So I'm backing up my PS3 saves to the "cloud" and jesus christ who made game saves so damn big!? Dragon Age and Bioshock are 12MB a piece! I have less than 2MB of space left even after I only stuck to one save per game (well, 2 for DA for each of my characters and an extra GOW3 save at Aphrodite's Chamber for those... lonely nights). 
 
What the hell am I supposed to do for future games?! 
 
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" So I'm backing up my PS3 saves to the "cloud" and jesus christ who made game saves so damn big!? Dragon Age and Bioshock are 12MB a piece! I have less than 2MB of space left even after I only stuck to one save per game (well, 2 for DA for each of my characters and an extra GOW3 save at Aphrodite's Chamber for those... lonely nights).  What the hell am I supposed to do for future games?!  :( "

just save your main save, the rest can be put on a flashdrive or something.

" just save your main save, the rest can be put on a flashdrive or something. "

" @PufferFiz said:

" just save your main save, the rest can be put on a flashdrive or something. "

Thats what I did, but I'm still tapped out... "

Wow, that's it? I don't have many PS3 games so I would be fine but if I had a lot of games like I do with my 360, that wouldn't be near enough for my saves. Maybe you can sign up for Playstation Super Plus for 300 MB storage.....heh

" @Enigma777 said:

" @PufferFiz said:

" just save your main save, the rest can be put on a flashdrive or something. "

Thats what I did, but I'm still tapped out... "

How much space do you even have frees?  "

They should make it 400 for yearly and 200 for tri-monthly.

" They should make it 400 for yearly and 200 for tri-monthly. "

I actually only ended up with a little more than 30 MB left. I uploaded all my saves I think that was kind of a mistake like if I run out of space I'll delete some I know I won't use. It is still nice just to have the option though.

" @Snapstacle said:

" They should make it 400 for yearly and 200 for tri-monthly. "

hehe, also known as quarterly "

I don't even have space for my Ghost Ship data in Wipeout HD :(

Wow, only 150 MB? Seriously? If I was gaming on my PS3 as much as my 360 that limit would have been far exceeded, I know that some games can have ridiculously large save files.
 
@PufferFiz said:

" just save your main save, the rest can be put on a flashdrive or something. "

Soon enough it will all be through terabyte hard drives, so it won't matter methinks.
 
Got to wait ten or so years but it should happen.

Wait what the fuck?
 
Plus Cloud is only at a 150 mb limit?

Well, let's hope you haven't played Mafia 2 with it's 44MB save file.

you shouldn't have that many games ongoing, this would be used more so you can keep you currently being played games backed up, not so you can store every single save of every single game you've ever played on the system.
 
But yeah 150Mb is a tad low, I think it should be at least triple that.

I was thinking about this before, they should let you install a program to your own server to let people upload to there. So if you trust a website not to delete your saves, you can sign up to send your saves there.

FYI, save files are protected.  Anything with trophies in the game you cannot copy to a usb stick.  Backup those games first and foremost, anything that you can actually copy to a usb drive would be a good idea to save space.
 
That ignores the blatant fact that hard drive space is REDICULOUSLY CHEAP and sony is being stingy as hell when a 1 tb drive (1024 gigabytes, which is 1024 megabytes, so that is 1,000,202,039,296 bytes of useable space after formatting for the price of one playstation plus yearly subscription.)  Tell my, why isn't the limit 1 GB per account then.  AT THE MINIMUM you can get a dropbox integration into psn and every person has 2 gb right there.
 
Keep in mind folks, this whole pay to save your game is the only way to ensure you actually get to keep your saves.  If you have a ps3 die on you, ylod or otherwise, and you take the hdd into a new ps3 or a refurb'd ps3, then it formats the drive automatically to curb piracy.  Also, if you have the backup of the drive done through the backup utility then the new ps3 which you put the backup on will only get the un-copy protected content.  Meaning every save, demo, and game download is gone, and you have to redownload them all through the store, launch them to update them, and then start all over again because you lost your save.
 
How do I know this, it happened to me, not once, not twice, but thrice, and my 2nd ylod is sitting in the closet, number 7 was stolen and I am effing done until this bullcrap resolves itself.

" you shouldn't have that many games ongoing, this would be used more so you can keep you currently being played games backed up, not so you can store every single save of every single game you've ever played on the system.  But yeah 150Mb is a tad low, I think it should be at least triple that. "

I'd say that's enough to save the stuff you actually care about.

" @onarum said:

" you shouldn't have that many games ongoing, this would be used more so you can keep you currently being played games backed up, not so you can store every single save of every single game you've ever played on the system.  But yeah 150Mb is a tad low, I think it should be at least triple that. "

I was under the impression that the purpose of cloud saves were to have a backup of all your old save files if your hard drive fails. "

" @xyzygy said:

" @onarum said:

" you shouldn't have that many games ongoing, this would be used more so you can keep you currently being played games backed up, not so you can store every single save of every single game you've ever played on the system.  But yeah 150Mb is a tad low, I think it should be at least triple that. "

I was under the impression that the purpose of cloud saves were to have a backup of all your old save files if your hard drive fails. "

why would you want to keep saves for a game you've beaten already? the most important ones to backup are the ones that you are still actively playing. "

150 MB? ... that seems really little. Heck, Steam gives you 1GB of cloud space just to save screenshots.

So this made me think about trophies. If your harddrive fails, and you get a new ps3, do you only get the trophies from the saves you have or do you get them all when you transfer regardless? It's never happened to me so i'm not entirely sure how this works.

" @onarum said:

why would you want to keep saves for a game you've beaten already? the most important ones to backup are the ones that you are still actively playing. "

Because you may be proud of your accomplishments? Because you may have spent hundreds upon hundreds of hours in a game and you want something to show for it? Because you may want that save file so you can import it in a sequel?  "

" @sickVisionz said:

" @Snapstacle said:

" They should make it 400 for yearly and 200 for tri-monthly. "

hehe, also known as quarterly "

"

There is a size limit for the cloud storage? That's dumb. I mean, the people who are going to be affected by it are people who own the most games. Those people are Sony's best customers. So they buy lots of games and they pay for a PS+ subscription, and they can't store all of their files. 

I propose they go the Dropbox route: Recruit friends to Playstation and you get an added 20 megs a pop.

" @Enigma777 said:

" @onarum said:

why would you want to keep saves for a game you've beaten already? the most important ones to backup are the ones that you are still actively playing. "

Because you may be proud of your accomplishments? Because you may have spent hundreds upon hundreds of hours in a game and you want something to show for it? Because you may want that save file so you can import it in a sequel?  "

Isn't that what trophies are for? personally I don't give a crap about that stuff, when I play a game is to entertain myself not to eventually show off my "accomplishments".  Importing save status into a sequel is a valid point, but the games that do that are very few. If you want to keep all the saves for all games you've ever played for posterity, you family heirloom or whatever you can easily do that in a 5 dollar pendrive, cloud saving is for mobility, so you can easily continue your ongoing games on any system with ease, not a complete backup solution.  But again, I agree with you that 150MB is a tad low. "

"Well, let's hope you haven't played Mafia 2 with it's 44MB save file. "