'Savegame is from an older version...'

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I downloaded the game yesterday, played it for hours and thought it was pretty good.

Then I started it up today to continue playing, but... all of my savegames read "Save game is from an older version of Sins and cannot be loaded." I don't recall installing any patches. Did the game upgrade itself and invalidate all my savegames without even NOTIFYING me, much less asking? Or is there just a bug which makes it impossible to load your savegames?

 

Frankly, either option spells 'Big Freaking Showstopper Issue' to me. And also 'I Want A Refund' if the problem persists.

 

*sigh* I was really looking forwards to playing it today again... but what's the point? I can't finish a game like that in one sitting, and I apparently can't count on being able to continue a saved game later, either.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

That's the evil of Steam. It will auto update your games if you don't specifically turn it off (though the update from 0.96 to 1.01 might have been forced as it was the release version). Double check to make sure you turned that setting off. And sorry for your loss. :(

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

yep. steam evil. oh well. now you know.

Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

...but I didn't download the Beta or anything like that. >_> I downloaded it after the public release. Wasn't that supposed to be version 1.01?

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting BlakeTheDrake, reply 3
...but I didn't download the Beta or anything like that. I downloaded it after the public release. Wasn't that supposed to be version 1.01?
End of BlakeTheDrake's quote

If you downloaded it right around 1pm, that was still the beta version. There was a delay in deploying the real one.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Tridus, reply 5

Quoting BlakeTheDrake, reply 3...but I didn't download the Beta or anything like that. I downloaded it after the public release. Wasn't that supposed to be version 1.01?

If you downloaded it right around 1pm, that was still the beta version. There was a delay in deploying the real one.
End of Tridus's quote

 

~_~

 

...right. Well, if that's really what happened, I suppose I can at least assume that it was a one-time event. Still sucks, but ah well. At least this time, I'll know to start a game with Pirates disabled. Frankly, I'd hoped they'd tone them down in the sequel, but they're as willing-suspension-of-disbelief-breakingly overpowered as always... I stopped playing last night right around the time when I located the pirate's home base and found it surrounded by an Armada easily twice the size of every other fleet in the galaxy put together. Despite the grand total of bounties paid throughout the entire game being somewhere on the south side of 1000 credits. Why they bother launching 'raids' instead of just conquering the universe outright is beyond me...

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting GoaFan77, reply 1
That's the evil of Steam. It will auto update your games if you don't specifically turn it off (though the update from 0.96 to 1.01 might have been forced as it was the release version). Double check to make sure you turned that setting off. And sorry for your loss.
End of GoaFan77's quote

Actually yeah, Steam tends to update games even when I tell it not to.  Even when I take it offline.

You know what this means.  Soon, the Steam logo is going to crumble away and reveal its true NYSE-registered corporate name: Datadyne.  Before long the robots will rise, and we'll be forced into a world of flaming television sets, rubble from once-proud buildings, and Arnold Schwarzenegger attack squads.

Quoting BlakeTheDrake, reply 6


...right. Well, if that's really what happened, I suppose I can at least assume that it was a one-time event.
End of BlakeTheDrake's quote

Back when the original game launched, so many successive updates happened (and prevented loading old saves) that I stopped playing for a while.  This was when I still had it on DVD (and distributed by Stardock's game market) and I'm pretty sure it wasn't even on Steam yet. 

So while it's not a one time thing, I do believe they've since begun pacing the updates.  I do know the pain, man.