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[Snoopy1955]

 After finishing the single-player campaign, and seeing that it brought me back to a key point in the plot again, I didn't put too much more thought into the single-player campaign. I mean, I knew it was still there, and I knew that there was going to be downloadable content, and I had heard that there was going to be a free little thing to add some clarity to the rather vague ending, but beyond thinking, "boy I'm glad I don't have to plow all of the way through the game again to find out what they added to the end when that patch comes through, not much thought. That of course was until today, when I popped my game disc in and noticed that my usual team of friends who I plowed through multi-player maps with was not on, and I thought to myself, "Well, their loss, I'm gonna go rock out some single-player, see what happens if I make a different choice at the end".
This was a brilliant plan, and was one that I was looking forward to when the little screen thing on that desktop opened up. It was at that moment that I noticed that something truly horrible had taken place. The options to continue or to load a save were absent from the list of choices that greeted me. I stared at the screen blankly for a few long moments thinking, "No. This is some sort of trick right? It just needs a moment to load...maybe if I exit the game and come back in it'll be back, right?"
Now, I'm sure the psychology majors out there are taking note that this is the first stage of grief, known as denial.
I'm still in that step, which is why I'm mentioning it instead of cursing and turning off my PS3 to go do something else, so lets continue on.
I thought briefly about what had happened, and tried to come up with a logical reason as to why it might have happened. It really didn't make much sense in my head.
I didn't really come up with any clear ideas, as to why my single-player save would be there, and then without me really looking at it for a few weeks, not be there.
Did the geth infiltrater that I promoted a few weeks go rogue and sneak up on my save file Sheppard and murder him? Did my single-player save file get sad and lonely and run off to find someone else who would play with it? Is ME3 mad at me for loading up Skyrim again this past weekend, or did Skyrim maybe shoot my ME3 save in the knee with an arrow?

Obviously my above answers are me taking a stab at humor (I mean, in the event that my saves aren't coming back I think I at least deserve a few laughs for the 30-something hours that I put into them)
Seriously though, if anyone has any ideas as to how to fix this, or even what it was that might have been the cause, I'm all ears, after all, looks like I'm going to have to pour another 30-something hours into making the same choices again (maybe I won't pop Udina this time)

[Snoopy1955]

 So, after taking a break to not have my head explode, I turned on my PS3 again, hoping that maybe after a reboot my save file may have magically come back, or forgotten that it was dead or something. My luckregarding this particular topic has not actually changed.
After browsing my PS3 data I found the data that I had been looking for. It was labeled "John Infiltrator", which made sense, but for some reason it was corrupted.
It would seem that something in multi-player did indeed kill my single-player saves. Apparently ME3 keeps all of the saves for a character in one neet little file so that when one of them dies all of them die.

[Lee80]

corrupted files & Bioware do go together well on the ps3. That sucks though, but I doubt it was multiplayer's fault. Multiplayer doesn't have a save file, it's stored on the network, I know because I recently got a new ps3 and all my multiplayer stuff was waiting for me when I re installed my game. Though I do have the PSN version, so maybe it's different on the disk copy. (if that's what you have)

[Snoopy1955]

Lee80alabama wrote...

corrupted files & Bioware do go together well on the ps3. That sucks though, but I doubt it was multiplayer's fault. Multiplayer doesn't have a save file, it's stored on the network, I know because I recently got a new ps3 and all my multiplayer stuff was waiting for me when I re installed my game. Though I do have the PSN version, so maybe it's different on the disk copy. (if that's what you have)

It just doesn't make sense to me that the data would corrupt for absolutely no reason, which is what seems to have happened. I thought that maybe it might have had something to do with multi-player characters becoming war assets.

[Lee80]

Snoopy1955 wrote...

Lee80alabama wrote...

corrupted files & Bioware do go together well on the ps3. That sucks though, but I doubt it was multiplayer's fault. Multiplayer doesn't have a save file, it's stored on the network, I know because I recently got a new ps3 and all my multiplayer stuff was waiting for me when I re installed my game. Though I do have the PSN version, so maybe it's different on the disk copy. (if that's what you have)

It just doesn't make sense to me that the data would corrupt for absolutely no reason, which is what seems to have happened. I thought that maybe it might have had something to do with multi-player characters becoming war assets.

I guess that's possible.  I did some rethinking about it after I posted and I have to admit the whole save system is certainly a bit complicated.  I don't know what all is saved in the single player file and what isn't.  I suppose it's possible, but who knows-  if you enjoy multiplayer I wouldn't stop playing it for fear of coruption though.  I wish that there was real tech support on this game so we would have answers about problems such as these.  However, from what all I've read on this board the only outreach here is customer service that doesn't really know much (or anything) about the tech side of things.  Customer service is more like "oh you didn't get your online pass code, let me help you out" not tech savey wizards that would be needed to fix the many issues people seem to be running into.  

[Snoopy1955]

 it won't  stop me from playing, after all, I don't have anything to lose since it only ate my campaign progress.
After taking some time to cool off about the whole thing I'm not as upset as I was yesterday either, because now I know that when the awesome dlc that we have all been promised gets dropped, I will have a very different, and likely, much more fulfilling experience with that since I'll be starting at square one and will be able to use whatever cool things I get in the story instead of having an arsenal of new weapons qnd characters and only two or three missiions to the end to see just what is what.
I'm still not pleased to be starting the story from page one again, but it is what it is.

[Bigjosh951]

Yeah I lost my single player twice. Just froze for the sixteenth time and had to do a hard reset on multiplayer once again. This time though it was during an extraction on a gold match. Always nice to lose 70k credits. Bioware and their response to these problems has been horrendous. They can stick their company line and hurt feelings up their ass.

[megabug7]

Since an MP crash my main PSN ID has a corrupted ME3 profile which is preventing me from getting the platinum trophy as some of the counters are stuck.

I've not bothered replaying it on that ID as it's pointless.

Instead have been playing it on my secondary PSN ID (5th playthrough).
Had a few hiccups and glitches but I am avoiding MP.

[Snoopy1955]

megabug7 wrote...

Since an MP crash my main PSN ID has a corrupted ME3 profile which is preventing me from getting the platinum trophy as some of the counters are stuck.

I've not bothered replaying it on that ID as it's pointless.

Instead have been playing it on my secondary PSN ID (5th playthrough).
Had a few hiccups and glitches but I am avoiding MP.

I am both sorry and relieved to hear that I am not the only one suffering from the mysterious "lol your single-player work is gone" error.
I promoted another character today to see if it might remind my save files that they did work, but it doesn't  seem to have had any positive effect on the corrupted data. It seemed like it might work at the time, but obviously not.

I'll keep trying things as I think of them and tell you all if I get any noteworthy results.

[Snoopy1955]

 I was thinking about trying to import my ME2 character again without clearing out the corrupted character profile data or whatever it is from the xmb. Not entirely sure what might happen if I do that, kind of hoping that it might remind the save file that it is in fact a save file and get it to start working properly again. Maybe I'll try it in a little bit and get back to you guys with whatever the result was.

[Snoopy1955]

 Yeah, that didn't work in the way I hoped it would. I am starting from the beginning again.
It would have been nice if I could have grabbed my corrupted data for a backup before I did this, but it is what it is.

[Sirmalek]

I had to reinstall the game 2 times already. Thankfully the character saves themselves have been okay but the game file and profile keeps getting corrupted for me.