While I don't care too much about the cloud saving myself, you are clearly underestimating the catalog they offer by a lot; there are hundreds of games that runs also on your average laptop, and many have cloud support, even some small indie ones.

As of now, there are almost 200 cloud-enabled titles and not even a half is high profile-top hardware games... hell, they even retrofitted the old Doom and Monkey Island titles with that!

It seems like a good idea, probably when you start the game it can ask you if you want to connect to some kind of cloud service for a game. But how much would this cost GoG? I don't think GoG makes anywhere near as much as Steam.

That's true, even your cruddy work laptop will run something like Defense Grid while you're stuck on the road in some shithole backwater for a week.
Maybe we could launch this in our community, the software should run as a daemon anyway in the background and will probably have to be manually configured for each game. Just insert Dropbox account creds and configure the games you want saved. The service itself and synch its config up to Dropbox so when you start it on a new machine you just have to enter the creds and it configures itself.

This, I travel back and forth a bit to my hometown and sometimes I feel like firing up a game I already have on my PC, then realize I don't have the saves with me and don't want to play through what I've already finished.

Mine won't run Defense Grid at a decent speed! Plus, being stuck on the road in some backwater shithole means you probably won't be able to get your Steam Cloud saves anyway if you can't get online.

But yeah, I guess that Steam does have a fair bit of laptop-friendly stuff with Steam Cloud support. Just my Anno 2008 mid-range laptop can't seem to cut most of it.

It'sd definitely doable. Probably there is already a suitable tool out there. One would have to look for synchronization tools with ftp storage capabilities. If there isn't such a tool it has to be invented. It would be quite generic, independent from GOG's special business.

Unless you have your Android powered phone with you and tether wireless :P

That was my previous solution to my Steam woes when I was stuck in Haffkrug for two weeks with no internet. Of course, when you're stuck in the arse-end of the world, cellphone reception is also at a premium. I had to hold my laptop and phone out on the balcony so that it would connect for me to switch on offline mode. I think I was trying for about an hour and then I got it to stay in offline for the whole time.

On the plus side, I did briefly meet Armin Müller-Stahl while I was there.

This sounds like an interesting project, the idea on how to do it is simple enough*, and I'm sure my coding skills are up to snuff as well... my problem would be that it's difficult to start bothering enough to actually build a working solution (or half-working, for that matter).

*detect installed games, find out where they shove their saves, set up a remote service to sync with (WebDAV/HTTP(S), (S)FTP, some common revision control system(s), something else...), then start copying back and forth as stuff changes (or possibly even change games' settings to save online directly if the remote location can be mapped to a drive).

True, but sometimes I'd like to have the cloud saves available if I have re-installed Windows, or decided to uninstall some game earlier and later wanted to reinstall it. When my PC was about to be wiped out (upgrading WinXP => Win7), I was busy trying to salvage all the save games from various games before the migration. I think I missed some.

Good point though that as many GOG games are running in DOSBox, how feasible cloud saving would be for them. I think Steam sells some DOS games too, I wonder if they support cloud saves too? I checked e.g. the first two XCom games, at least they don't mention Steam cloud. On the other hand, Doom 2 does.

But maybe this is not top priority on what GOG should work on...

well atleast gog stores the save games in their install folder.
unlike today's games.

And that is a good thing how?

For those of us who run a seperate hard drive dedicated to games specifically. I personally hate my saves being saved on my OS drive, I want them on the game drive period. I can reinstall windows all I want with older games and I don't have to reinstall, all information still exists on that drive.

The same thing with the idea of having a GOG client, I guess. As long as it is totally, definitely, ultimately, fully OPTIONAL, then I guess I don't mind, although I won't be using it either.

That being said, honestly I think I'd rather GOG staffs focus their attention elsewhere, like bringing more games first.