GUI: (SaveLoad) - remove unnecessary dialog #3844
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The dialog "WARNING: Existing save has longer gameplay duration than the current state. Are you sure you want to overwrite it?" is not really helpful and seems to have more negative than positive impact on the user experience, so I have removed it.
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I also agree that this dialog is unnecessary and annoying, and removing it is the best course of action |
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This comes from #3308 |
I am not sure if that is supposed to be an argument in favor of that dialog. But at least @bluegr apparently has changed his mind about that dialog. He now calls it "unnecessary and annoying". ;-) So, maybe sev has started to hate that dialog, too? It is the whole point of this PR to evaluate whether we can remove that dialog or whether it is considered to be an improvement. |
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Yeah, my initial thoughts were that this dialog would be a useful feature. It has proven to be quite annoying sometimes, without providing any real value. Perhaps we could keep it for regular saves only (not auto saves)? Or to provide an option to turn it off? |
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Let me assure you that is exactly as annoying for non-auto saves. I don't even use auto saving. Whenever I save something in a SCUMM or SCI game in an existing slot it will randomly question my decision with that pointless dialog. The playing time in that save slot is completely irrelevant for me. I don't want to be asked that. I have never seen that sort of behaviour in any professional product. But maybe that's just me? Does anyone think/know that this is the normal thing for a game to do? |
Sorry if it was not clear, it was only a reminder from where this dialog comes because I wondered too. |
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Okay, turns out nobody voted in favour of the dialog. Merging... |
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Sorry, I'm late to the game and I see this has been merged already, but can't we turn this into a setting? While I don't have a strong opinion either way I wouldn't be surprised if there were users out there who appreciate(d) this feature. |
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I can only repeat myself: Have you ever seen that sort of behavior in any professional game product? |
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No, but I do happen to have overwritten the wrong savegames at some point which this could have prevented :) So, I don't see it as an utterly useless feature. |
Well, let me just quote a team member on that topic whose description of the issue seems to be in perfect match with my own experience: |
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Haha, fair. Hence my proposal to keep it as non-default setting. You asked for team feedback and those are my two cents, that's all. But let's keep it buried since that seems to be the consensus. |
This is about the removal of the dialog
"WARNING: Existing save has longer gameplay duration than the current state. Are you sure you want to overwrite it?"
I think it has more negative than positive impact on the user experience, so I'd remove it.
I recently asked in the discord dev channel about it, but there wasn't much response. @dreammaster, @sluicebox and myself really don't like that dialog, but it is unclear whether everyone else thinks it is a great idea to have it.