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[Czech Monster]

Seems like there are MANY people having this issue yet EA nor BIOWARE has yet to even acknowledge the issue. EA is really making a bad name for BIOWARE, I was in LIVE chat queue for over 50 minutes and got disconnected when it was my turn, when I tried to send them an email, my connection mysteriously timed out. This is getting ridiculous.

Modifié par Czech Monster, 27 janvier 2010 - 04:47 .

[Seeker_MOC]

vagrantwade wrote...

What is checking your achievement going to accomplish?

It literally IMPORTS DATA when you do a character import. That is how ME2 knows your answers to specific questions in the first game. It also transfers your character's appearance.

How about you read what we're saying.  WE STILL HAVE THE DATA TO IMPORT.  Our saves are all still there.  The only thing that we're missing is the hidden file that verifies that we completed the game, which can be erased for a vareity of minor reasons.

[Czech Monster]

I HAVE THE FILE ON MY HDD! ALL OF THEM! THE ORIGINAL HDD I USED TO PLAY MS1! So take your logical fail and stuff it!

[Seeker_MOC]

No, I didn't wipe it out. I had a RRoD, and when you get your Xbox back the cache is erased. Bioware should have realized this. And not everybody still has ME1 lying around. So if you're not going to say anything helpful, and you're not having this problem, then get out of this thread.

[iceofwolf]

vagrantwade wrote...

Seeker_MOC wrote...

vagrantwade wrote...

What is checking your achievement going to accomplish?

It literally IMPORTS DATA when you do a character import. That is how ME2 knows your answers to specific questions in the first game. It also transfers your character's appearance.

How about you read what we're saying.  WE STILL HAVE THE DATA TO IMPORT.  Our saves are all still there.  The only thing that we're missing is the hidden file that verifies that we completed the game, which can be erased for a vareity of minor reasons.

Because you went to your hdd settings and wiped out that data yourself.

That is not biowares fault. Go back to your save, beat Saren in like 2 minutes, and walah.

Reading comprehension ftw.

If people had gone to their hdd settings (another fail to even assume so many people know how to do that), that doesn't explain how some people are able to import one character, but not another.

I have three characters in ME1.  My first one beat it on casual.  My second one beat it at the highest difficulty newly unlocked.  Then played through again to try to reach 60.  I only got to 54 on that character after beating Saren.  Then I started a third character and only got to Eden before something else distracted me.

Obviously, the third character doesn't show up on the list.  I've successfully imported my first character.  My second character shows up on the list, but is orange and can't be imported for some reason.  (Can't even be selected.)  In between playing ME1 and ME2, I've had a graphics card error and replaced my box, but kept the hard drive.

There's no "simple" explanation for this bug and it's not "people are being stupid".  The game is checking for something and we simply don't know what that is.

Besides, jumping to the assumption that people are just doing things wrong and being stupid about it is... well... kinda stupid.

[DirkBelig]

vagrantwade wrote...

I am sorry but why are people being so dumb in this thread...

You honestly are blaming Bioware because you think ME2 should be able to import data from another hard drive? Really? New to computers/consoles?

Does it hurt when Bioware touches you there or do they grease you up before rogering you?

As the aggrieved have noted, the fact that there were some serious dealbreaker issues with the import function was hidden from the customers. NOWHERE on the Mass Effect site proper does it say that the save MUST be on a hard drive; MUST NOT be a character rerunning the game, but not having completed that 2nd run; etc. That info is hidden away. Either thru incompetence or deceit, people like us who were told "if you have your old save, you'll be able to continue on" are stuck with either having to jump through some high hoops if they even have the option short of rebuying and replaying the entirety of ME1.

In the first couple of hours of ME2, I already see that the game has chosen the alternate result of the Cerberus nuking that I did. I saved Ashley in my game, but she's dead in Bioware's default. (I don't know if it's because I'm playing a female Shepard and a male will get Ashley alive for potential romance. Anyone know?) My 40 hours of gameplay and all the choices I made are scrapped because of this snafu.

If, in fact, clearing your disc cache to resolve other issues wipes out this secret mandatory file, it's even worse because it means that Bioware is making it's prime selling feature dependent on something not happening that no user would know not to do. It's not as if anyone told us, "Yeah, right, you see, not only do you need to use the original Xbox hard drive to import the save, but if you cleared the cache, it won't work." It's amazing that blind fanboy apologists can't see just how misleadingly this has all been handled.

