I think the game developer has to agree to it as well, so it is not just AG who has to agree with you.
You've got a good point there.
i like the idea, but for ALL games to be able to save would be a whole lot easier said that done
I'm sure this is true. That's why suggested that it could also be an option for people to use if they want, or maybe just paid account users, rather than for everyone automatically. That way the scope of the problem would be smaller, whatever the actual technical challenges of doing it may be.
games should give you the option to delete save data, because what if (like me) you have 2 people on the same computer even with different accounts... (etc)
That sounds kind of like the opposite of the problem I have here. For me, deleting my save games is all too easy: I just have to clear out my temporary internet files, cache & internet cookies. The inherent problem is that doing the aforementioned things deletes savegames. That itself is the problem. With all the confusing settings in Firefox & Chrome, and all the changes that each browser makes with each new version, and new updates to Adobe Flash Player that come out EVERY SINGLE WEEK, ALL YEAR LONG, UNENDINGLY, it seems virtually impossible to prevent cache & cookies from getting erased from time to time. And even if you never erase them at all, well that can be bad on its own. Personally, I avoid ever clearing them out solely because I don't want to lose my savegames from websites such as this. And I've heard that letting these kinds of files accumulate on a computer over time can really slow it down. So in a sense I've been deliberately losing some of my computer's performance ability in order to be able to use this site. That's a pretty big sacrifice to make just for "casual" browser-gaming, and only because "there's no other option."
What would be a much
BETTER solution would be to give users the ability to save their game files somewhere ELSE on their computer, that's separate from the rest of their temp internet files & cache & cookies, so I can run basic maintenance on my computer without losing the things I work so hard for (
throwing the proverbial baby out with the bathwater). Although that might require some basic reprogramming of Windows OSes, the browsers themselves, and/or Flash Player, none of which are within the power of ArmorGames.com to do.
Then again, if there was at least a simple, functional, publicly-available way to BACKUP all armorgames files that are on a computer, then people who care to do so can just back their stuff up regularly (like we do with almost
every other kind of game or other software on our computers), and then when ever we find our savegame files erased, we can just restore from the backup, so only a little progress will have been lost rather than ALL OF IT. And I mean without individual users (especially non-tech-savvy ones) having to do through a long & confusing process of figuring out exactly where on their hard drive every single file & folder is that holds the relevant data.
For you, ImTheMostManlyMan, this could be good because you & your brother could each save your backup data to a different place (like make 2 subfolders in the backup folder, one with your name & one with his), and then each time you play you can restore from your own backup and then back it up again when you're done; and restoring your saves ends up erasing/writing over your brother's save, then that'd be fine as long as he also backsup his own data whenever he's done playing. Sort of analogous to you each having your memory-card on a game console, and simply swapping out one card for another whenever a different one of you plays on it.
But as it is for now, no such analogous "memory cards" exist.
What do you say, ArmorGames developers?Any ideas here so far sound like they might be feasable?
