This lame policy is frustrating as hell. Some of my aoe4 maps are epic. I play a couple hours one night, a couple hours another night, build up to the kill, then third night the game says ‘your saved game is unavailable!’ But I can browse to the saved game files… the saved games are right there! More frustrating is there is no way to disable force-fed updates! Going to explore playing always offline, or using a dns hack to fault the updater process. I was all ready to go in for the kill tonight! I just read today’s patch notes and they have zero impact on my saved game I have been working on. Nothing nerfs a game like programmatically preventing buyers of it from being able to finish a game.
I was all amped up to finish my game tonight to destress from rl work. I just don’t have it in me to start it all over again. Prospective buyers be warned: AOE4 is a good game but the devs will not allow you to finish saved games. There really is no point to saving games in AOE4. So unless you are certain you hav a HUGE BLOCK OF TIME TO FINSIUH THE GAME IN ONE SETTING, aoe4 IS NOT WORHT YOUR TIME OR MONEY.
I miss the good ol days when players were allowed to finish the saved games. Why even have a save option? Makes no sense.
F it - Im done with aoe4… a game is no fun when your game saves are rendered useless before you can finish your game.All my other games have working save functionality. Why play a game when your progress will be erase on a periodic basis?
I agree with you, I absolutely do not understand why they delete saved games in the campaign. The game version was updated, that’s okay. But the Campaign has not been patched since its release and all updates do not affect it. So why delete our saves in the single-player Campaign?
Or are we missing don’t understand…
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Patch updates modify game data which effectively corrupts saved games.
Replays are something I’d like them to solve, but in-progress games? There are alwaya going to be problems there.