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Dirt Rally: "Your save is made under different operating system and is thus incompatible"

• trinovantes 4y ago
  Imagine a game save that uses OS dependent line breaks as delimiters. I joke but I fear there's some game out there that actually does this.
  • stodor89 4y ago
    "Closed-source" and "industry secrets" are holding gamedev back big time. We get away with many practices that'd be considered backwards by a web developer even 10 years ago, and we have no viable solutions to many gamedev-specific problems. This in turn leads to just the same stuff being re-made again and again since like 2005 or so.
• gpderetta 4y ago
  I had started playing Skyrim on an XBOX360. A few years later I got it for my pc as well. I was amazed when I found out I could easily extract the save file form the console and use it on the PC version of Skyrim without any issues! Best part is that I was running Skyrim (and the extraction tools) on Linux under wine (this was before proton even).