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[Br0th3rGr1mm]

Just tired to backup my game saves to an MU and the X360 tells me I can't copy this content....anyone a Bioware want to comment on why I am unable to make backups of my character saves?  I CAN move the character files but can't copy them.  That tells me I'm completely hosed if my HD belly's up.

BTW, this is for ME2 character saves...ME1 lets me copy my save games just fine. 

Modifié par Br0th3rGr1mm, 17 février 2010 - 07:32 .

[Kim Stolz]

The reason you can copy the saves in ME1 and you can't in ME2 is because it's a different system. We had to change it so the user could have more career saves than ten. (give or take one or two) It's also a much faster system for saving (about 5X). If you're worried about the HD failing move the career to a MU and play from there. You can transfer the career but having multiples of the same career on an Xbox might do some funky things to the saves anyway.so it's best to have just one.Hopefully that answeres your questions.

[Kim Stolz]

blackrhubarb 2.0 wrote...

Kim Stolz wrote...

The reason you can copy the saves in ME1 and you can't in ME2 is because it's a different system. We had to change it so the user could have more career saves than ten. (give or take one or two) It's also a much faster system for saving (about 5X). If you're worried about the HD failing move the career to a MU and play from there. You can transfer the career but having multiples of the same career on an Xbox might do some funky things to the saves anyway.so it's best to have just one.Hopefully that answeres your questions.

Considering you CAN'T copy the saves, you wouldn't have multiple copies.

You are correct...That's WHY you can't, because then you would have multiple copies

[Kim Stolz]

Mach7-7 wrote...

Kim Stolz wrote...

The reason you can copy the saves in ME1 and you can't in ME2 is because it's a different system. We had to change it so the user could have more career saves than ten. (give or take one or two) It's also a much faster system for saving (about 5X). If you're worried about the HD failing move the career to a MU and play from there. You can transfer the career but having multiples of the same career on an Xbox might do some funky things to the saves anyway.so it's best to have just one.Hopefully that answeres your questions.

Hi Kim,

Thanks for responding.  I'm not familiar with how to move a career to a MU.  Can you provide a reference to that?  Also, if we move (as oppose to copy) this career, won't the information just be on one device (MU instead of Hard Drive?).  This really wouldn't be a backup. 

In short, an awesome game like Mass Effect that spans many years and many gaming hours should have some type of backup system.  Can this be done?

Thanks for your time.

mach7-7

First off, the reason I suggested moving the careers to a MU instead of leaving it on the Hard Drive is because it sounds like people are worried about HD failure and a MU is far more stable and less likely to fail.
Secondly, I'd love to tell you how to move your career
1-Go to "My Xbox" and go all the way to the right to "System Settings"
2-Select "Memory"
3-Choose the Storage device your career is currently on (ie:Hard drive)
4-Select "Games"
5-Select ME2
6-Select the career you want to move
7-Select "Move"(For the love of all you worship as holy don't delete!!)
8-And then select the MU or other storage device you would like to move your career to.
9-Play more ME2

Thirdly, and finally. As far as I know we won't be changing how the system works. To make that big of a change now would most likely be very difficult and might cause more problems than it fixes.

I'm glad you think the game is awesome. A lot of hard work was put into it by a lot of really great people and it's always nice to hear people are liking it.

[Kim Stolz]

blackrhubarb 2.0 wrote...

Kim Stolz wrote...




You are correct...That's WHY you can't, because then you would have multiple copies

You do understand how a computer works? That  file copying has been done for quite some time? That files on the harddrive and MU are read separately and not simultaneously?

Sorry to sound incredulous but reading this and Woo not knowing what Horde mode is, I'm starting to realize ME was a fluke.

Rather than questioning what we don't know why don't you just accept the information we give you. I tried to explain that "even though other systems have done it in the past. We tried something new that didn't allow copying of saves but would work 5x faster and allow for more save files than our first game." What didn't you understand about that?
P.S. Stanley says hello.

[Kim Stolz]

I realize you guys aren't in game design so I can understand that you think this is an easy fix that we could do in a day. It's not, this would require changing the entire system. We'd have months of changes going into indeterminate testing to make sure it worked we'd basically be retesting the entire game, all of the saves up until this point would still not be copyable and you'd have to make new saves anyway.So I'm sorry if you aren't happy with the current system. This is noted, but the odds of the system seeing any changes is very minimal and the odds of big changes are almost non existant.

[Kim Stolz]

Thank you nepenthinator for giving a perfect example of the kind of nonsense we don't tolerate on the Bioware forums. For the record as well I'm Mr. Stolz and disliking my explanations are one thing being rude about it is another. I realize a lot of people are unhappy about this save process. Thank you all for your input. I didn't mean to seem condescending but I just passed on the explanation that was given to me when I asked on all of your behalf.If I hear anything else I'll let you know.