Save Points, A desperate plea Options

[rewells]

Hey y'all,

I've been meaning to write a post about this for a while, but it keeps slipping my mind until now. I get really annoyed when games do not have save points. The majority of non-RM games I play do have save points, so I am used to relying on them, not having to save just whenever I think about it. I'm glad that RM lets you save anywhere by default, but you could at least put some reminder to save before a boss or after a long cutscene. In most commercial RPGs, save points let me know when the challenge is going to increase (i.e., a boss fight is up ahead) or to let me know that a cutscene is about to happen, so I know if it's a good time to to take a bathroom break or call it quits for the night. They help me pace my the experience, and, most importantly, they remind me to save so I don't have to replay the same 20 minutes of game play!

Thank you

[Sailerius]

If I'm playing an RPG and it has save points, I will probably flat out stop playing.

What if I'm playing the game on the go and I need to stop playing suddenly? I mostly play games on my commute now and I just can't play games with save points because they never correspond with when I reach my stop. Then I have to reload my last save and lose a bunch of progress.

If your game balance requires save points, you're bad at game balance. There's no reason to artificially constrain the players and annoy them just because you think it makes the game more fun. Respect your players' time.