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[Mighty Poo]

So up until now I've pumped 16 hours into Dragon Age: Inquisition.

 

Today a friend signed into her Origin account on my PC, downloading her character to continue playing. Later I get home from work, log back into my account and realise I'm now playing as her character. On further investigation it seems that all of my local saves have been deleted and replaced with her cloud saves...

 

As a last resort I enabled cloud saves (apparently they were set to off, not sure why) hoping that perhaps it had in fact recorded a save; all this did was wipe the save game directory.

 

What kind of messed up system is this, with one save location for all Origin accounts that gets wiped in place of cloud saves. Going to ask for a refund, this is yet another reason to stick to Steam where the cloud saving works a treat.

[Darkfyre]

LOL

[Zorpen]

Did you try to press "change character" at load screen?

[Z.Z]

Didn't know that. Thanks I'll be careful as well.

There usually is a pop-up asking if you want to keep local content or cloud content. But yea, not having separate locations for different accounts just makes no sense.

[AlanC9]

That's weird. Anyone ever see anything like this with other Origin games? I've never had occasion to let someone borrow my PC so I can't test this.

[metatheurgist]

You should get together with the guy whose GF "accidentally" spilled water on his PC and drink some beer.

[Gygex]

This literally JUST happened to me, 22 hour character overwritten by my wife's cloud saves. What in the holy F*CK!!! Origin are you kidding me?!?! So its pointless to have cloud saves in the first place since you'll just wreck everyone else's saves on the PC that you switch to??! Bullsh*t!!! Fix this system now Origin!! EA strikes again....

[AlanC9]

I took a peek at the EA boards. Looks like EA assumed that people who shared a PC would set up different user accounts in Windows, so the save directories would be different anyway. I guess some people actually do that; I might if I had kids. But for my wife?

Note that the OP's friend is a little bit at fault here, since Origin would have asked her if she wanted to overwrite the existing saves with the cloud saves, and there weren't any of her own saves there to overwrite. Although I can see thinking that the message might just be an error.

[Esmonde12316]

Yep today just meet this problem..... 98 hours of game gone....

[Kantr]

Because the game doesnt discriminate on accounts once installed. So once you tell origin to download the files it will wipe them. It might be a consequence of the FB3 engine because save files arent put into folders based on characters.

 

Origins doesnt upload your saves until you tell it to.

[Attilathehun]

Because the game doesnt discriminate on accounts once installed. So once you tell origin to download the files it will wipe them. It might be a consequence of the FB3 engine because save files arent put into folders based on characters.

 

Origins doesnt upload your saves until you tell it to.

As far as i know they didn't asked if i want them to upload my saves  now they just wasted my time , why such an option is there in the first place

[Winged Silver]

That sucks that that happened to you. Starting over from scratch is never fun. 

 

Origin has a weird system. My online connection often shuts off after an interval of time (gotta love that campus wifi), so for a while, every time I tried to play, it'd pop up a message stating my cloud saves and hard drive saves were different, and which did I want to load. Very annoying.

 

I advise shutting off the cloud save, since it's probably just more reliable to use your PC's hard drive (assuming your PC is decently well maintained). If you ever want to download another save, or someone else's, and you're not sure what will happen to your old saves, just make a back up folder somewhere else.

 

 

[Winged Silver]

As far as i know they didn't asked if i want them to upload my saves  now they just wasted my time , why such an option is there in the first place

 

It's something you have to manually turn off in the account settings (I think that's where it is). It may have been part of the initial set up, but I'm  afraid I can't recall. 

[Kantr]

As far as i know they didn't asked if i want them to upload my saves  now they just wasted my time , why such an option is there in the first place

Steam does this too

[MaxQuartiroli]

I have a suggestion to prevent this from occurring

 

Since almost every game today stores its saves in the user's documents directory when you share a computer for games with other people create a different WINDOWS profile for each player. (just google for instructions if you don't know how to do it). By doing that every person will have to login in the pc with his/her windows account and you won't risk to overwrite reciprocally your saves because they will be stored on different profiles. Or, at least, create a "guest" user for occasional players. 

 

EDIT - This is obviously valid ONLY if you lend your PC to someone who has a different Origin Account. Don't do that if you share the same Origin account with your wife/GF/son/etc because things could even get worse then...