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by JamesSwift 878 days ago
It only works for certain classes of products. A game has decidedly few copies (will just be your own saves across multiple devices), and is already serializing in a singular high-level format. When you have business software that is used my multiple people, and has multiple different 'kinds' of things that are being reconciled (at varying levels of granularity), it gets really messy and really hard to hit the sweet spot.