Lord of the Seal Update Wipes All Save Data - First TIme I've Ever Heard of Something Like This

[Crichax]

Lord of the Seal is a Japanese indie Etrian Odyssey/Wizardry clone that's quite fun from what I've played of the demo. But according to the dev himself, you have to wipe all save data before you can get all of the features of the new 2019 update.

https://archive.md/6EJO0

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

I've never heard of an update that wipes a game save before.

 

[garakfan69]

That old save games become incompatible after patches happens from time to time, especially with smaller devs.
It really fucked me in Clear Sky. Where I had to wait for a patch to solve a game breaking bug in the last mission which then couldn't load my old saves.

 

[zRayden940]

Star trek Online did that when they concluded pre-beta testing phases. They wiped the pre-beta testers progress once they went live. I was one of the testers

 

[Diesel Boogaloo]

I've never heard of an update that wipes a game save before.

It's not a wipe, it's safe incompatibility.
But most games with this issue will simply fail to load the save, not load it and then crap out later.

 

[Crichax]

That old save games become incompatible after patches happens from time to time, especially with smaller devs.
It really fucked me in Clear Sky. Where I had to wait for a patch to solve a game breaking bug in the last mission which then couldn't load my old saves.

Honestly, LotS seems like a unique RPG Maker game and I'm thinking about picking it up. But it's still a damn shame this happened at all.

 

[RetardedCat]

I've never heard of an update that wipes a game save before.

You've never played Early Access games then
Rise to Ruins changed the way they handled saves a couple months ago, older saves all became incompatible and won't ever be supported again.

 

[Oddjob OTP]

This is actually really common. Sometimes devs will give you tools to update a save, but other times they won't (or can't).

 

[Super Color Up]

Unless it's an AAA game, chances are, updates from smaller indie studios will completely bork your save file. More often then not, they're updating spaghetti code, and usually break a lot of things. Bungie and Ubisoft are especially guilty of this, so it's not too uncommon. Still disgraceful and shameful, though. If you can't even ensure your customers save files surviving unless you absolutely have to change how the saving works, then you have no business doing so and should really hire some competent code monkeys. I hear Ukraine is in dire need of them.

...I really hope Atomic Heart comes out unscathed.

 

[JimmerSnail]

I've never heard of an update that wipes a game save before.

Starbound's beta used to have some wipes too

 

[Some Manajerk]

Riders of Icarus did the same thing if you were an Alpha/Beta tester. they did give you some nice gear to wear in the main release version to show you were one of the beta testers.

 

[Bicycle Disaster]

rpgmaker sperging:
iirc it's a common problem with rpgmaker games, there were efforts to make some sort of a "save import" plugin for devs but it's probably outdated by now

generally, if it involves changing in-game events and variables then old saves will likely crash the game

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

It happens and have been happening for a long time. Fallout 2 was a big release and their update borked the saves. At least it fixed it so that the car and trunk of the car traveled together and to the same destination.