Steam already has it's own cloud. But Valve can't alter the games from others to have cloud support, that's entirely up to the game developers.

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

Steam already has it's own cloud. But Valve can't alter the games from others to have cloud support, that's entirely up to the game developers.

So valve wouldn’t legally be able to store the games save data, if the developer decided to no longer support cloud saves?

Originally posted by Toast:

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

Steam already has it's own cloud. But Valve can't alter the games from others to have cloud support, that's entirely up to the game developers.

So valve wouldn’t legally be able to store the games save data, if the developer decided to no longer support cloud saves?

Valve can't store the save games if the game developers turn of the cloud support, correct, as Valve does not own those games and can't modify them to do so.

They provide tools for developers, it's up to the latter to use them. Or not.

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

Originally posted by Toast:

So valve wouldn’t legally be able to store the games save data, if the developer decided to no longer support cloud saves?

Valve can't store the save games if the game developers turn of the cloud support, correct, as Valve does not own those games and can't modify them to do so.

They provide tools for developers, it's up to the latter to use them. Or not.

Learn something new everyday, thank you.

Just like Tiger said, only way to get the said games to support cloud save is asking the dev to enable it, this is all free btw for both devs, and consumers on Steam, all Dev has to do it point where to look to copy said files, or copy said target files only.

Also some games has their own cloud support which is account based so it comes from dev server rather than Steam itself, it up to how Devs want to do things really either they want to have control, pass it onto the service, or not having it at all.

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Just like Tiger said, only way to get the said games to support cloud save is asking the dev to enable it

Well, technically one could set up one themselves by using one of the many cloud storage providers though they'd have to set the entire thing themselves manually and it would only work on the game saves they've set the cloud service to backup. This does have the advantage of having full control over the cloud saves (backup), unlike with Steam Cloud but as I said, it would require lot of manual work from user. There is also possibility of file conflict if used with game that has Steam Cloud enabled though you probably would not use the method to such games.