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each Steam game you have which uses Steam Cloud saves has a specific quota for storage, this quota varies quite a bit, but some games have quite a lot of quota:
chances are you don't have more than a few dozen megabytes of saves in any of these… so what if you could use the rest for nearly-free, general cloud storage?
You can't just post stuff like this, you're going to get the national guard called on you
Oh no I tripped and dropped all my documentation that someone can leverage https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/cloud I hope nobody reads it
Why are these factors of ten apart? Wait a second is this a power of ten number of bytes? It is. Wow.
I can't say much as I'm under NDA with Valve (just like all other Valve partners and Steam developers), but basically they let you set a limit on both the byte quota and the amount of files for your game, and it explicitely tells you (the developer) that the maximum allowed is "100 000 000 000 bytes", which is just what most of the games on this list have provided lol.
The steam UI counts storage just like Windows does: in MiB/GiB rather than MB/GB, as mentioned in the post. So 1 TB = 931GB, 100 GB = 93.1 GiB, etc. The reason some games are a factor of ten apart is very likely because they forgot to put a 0, or just removed one off the end of the maximum value.
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what if... i were to enable cloud backup on steam, and use it as my own storage? ho ho ho, delightfully devilish seymour
i attempted to do this on my own with rain world, and it seems to only backup files if they match the file type in a given folder that steam is trying to backup? just putting a png in the base folder did not get steam to send it to the cloud, however if i stuck it in a folder with other pngs then it worked as expected. i don't know if this is a quirk only with the specific game i'm trying or if you have to do it like that
some games use different rules, and I didn't take that into account in my calculations here; you can check their definitions in steamdb but there are plenty which don't have filters, and use steam auto cloud (which I believe you would need for this to be generalised)
yeah i figured that had to be the case, rain world was just the one game i could find in my library that uses up 100GB lol
Steam looking at your cloud usage setting servers on fire: Good LORD what is happening in here?
save game files?
a hundred billion bytes of saved games
containing images, rich text, music, videos, and spreadsheets
localised entirely on your steam account?
This reminds me of that one filesystem extension people used to use to use gmail attachments as a storage drive in the 00’s