It's telling that while Bioware is scampering to address their EA masters' problems with Cerberus Network and DLC codes - all needless crap meant to enrich EA and inconvenience gamers - they are silent as church mice over this import disaster. While happy mop boys may feel that Bioware's legacy buys them immunity from criticism, those of us unpleasantly surprised that what we bought doesn't work as advertised for no foretold reason disagree strongly.

I'm going to drag over to my g/f's place across town after work and see if I can run ME2 and see if it can import a game and then save it to a MU which will then be transferred to my home Xbox. If I can't then I guess I'm hosed and Bioware can kiss any future money from me goodbye. No $60 for Mass Effect 3. No $180/year for SW:TOR. Not one red cent from me and all because they couldn't tell the truth up front and then own their failure when it blew up in lying and/or incompetent faces.

[doc friod]

just bought used copy ME1 2 c if there was update. none did not matter no import

[RubiconA7]

iceofwolf wrote...

vagrantwade wrote...

Seeker_MOC wrote...

vagrantwade wrote...

What is checking your achievement going to accomplish?

It literally IMPORTS DATA when you do a character import. That is how ME2 knows your answers to specific questions in the first game. It also transfers your character's appearance.

How about you read what we're saying.  WE STILL HAVE THE DATA TO IMPORT.  Our saves are all still there.  The only thing that we're missing is the hidden file that verifies that we completed the game, which can be erased for a vareity of minor reasons.

Because you went to your hdd settings and wiped out that data yourself.

That is not biowares fault. Go back to your save, beat Saren in like 2 minutes, and walah.

Reading comprehension ftw.

If people had gone to their hdd settings (another fail to even assume so many people know how to do that), that doesn't explain how some people are able to import one character, but not another.

I have three characters in ME1.  My first one beat it on casual.  My second one beat it at the highest difficulty newly unlocked.  Then played through again to try to reach 60.  I only got to 54 on that character after beating Saren.  Then I started a third character and only got to Eden before something else distracted me.

Obviously, the third character doesn't show up on the list.  I've successfully imported my first character.  My second character shows up on the list, but is orange and can't be imported for some reason.  (Can't even be selected.)  In between playing ME1 and ME2, I've had a graphics card error and replaced my box, but kept the hard drive.

There's no "simple" explanation for this bug and it's not "people are being stupid".  The game is checking for something and we simply don't know what that is.

Besides, jumping to the assumption that people are just doing things wrong and being stupid about it is... well... kinda stupid.

The game checks for a hidden file saved into your cache. People say you will not be able to see it if you checked.
Some proposed that to go back your ME1 and kill Saren again to force another "autosave".

Many have reported that it has worked.

[gvamp]

I'm having a similar yet different issue.

Last night I went to start ME2 and import my character when I went to do so it said I didn't have a ME1 save file so I decided to check my HDD to see if I may have not have transfered my save file to my new Xbox. After doing so I had a save file.

After trying to load up my old save game on ME1 it doesn't even recognize that I have a save file. So has anyone else had this issue? If so is there a solution as I'd like to eventually play the "Bring Down the Sky" DLC on ME1 and also keep my ME2 history with my ME1 history.

[CulturalPlanet]

I only got my Xbox about a month ago. I've beaten ME three times but only my first save can be imported. The other TWO show up but are orange and I can't select them. No idea why, maybe because of the ME1 DLC??



I've done the beat Saren thing again, and all that did is make another save that is orange... I spent so much time to do everything and get to 60 for ME2 and I don't understand why it's not working. At least give an explanation why I can't use my other saves...

[Hew171]

This point of all this is the following:



Bioware advertised you can import any character that you have beaten the game with up to 11/12 times. They have said (nor confirmed) nothing about specific settings or the fact that you must have your game saved at one single particular point for this entire system to work.

Poor planning, horrible excution and just plain stupid to not address the issue.



(are they really going hinge this entire feature on a cache file????? i mean really, are they drunk?)

[Mustakraken]

The problem isn't that people don't want to have to load ME1 and beat Saren again (well, they don't, but it's no big deal if you have a save in the right place), the problem is that many people are on a second playthrough, many hours from Saren, or no longer own ME1, but still have their save data (it's just not from that perfect post Saren autosave). We shouldn't NEED to have a hidden file to make this work, we should just need a save file from a game that has been completed at least once.



I hope there's a fix in the works, I'd be surprised if there isn't... it would be very nice to hear from BioWare that something is being done, even if they can't give us a timeframe, it's better than wondering if the problem is being ignored or not.

[Miashi]

I played Mass Effect 1 with a different xbox gamertag than I currently play with... but all the savegames are on the xbox's drive (under the old gamertag, and I still can access that tag). No way for me to go on my old gamertag and play my old characters?

edit : with all the DLC I mean...

