10-09-2022, 09:57 AM
(08-27-2022, 08:29 AM)starfish Wrote:(07-19-2022, 08:51 PM)Jesse Johannesen Wrote: I think the shift is there so you don't accidentally bork your favorite save. Like needing two keys to launch a nuke or something. I promise if we didn't have it there would be a ton of complaints about borked saves!
What 99,9 % of soft- and hardware does to avoid accidentially overwriting is a simple display message: "Are you sure?" Confirm. Done. No need for key combinations nobody can remember.
It's not only just about remembering the key combination, overwriting something that potentially took a long time to develop and probably can't be recovered needs enough friction to make the user think. A key combination is not enough, explicit confirmation, and a success/cancel message is the way to go.