500K) at the side of the curb, and invested ~$21 in 16GB of RAM, and ~$230 in a GTX 1660 Ti (6GB). It runs my games at Ultra settings in 1080p, so I am pretty happy with it.<p>It has happened that I have lost save-games because I did a reinstall and forgot some save-games because &quot;There is nothing important on this PC!&quot; ...doh... I then switched to using Duplicati for backing up save games, screenshots and game configs to the dedicated file-server.<p>I don&#x27;t bother with that anymore though, because the gaming PC now runs off a FibreChannel SAN backed by ZFS Volumes. So I have snapshot, rollback and clones. Which is also quite useful for testing drivers, and rolling back to &quot;a clean install&quot; or &quot;a clean install + windows updates via WSUS-offline&quot; without waiting for the installer or updates.

I wonder if there is a mentality that ‘meh these are just game saves, big whoop’ as opposed to say Google docs. Hopefully data is data.

This happened to me in FIFA<p>Every time I lost my save, I added a letter to the end.<p>I am on GAME SAVE-L<p>They are using containers I imagine and sometimes they don&#x27;t sync and get destroyed.<p>But<p>Stadia is awesome for me, cheap way to get a console, easy to turn on. Kids asleep, turn it on, play a game, no moving, all Cloud, all fast.<p>I hope they don&#x27;t get rid of it, but I&#x27;m expecting they do as always but I really like it.<p>If they added Steam support, NVIDIA has, then they&#x27;d get so much more traffic.

I’m more surprised that many people are still using stadia to be honest. I thought Google have been winding it down for some time.

Judging by the number of people impacted and the comments it looks like a bug.<p>I&#x27;m not seeing a resolution yet.

Use Google products at your own risk.

I think cloud gaming only takes off when the games are built specifically for this use case.<p>Right now, streaming gaming consists of encoding GPU output, relaying player inputs, and praying everything in between doesn&#x27;t notice the player isn&#x27;t in the same room anymore.<p>Think about how much compute and memory resources are wasted because we are running thousands of nearly duplicate gaming environments with wildly inconsistent utilization throughout. How much latency and resource consumption could be shaved off if the game was aware of its circumstances and engineered for this purpose?

You don&#x27;t need cloud gaming to lose saves, I lost a save once when Origin decided to overwrite my save with a &quot;newer&quot; empty one. Make backups of things you care about

I don’t want to log in to read, so excuse the question if it’s already answered:<p>Is this a classic Citrix issue where the save game is in one pool of servers but not the other?

Does Stadia still exist? When it&#x27;s on the news, it&#x27;s always something negative.

This is a good reminder for me to make a physical backup of my game saves on Steam cloud

I can&#x27;t read the post without signing in - can someone post a copy of what is says?

This could serve as a good example to aspiring developers and system administrators of the value and sanctity of user data.<p>&gt; Over 600 hours on 2 different characters. Both with 250 XP and at level 70 and 72. GONE!!!!!!!<p>Imagine their data is gone for good. What compensation could the vendor possibly provide? Would $10,000 do it? User data can be irreplaceable.

This is what can and will happen if we decide it’s a good idea to rent games instead of owning them. Same with always online games - at some point the developers can and will shutdown the servers, rendering your game unplayable. It already happened several times. I really do hope game streaming and online-only single player games will stay as a niche.

People are going to lose more than their save games when Google inevitably kills Stadia.

How many times does stuff like this have to happen before people stop trusting the cloud (i.e., someone else&#x27;s computer) as the only place where data they care about lives?

Class action when?

This discussion so high up at HN while the issue is non-significant compared to the events in the real world right now (mass shooting in the US, war in europe) makes me sad and happy at the same time. Sad because people seem to lose touch with reality, happy because apparently a lot of people get mad about this which means the don’t have generally speaking not a lot of other issues in their life ;-).