Burnout Paradise WARNING! Auto-save can corrupt data!

[Stephie_is_a_dork]

Last night, my whole PS3 froze every time I selected "Friends" from the easy drive menu. I could play offline and join random strangers in Freeburn, but I couldn't send or accept an invite.

I called EA this morning when they opened and the guy said my saved game data was corrupted, and that I should just delete it and start over. That option really sucks for me, since I only need 30(ish?) more events and a mugshot/smugshot before getting platinum.

I asked him how the data may have become corrupted in the first place, and he said it was the auto-save feature. He said I should turn it off and manually save and load the game, and do so less frequently. (BTW, I found the menu to manually save and load, but haven't found the auto-save off option. Does anyone know how to turn auto-save off?)

Then I asked the EA Support dude WHY they would leave auto-save in the game if they KNOW it corrupts data, his response was "Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't." SERIOUSLY?!? That's all you got? You leave a feature with a known bug in your game because SOMEtimes it doesn't happen? This experience reminded me why I've never been a fan of EA.

So since I mostly bought this game to play with friends and the game broke itself through no fault of my own, I asked if they could give me a free DLC code for the Time Savers Pack to unlock the cars since it happened when I'm alllllmost done with the game. He said he they weren't able to do that, but he gave me a code for $20 off another overpriced crap-tacular EA game on EA.com. Just what I wanted. Frickin' great.

Moral of the story: Backup your game data, EA sucks, and if you already have Burnout Paradise, turn off auto-save...if you know how.




MODS: I'm going to link to this thread from the main Burnout Paradise thread, but I would really appreciate it if you waited like a week or so before merging it with the main thread. I'm hoping that the title will get more people to read this and disable auto-save, even if they don't check the main thread regularly.