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[thanotos omega]

I don't know how wide spread this feature is, But on XB 360 at least you can only have 25 total saves, this means that if you only have two manual saves each you are limited to 5 characters,

 

Why is this even a thing? DA:O had a weird limit on the number of characters we could have, and now this? why must the games always have some massive issues with telling me how much of my hard drive i can use for them?

 

It can't be meant as a convenience option since we finally can delete saves from in game and in mass,

 

PLease patch this silly problem out as soon as possible,

[Icy Magebane]

It's the same on PS3, but I'm not sure about the new generation of systems... I think it's a really stupid idea, so there must be some kind of technical reason for the limitation.  There's no way that they decided to do this on purpose if it wasn't based on some kind of hardware limitation.  At least, I'd like to think not, but you never know...  Even worse, autosaves and "milestone" saves count toward this limit... and we need multiple save files because I already encountered a glitch where the game slowed to a crawl and I was unable to play normally on that file even after reloading.  Imagine something like that happening but your most recent other save is an hour ago because you're juggling between 3-4 save files because you have too many characters.

 

To get around this, you can probably just make a new profile and play on that... I did this with Dragon's Dogma, which was much worse since it only had 1 save per profile.  You couldn't even have multiple characters on the same profile in that game, let alone multiple saves...

[SpiritMuse]

On PS4 I have a limit of 40, which is still not a lot, especially since the previous games had 31 per character.

[thanotos omega]

It's the same on PS3, but I'm not sure about the new generation of systems... I think it's a really stupid idea, so there must be some kind of technical reason for the limitation.  There's no way that they decided to do this on purpose if it wasn't based on some kind of hardware limitation.  At least, I'd like to think not, but you never know...  Even worse, autosaves and "milestone" saves count toward this limit... and we need multiple save files because I already encountered a glitch where the game slowed to a crawl and I was unable to play normally on that file even after reloading.  Imagine something like that happening but your most recent other save is an hour ago because you're juggling between 3-4 save files because you have too many characters.

 

To get around this, you can probably just make a new profile and play on that... I did this with Dragon's Dogma, which was much worse since it only had 1 save per profile.  You couldn't even have multiple characters on the same profile in that game, let alone multiple saves...

Dragon's Dogma had an excuse with the whole Pawns thing since it would flood the market with them if people had multiple saves, And alt profiles also need to be linked to Origin so you can use the Keep, so it's a pretty big hassle,

 

 

On PS4 I have a limit of 40, which is still not a lot, especially since the previous games had 31 per character.

So even next gen games are getting a raw deal, is it seriously so hard to let us make multiple save folders? i am willing to spare 5 MB per character, I got like 29 GB of spare space.

[Icy Magebane]

Dragon's Dogma had an excuse with the whole Pawns thing since it would flood the market with them if people had multiple saves, And alt profiles also need to be linked to Origin so you can use the Keep, so it's a pretty big hassle,

I forgot about the Keep... hm... I guess that won't work unless you use the default backstory, whatever that may be....

 

Well, I tried.

[thanotos omega]

I forgot about the Keep... hm... I guess that won't work unless you use the default backstory, whatever that may be....

 

Well, I tried.

It's still doable it's just allot of work to bypass a bad feature,

[themikefest]

Its the same for the ps3.

 

If you have 25 saves and want to start a new game, the game will tell the player to delete saves to start the game. I had to delete 4 saves from my fist playthrough

[Lee T]

I hope they will at the very least give us a reason for this limitation if they do not modify it.

The max of 10 character saves in DAO (one per character per content, meaning four slots out of ten for a full playthough with DLCs) was already crippling. i can't imagine playing with a maximum of 40 saves across characters.

Considering the disk space on consoles these days, this seem pointless.

[Ghost]

I agree. PC is limited to 250 saves across all characters.

[Ms .45]

I've had to delete early-game saves from my first character to free up room for my second. I don't mind the limitation on saves for the PC - if I'm currently level 15 I probably don't need that level 4 save any more - but Mass Effect (for instance) had 100 saves for each character. At least that way, I just saved over the old saves for the current character, and didn't need to switch to a different character, delete their saves, then switch back!

[SongstressKitsune]

These save limits strike me as so silly :/ Like, why bother?

[Hakster]

This is a somewhat crippling limit. While I appreciate that, for whatever reasons you have, saved games are meant to be sync'd to the BioWare servers, having a hardcap of 25 save games in total in effect restricts people to only 2 characters before needing to go and clear out, due to autosaves counting towards the limit.

 

Please remove this limit entirely - if I want to keep a save for every single branch of the story, then that should be my choice, particularly when there is absolutely no advertisement of this cap - it's not on the box, it's not in the manual, and the only time anyone ever finds out about it is when you actually run into it, often at a rather inconvenient time.

[Lifeonerth]

I am playing on the Xbox One, and I get a message saying that the game is limited to 50 saves, but have you actually counted the number of save games you have available? My actual count is 24, and that INCLUDES two auto-saves and a milestone auto-save, making the number of actual physical saves I have available only 21. There is a BIG difference between 21 and 50.

Besides, my system is fairly new and still has a ton of space available, which I would be more than happy to allocate for DAI save files. Even if it didn't have so much room on the hard drive, I could easily switch to an external drive to add room for more saves. I was guessing that I had about 25 save slots while I was playing, and I figured maybe they kept the other 25 in reserve for a second character or something since it specifies "50 saves across all characters." However, I only have one character.

