I Lost Everything (In A Game)

[Zetona]

I was playing Gran Turismo 5 literally less than an hour ago when the power went out. When I restarted my PS3, I quickly realized that all my save data was lost and I'd have to start from absolutely nothing. I'd been playing GT5 since Christmas and was probably only an hour and a half from reaching level 30 and unlocking the Red Bull X1 (AKA the entire reason I'd put up with all the game's bullshit for that long.) Of course, all of that is now gone, and I will not start from scratch.

Who else has had something like this happen to them, all your progress lost because of something entirely beyond your control?

On a more personal note, I'm holding out hope that I can explain my plight to someone on the GT5 team and have something restored. Anyone who's done similar, what can I do?

 

[wooty]

This scenario is why I kind of miss memory cards, Hard drives are such fragile things really.

 

[LobsterFeng]

No way, my friend had the same thing happen to him. He kept calling them to tell him what was going on, but sony told them that they've never heard of anything like that ever happening. So he had to send his PS3 over to them, and in a month he got a new hardrive with all his save data still on it.

 

[Flippincrazy]

A similar thing happened to me when I was playing Pokemon Emerald on the Gameboy. All my team were up to about lvl 70 and I'd put in a good hundred hours into the game...and then the cartidge completely reset. To this day I have no idea why it happened. On the bright side... you get to have a whole bunch of fun replaying through the game...if you find that sort of repetition fun...which I certainly didn't...

 

[Distorted Stu]

Oh this takes me back to the PS2 days of accidental memory overwrites and save errors.


"No! No! No, fuck you Dragonball! I HAD EVERYTHING! UUGGHHHHH" - Me, raging at a game that takes ages to unlock everything due to no cheats being available.

 

[bombadilillo]

find a cheat code?

 

[Zetona]

This scenario is why I kind of miss memory cards, Hard drives are such fragile things really.

I once stupidly turned off a PS2 game while it was saving, but that only killed the one file, not the whole game data utility. The PS3 puts all the data under one file, though. It's unfortunate that games don't have safeguards against this sort of thing, but then again, why should they? It can't happen that often.

 

[bombadilillo]

My ps3 save of peggle got corrupted now that I think about it. The game would freeze at the loading screen. The tubes told me it was my save file. Deleted it and game worked fine. Had to start all over though.

In this case it was great though, because theres not much to do in peggle once you beat the challanges.

 

[EHKOS]

I hate freezes most of all. It is only then you realize what time it is and when the last time you saved was.

 

[Laser Priest]

Memory cards ftw.

I really hate the internal hard drive system, especially on hard drives that we can't move around.

At least I could carry the Xbox 360's hard drive and use my data elsewhere. It was like a really bulky, annoying memory card.

 

[Jimmy T. Malice]

I accidentally switched off my PS2 in the middle of saving... er, three times. With the same game. I also unintentionally overwrote my completed Good playthrough of inFamous, with 3/4 of the Blast Shards...
I guess these aren't really beyond my control. I'm just stoopid.

 

[chromewarriorXIII]

This happened to me with Fallout 3. I had fully leveled up my character and put probably 20 or so hours into them when I lost it all. Ever since I save in 2 save slots on Fallout 3 and NV just in case.

 

[000Ronald]

Awhile back all of my gameboy stuff (a Gameboy SP, 15 or so games, and some cash I had with it) was stolen. Since then I've only been able to get back three of the games I lost, and got a broken gameboy from a relative (An old DS, but the top screen doesn't work, and the shoulder buttons are wonky).

So...yeah. I feel your pain.

 

[bad rider]

Then title reminds me of almost every time I play mine-craft.

Yay I've got all the diamond I need, now all I need to do is head ba...*turns around sees eight creepers coming towards him*

.... Shit

 

[Psychoid]

My 360 once froze during my first ever playthrough of Oblivion - I reset it to find that my save file was corrupted - 200-odd hours of game time down the drain

Of course, that was two 360s ago, and I've played through Oblivion another 3 or 4 times since then, but that's not the point...

 

[Stryc9]

Not beyond control but not too long ago I was playing the Destroy All Humans game on the Wii and turned the game off without exiting all the way back to the Wii menu and it destroyed all of my save data. I was about halfway through the game too. I started going back through it but haven't played it in a couple of months.

 

[thejackyl]

Not on a console, but I got brute force hacked in WoW. Didn't have an authenticator, and my password was around 18 digits of caps, numbers, and letters. And yes, I did scan my system for a keylogger, nothing was found, so I was brute force'd.

Lost all of my gear, all of my novelty items; hell, they even sold my bags, even the ones in the bank. And to top it all off, they logged me out, naked, in the middle of Icecrown surrounded my enemies.

On top of that, they took as much as they could out of the guild bank (which was a lot, since I had 10 stacks/tab and our bank had 6 tabs)

Anyways, I contacted Blizzard, they got my gear and my rare items back, but couldn't get all of my items for some reason, and they reimbursed me with twice the gold I lost and some emblems and whatnot to buy gear.

When this first happened (they had my account info and what not) I was debating formatting my hard drive, just in case it WAS a keylogger

Still feels worse than when people have actually robbed me, since I could only imagine them logging in and getting greeted my my guild mates, and masquerading as me. (potential) Identity theft is a lot scarier that simply getting robbed. Since when you get robbed, you know what all you lost, when they steal your identity, you don't necessarily know.

 

[IndianaJonny]

No way, my friend had the same thing happen to him. He kept calling them to tell him what was going on, but sony told them that they've never heard of anything like that ever happening. So he had to send his PS3 over to them, and in a month he got a new hardrive with all his save data still on it.

So Sony treats its PS like Rothchild & Co. (Ashley Wood) treats its robots:

"My Dear Edwin

You're imagining things on all acounts, Rothchild robots never break down and as for your mythical super-mechanics I can attest first hand that no such employees have ever existed. Rothchild robots are designed to deploy first time every time."

 

[Cybele]

Something like this happened to me once but it was entirely my fault.
I was playing Thief: Deadly Shadows. I had gotten to the Cradle level, took one good look at it, then closed the game and went to look for a save so I could skip that part. Found a save, copied it into the proper folder, then started the game again only to find out that all my save have been messed up somehow. Had to start over again. This time I pulled myself together and managed to beat the Cradle tho.

 

[Euhan01]

Lost my Minecraft save the other day, goodness nows how many hours lost.