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[Spicen]

I read about the dragon age keep. While its good news, i was thinking about whether it is possible to import saves traditionally. I read an article: http://au.ibtimes.co...firmed-ways.htm
Has it been confirmed that there will be traditional save game imports in the bsn?
Also, i have a few questions about the keep. What will be the size of the saved file? Right now that is the only question which comes to mind. Thanks in advance for answers

[Allan Schumacher]

What do you mean by "public?"

[Derek French]

I'm not overly bothered by this or anything but I am curious to know what the reason is behind the decision to not support an offline save file backup option.  I mean, this is an app that is probably accessible on a phone with internet. What's really stopping them from adding a "generate" button or a "download" button, offered at the end after configuring the world state on the Keep? It can't be DRM because it is completely optional and the game runs perfectly fine without it.

[snip]

Unless it's complicated to implement, I don't get what's wrong with providing the option. 

You are talking about a feature that doesn't exist right now at a stage of the game's development where the features are locked and we are fixing bugs. By providing a singular solution that works on all 5 platforms (known data is transferred via the internet with no user intervention) we have already solved this problem. Someone mentioned the possibility that Sony and Microsoft might disallow filesystem access in this manner. I am pretty certain that kind of interaction is prohibited, but I will check when I am back in the office on Tuesday.

[Derek French]

Unless the Keep data is not "game data"...

That's pretty much it right there. The Keep data doesn't actually qualify as game data, because the game did not create it; an external service did.

[Derek French]

You sure it wouldn't be categorized as game data in the console and by the console, after it is downloaded? Why would it be placed anywhere else in the file system? The only data the consoles prohibit you to access data is when the data is related to the system itself or the games themselves. The Keep data would be neither but in the same category as save files and trophies/achievements data. 

It is all about Sony and Microsoft approvals. Since the Keep is not a program that runs on their consoles as a native app, it doesn't run through their certification programs. The data it generates, in their eyes, is not game data, but untrusted data from an unknown source.