Thanks for the wisdom, McLaren. Corporations don't have enough folks sticking up for them.
Turned on the game after last night's update to find all my garage cars gone with the exception of those made available through the Collector's Edition. Well done, Polyphony! You've made your last $60 off me; will never buy another game from this company.
Has anyone else had this issue happen? I haven't loaded up the game so I'm not sure on my end, but if you are the only one, I'm not sure id hold it against PD either. Crap happens, thats why backing up your data is a thing to do.
Thanks for the wisdom, McLaren. Corporations don't have enough folks sticking up for them.
It may not be PD fault, but it is kind of your fault because you should have done a backup save on a daily basis. You should have save it onto a online storage or to a USB, just relying an in game save to the server is very risky, because you never know if there is going to be and problem with that save, and it is better to be safe than sorry.Turned on the game after last night's update to find all my garage cars gone with the exception of those made available through the Collector's Edition. Well done, Polyphony! You've made your last $60 off me; will never buy another game from this company.
It may not be PD fault, but it is kind of your fault because you should have done a backup save on a daily basis. You should have save it onto a online storage or to a USB, just relying an in game save to the server is very risky, because you never know if there is going to be and problem with that save, and it is better to be safe than sorry.
Yeah right because we have nothing better to do than doing daily backups of our PS4s and PD surely can't afford a person in the QA department to check whether they don't screw the saves when rolling out an update.
To be honest I am not sure whether your post is meant seriously or as some kind of twisted satire.
If you have ever seen a game that saves locally where it is impossible to get a corrupt save, then I'd love to read about this technical marvel
Its really easy to blame PDs QA until you realise that corrupt saves are literally an industry wide issue
Then this industry is seriously flawed, because then apparently they don't give a crap.
No one can tell me that this is the way it should be, even from a purely economic standpoint this is complete nonsense: millions of people wasting time on doing backups vs. a handful of people checking whether the updates don't screw the saves.
Except when in your view the economy stops at the publisher's doorstep and our time is worth nothing - an utterly unacceptable view in my opinion.
Then this industry is seriously flawed, because then apparently they don't give a crap.
No one can tell me that this is the way it should be, even from a purely economic standpoint this is complete nonsense: millions of people wasting time on doing backups vs. a handful of people checking whether the updates don't screw the saves.
Except when in your view the economy stops at the publisher's doorstep and our time is worth nothing - an utterly unacceptable view in my opinion.
There will always be people who understand that making a bug-free game is simply impossible. And things like this happen. And than you have people who always want everything for free in life. And its always others to blame but themselves when something goes wrong.
Thats just like real life I guess...
digital stuff is lost if it gets corrupted or damaged and there's no backups, so you should make backups every so often, in fact you don't even have to if you have ps plus since the playstation does it automatically. it's a computer problem not a gaming problem. unexpected data loss threatens every industry that uses a computer, which is every industry, which is why they all use backups. this is like getting angry at a pair of shoes because they wont tie themselves
No, it is not hard to have sufficient testing and checks to prevent screwing a save game when doing an update
If you have PS plus do not set it automatically upload , save it by doing a manual save it is better that way, because if there is a problem with your in game save, well you may have a problem with you backup save on PS plus.digital stuff is lost if it gets corrupted or damaged and there's no backups, so you should make backups every so often, in fact you don't even have to if you have ps plus since the playstation does it automatically. it's a computer problem not a gaming problem. unexpected data loss threatens every industry that uses a computer, which is every industry, which is why they all use backups. this is like getting angry at a pair of shoes because they wont tie themselves
You do that do you? Manual back ups after every session?It may not be PD fault, but it is kind of your fault because you should have done a backup save on a daily basis. You should have save it onto a online storage or to a USB, just relying an in game save to the server is very risky, because you never know if there is going to be and problem with that save, and it is better to be safe than sorry.
It's amazing to see the amount of defensiveness and apologist attitudes towards PD being displayed in this thread. Corrupt save files are not normal! I've been playing console games since the NES and I've only ever experienced one corrupt save (Infamous).
We're not talking about the power going out while it's saving. There is a whole thread of people whose entire progress has been deleted, with no seeming direct user cause. Just random data corruption. This is simply unacceptable, especially for a first-party studio.
Yes to your question 👍.You do that do you? Manual back ups after every session?
I have been playing GT since inception and I have never done this. I have never done this for any game ever since PS1. I have never had a problem until yesterday after the update. First I had the "cannot retrieve Bop" error then the cars missing error and as of now all I get is a spinning loading wheel once I try to go into sports mode.
Anecdotal evidence does not make a case against something that is present in an industry. Sucks for OP, but he had the means to prevent this. This is essentially crying over spilt milk. And saying “corporations don’t have enough people defending them” sounds like something an edgelord on Reddit would say.
Stuff happens, that’s why you try to prepare for it.
I'm not debating the precautions against data loss. Obviously this is necessary since PD seems to not give af about people's entire progress being wiped out. But as someone who does coding work, this is not just "something that happens". There are ways to protect data when saving, including saving to a temp file and verifying the integrity of the data on that file before replacing the old one. That's why this seemingly widespread problem is so egregious -- because it's entirely preventable.