Hi there,

I saw this topic was opened in february 2023 and it was called for "future consideration", except it's 2025 and I'd really like an update on that. I've mailed cfforstudios@overwolf.com on this and thus I am here.

Now, getting back to our sheep, I think Cloud integration through something like Microsoft Azure would be beneficial and a really great add-on. I do realize it implies some costs per month, in the thousands of dollars, + bandwidth and whatnot, but I would still recommend cloud through a service like Microsoft rather than setting up your own servers with RAID1 / RAID10 storages, specifically because they would have to be local and the bandwidth would be deficitary at best for a big part of the community, and it isn't really viable to have servers set up across the globe. The maintenance would be hell, I know.

"Why Cloud?" Why not? I am stuck in this infinite loop of copy-pasting my save file between my work laptop and my home computer (I travel a lot throughout the country, and in the little spare time I have I spend it on Curseforge)

"With 20M monthly users, that would mean +20 petabytes." Theoretically yes, but let's face it, not a lot of people want that, and it should be a "you can pay for this also, extra to your current membership subscription" and let me tell you dev, I am down to pay more than I already paid for the membership to have this ability at hand. I am used to Valve's Cloud integration, I believe considering Porofessor can have access to files, Curseforge can be configured in the same way.

"Yeah but all the saves from all the instances of Minecraft?" I realize a save-file can go from 10MB to 2GB in the span of hours because of all the exploration, except I would force it to be Cloud per game and per instance. Else you could make it so the monthly Cloud subscription is in multiple forms, in accordance to the Cloud storage an user opts for.

To counter the possible future allegations that "oh curseforge is so pay-to-win now and it's bad and..." blah blah blah, it's a premium feature that allows me to do much more than ever before, why would I say no to that? Whoever would call that a bad strategy surely doesn't know that the end-client would pay more for greater service, because greater service means faster and easier response and solutioning.

Thanks for your consideration,

Best regards,

Cristian,

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