Not safe to store localization in player prefs

Our game has quite a large localization table(pulled from google spreadsheet). We have about 5300 terms, and eventually will have about 9 languages. For now most of those language columns are empty.

Already we are getting exceptions to the max data that can be stored in the player pref.
docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/PlayerPrefsException.html

The documentation suggests this exception is isolated to web player builds but we are getting it on desktop builds. Maybe that much data can't be stored in the registry in one key on windows or something.

The player prefs is not the place to store bulk data like this. Reaching the limit of pref storage in this way will likely also break the storage of other pref data completely unrelated to localization.

I would recommend downloading and caching data to a standalone file in Application.persistentDataPath(which would incidentally be easier to support multiple sources)

This should be a priority 1 bug I think.

excellent response time. thanks!