Modifié par Miashi, 27 janvier 2010 - 07:09 .

[TheReverendSlim]

I bought ME1 again just to attempt to replay the ending and get my data back, primarily for my choices, since they so greatly affect the story in ME2. But it's ridiculous that Bioware used a file in the cache area of the HDD to save their persistent data. I'm on my 12th 360 since launch, and one of the things Microsoft's support asks you to do during the diagnosis process for many problems is to clear the cache. Plus, I've changed to a 120gb drive and changed gamertags since then. So... there you go. Goodbye secret file.



I just want to know if ME2 stores the endgame data in the same asinine way so I'm ready for ME3.

[DirkBelig]

TheReverendSlim wrote...

But it's ridiculous that Bioware used a file in the cache area of the HDD to save their persistent data...one of the things Microsoft's support asks you to do during the diagnosis process for many problems is to clear the cache...there you go. Goodbye secret file.

This is why Bioware is playing Sgt. Schultz on this subject. They promised a feature that is pathetically easy to break and isn't admitted to unless you dig hard and deep for it. If you're foolish enough to believe the advertising, you're cruising for grief. How they dared  to hype something that was likely to fail for many players in normal circumstances reveals a disconnect from reality that's pretty frightening in its implications for overall quality control.

That all the laudatory reviews are mentioning crashes and bugs shows that a high shine polish wasn't done, so it shouldn't be a surprise that this slipped through, too. What I want to know is how critics managed to avoid this trap themselves? Were they provided special saves or consoles to play it on?

[RubiconA7]

I think the ones that you cannot select (orange) are the ones you did not finish playing after a new game+ in ME1.



For those of us who has ME2 that even refuses to see a file at all, we probably have to kill saren again.

[hardvice]

Oh well. I meant to replay ME1 on my new gamertag anyway. I guess I'll do that now.

I tried playing ME2 without it, but ugh, the default choices. Couldn't you just ask me some questions about what happened and use that?

I mean, the rest of it isn't a big deal. A couple extra levels, some extra credits, and your face (which I can recreate anyway). This definitely could have been done better, considering how little it actually seems to import.

It's a little silly that I have all my old saved game files and can't use them..

[Gaflax]

I Played ME1 on my 360 b4 I ever signed up for Live. I had to use a new profile for my live account. Have finished the games mulitple times, 4 times, one of which is lvl 60.



Here are the steps I took b4 I played.

1) boot my pc, logon to my EA account (which I could give 2 5#!75 about) enter code.

2) boot 360, with ME2 disc, logon using xbox live profile (which has no ME1 saves)

3) activate Cerberus network, download, download, download.

4) logout of xbox live account, login to other profile with saves.



Good news - was able to use my 60 save (3 others available), and got extras.

Bad news - took a half hour outta my life I'll never get back.



Sounds like I am lucky it worked at all. I dont mind having to enter a code on my console, or the time for a download. I resent having to logon to my PC, setting up account for a website, I never intended or want to be a member of, to play a game on another platform. The fact the I have an xbox account and profile should be enough. "Plug and Play" should be the philosophy, not "Turn your head and cough"

[Seeker_MOC]

Well, I went off to Blockbuster, rented ME1, and after defeating Saren everything imports as it should have in the first place. I'm glad that I can finally start playing ME2 now, but it's still total BS that I had to pay $10 to Blockbuster to fix a problem that should have been resolved before ME2 even launched.

[Seeker_MOC]

Oh, and the difference is worth it. I finshed ME1 at level 50 completing every sidequest and exploring every planet. I did not have any of the ME1 DLC.  In addition to the storyline being the one you decided, I started at level 3 instead of 1, 130,000 credits instead of 0, and 5,000 each of Palladium, Iridium, Platinum, and Element Zero, instead of 0 for all. I also started with 4 squad points, and a small amount of points in my Paragon and Renegade meters. I just started, and there may be more differences, but this is all I can tell in the first 5 minutes or so.

Modifié par Seeker_MOC, 27 janvier 2010 - 09:45 .

[silencer303]

That is what happened to me also. I finished at level 58 and that's all that it took

[Hplovecraftt]

Bioware boned up. Its that simple. They really need to: a) come up with a patch or at least say they WILL NOT fix it. I just want some closure on this crap so I will know if I should finish my new game + or just wait for them to make amends and fix their blatant friggin booboo, because I have other games I can play in the meantime, Like NMH2, that have stories I dont already know.