I just tried to start another one and the game said I have to delete six of my current save files to be able to start a new character. What?? If the game is telling the truth and I have 50 save slots, where are the other 29 slots? Or 26, or even 25? This is completely unnecessary and a big roadblock to enjoying this game, especially given how prone it is to bugs both small and large! The old RPG adage, "Save early and often" definitely applies to this game, but we can't really do that to the extent that we need to if we are artificially limited to 21 saves. 50 saves would still be tight for a completionist like me, but it would be a heck of a lot better than 21!

Why tell us 50 if it is not 50? How many save slots am I SUPPOSED to have on the Xbox One? I hate to delete six of the 21 saves on my older character, I had 240 hours on her including all but two achievements, if you count the Dragon achievement that is bugged. Help!

[Quelala]

and I hope we can named our save files too... sometimes I do multiple save just in case i get something wrong then I forgot which one ><

[Winged Silver]

Naming the saves would be great...I like going back and taking screenshots of paricularly well lighted cutscenes (since the Origin client lacks a decent screenshot function and using print screen makes my cutscenes go wonky).

 

As for the limit, I'm on a PC, and I've heard the 250 thing too. Does the game become unstable or something? Also, has anyone tested whether or not the save limit is affected by whether or not you upload your saves to the cloud? I deactivated that feature (since it was always being screwy anyways), and since I have a terabyte hard drive, it seems very silly that my save file preferences are being imposed upon by EA or Bioware or whatever restrictions 

[DanteYoda]

I agree. PC is limited to 250 saves across all characters.

 

Wtf i had like 600+ in my Dragon age 2 saves and more for Origins...

 

How the hell do i play DAI with only 250?

[Grieving Natashina]

Wtf i had like 600+ in my Dragon age 2 saves and more for Origins...

 

How the hell do i play DAI with only 250?

Sadly, you have to pick older files to save over.  That's the only way to beat the limit.  ME3 was the same, as I found out the hard way.

[Mahumia]

I had the '250 saves only' message too... really ridiculous, as I prefer to go for the 'save OFTEN' approach too. It seems to not be just for the cloud, as I have disabled that one due to buggyness. 

[AlexMBrennan]

Once again, please try to brain before you post: when you load Dragon Age Inqusition, it presents you with a list of characters, and a list of save files to load with in-game location, playtime and even a nice screenshot.
To be able to present you with this list of characters, the game has to read all the save files - a task which would leave the game "hanging" unresponsively for at least 5min every time you launched it if you were to bypass this limit and allow thousands of save files (if you don't believe me then just disable the limit and copy-paste save files and see for yourself).

Until such a time that you, brilliant Nobel price winning computer scientist, discover a way to read an infinite number of files in less than 5s (that's the longest I'd guess you'd be willing to wait for the "load save" menu) it's either a limited number of save slots or abandoning the convenience features (I.e. You can have 10000 save slots, but the game isn't going to tell you which one you have to load to resume your elf mage play-through, or that you have to load elf_mage0287 to replay the cool boss fight)

[Teddie Sage]

They augmented the limit to 50 savefiles on PS4 on the last patch, though I wonder if they'll add more in the next one.

[Jeremiah12LGeek]

Is it only 25? That is a bit ridiculous... I don't know the limit on Xbone, yet, as I'm sticking to 10 saves with my first character, to avoid running into too many problems with the buggy save system.

 

I don't know how wide spread this feature is, But on XB 360 at least you can only have 25 total saves, this means that if you only have two manual saves each you are limited to 5 characters,

 

I'm not sure if I understand the math here... wouldn't it be 12 characters? Are the auto and Milestone saves being included?

[Terodil]

Alex, stop the laughable attempt to flame-bait. I'm not going to bite.

 

Your argument would only make sense if the game read entire files to extract the information relevant for that user operation (display list of available careers, savegames with details; pick savegame to load).

 

It doesn't. All it reads is header data, so small that processing even 1.000 files would take less than a second on current systems.

 

I am much more inclined to believe the theory proposed by somebody in the other savegame thread: that Bioware messed up the design of the loading screen UI. Reportedly, they aren't able to handle lists that exceed a certain length. They are allegedly looking into fixing that though.

[Ryzaki]

Sadly, you have to pick older files to save over.  That's the only way to beat the limit.  ME3 was the same, as I found out the hard way.

 

Nah.

 

ME3 at least had the save limit per character it wasn't a global limit.

 

I wouldn't mind a 50 save character limit. That's not bad.

[robertthebard]

I too am a staunch believer in "Save early and save often", and have been for a very long time. However, I'm also a believer in not needing to keep save files I'm not going to go back to. I don't pretend to know the reasons saves are limited. However, if I'm encountering an issue with it, I can go back to my two completed games and remove all but the last couple of saves in each file. I'm sure I'm not going to go back to my second save ever for any reason, so a lot of those can be removed with no adverse affects on my current save positions, especially if, as on my "completionist" run, all it's really doing is waiting to see what post campaign DLC may come out.

As stated, I don't know why the limits are there, but I can also police my own saves to eliminate "excess baggage" w/out having to delete complete games.

[Angry_Elcor]

 

Once again, please try to brain before you post

 

Wait, what?

 

try to brain before you post

 

Are you... using brain as a verb?

 

try to brain before

 

 

That's pretty damn funny. Trying to call someone else out for not being smart, when you don't even know how to write properly!