10 Insane Reasons That Video Games Were Missing Features
7. No Clouds Saves To Prevent Cheating - Splatoon 2
The ability to backup your game saves in the cloud is basically just expected nowadays, so many fans were taken aback when Nintendo announced that Splatoon 2 wouldn't feature cloud save functionality at all.
Their reasoning was that, due to online multiplayer data being stored client-side rather than server-side, it would potentially allow players to abuse cloud saves in order to manipulate their online rankings, in turn unbalancing the entire game.
Even ignoring how absurd it is for a video game released in 2017 to store multiplayer data on the player's system, it was a lousy excuse on the part of Nintendo, given that cheaters had an absolute field day with Splatoon 2 regardless from the very first day it launched.
Preventing cloud saves did basically nothing to combat this, and only punished those who wanted to secure their data.
Thankfully Nintendo did at least hear the vocal outcry, as Splatoon 3 introduced cloud saves for offline play, while storing all multiplayer data on Nintendo's own servers.