WHY DOESN'T MY GAME SAVE

[The Man]

So I played for almost an hour I was in the steel mill and when I went to play again a day later it hadn't saved

[ApeWithPC]

In the old days, you used to save when you wanted to save. It's so much easier now, you don't have to save, the game saves for you when it wants :/

[ccMatrix]

Played today for 6.5 hours. Wanted to resume later and it had not saved at all because the crappy games for windows stuff did not load. Not really in the mood to play everything again. I had to reinstall games for windows live and remove my profile before I could even log in.

[[OCN]Skupples]

you need to make a games for windows live account.

[ApeWithPC]

You do not need to make an GFWL account just to play and save the game. You can use a 'local/offline profile' without creating a new account with microsoft's service.

So many people have reported problems with game saving, afaict, most of those reports come from folks that have an actual account. The previous comment recommended creating an account as the solution game save problems. That makes no sense to me.

[[OCN]Skupples]

Who knows, after years and years of reading game boards I'm convinced most error threads are full of user error.

Iv'e done a playthrough in offline mode, and with my legit g4wl account. Iv'e also done it on a cracked batman in offline mode.(iv'e owned it for awhile now)
(99% of statistics on the internet are made up)

It took me 3 hours to get Sleeping Dogs SLI+multimonitor to function properly... off topic example.

[ApeWithPC]

So why'd you say you need to make an account then?

Creating a new account is more error prone than not creating a new account and just playing it "offline". At least imho.

[N1NJAPIG]

How come it says I need to put a CD key for the game when it launches and it never pops up? I think thats a reason why my game isn't saving

[[OCN]Skupples]

Originally posted by smithman013:

How come it says I need to put a CD key for the game when it launches and it never pops up? I think thats a reason why my game isn't saving

IDK, its all weird right now, i thought steam pulled the CD key from the game in preperation for the removal of games 4 windows interfacing. It could be seriously broken just from that... if that is actually going through.

I may have to install and investigate 2moror.

[N1NJAPIG]

I will try to reinstall if all gets ♥♥♥♥ faced. Steam needs to stop this Piracy crap. I just want to play PC games. I DON'T WANT TO BE A PRISONER OF THERE LITTLE GAME SO THEY CAN MAKE ME WISH I WERE DEAD!

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

be careful you dont use all your securom installs...lol...

[[OCN]Skupples]

Originally posted by smithman013:

I will try to reinstall if all gets ♥♥♥♥ faced. Steam needs to stop this Piracy crap. I just want to play PC games. I DON'T WANT TO BE A PRISONER OF THERE LITTLE GAME SO THEY CAN MAKE ME WISH I WERE DEAD!

It's like the war on drugs, the more you fight it, the more people wanna get high... Piracy is a response to overzealous DRM's, demanding EVERYONE PAY.

Notice more and more companies are actually moving away from there HARDCORE "no crack" systems of the past years.

[The Man]

Ok thanks for the help. HOw would I go about getting one of these window accounts?

[[OCN]Skupples]

Originally posted by The man:

Ok thanks for the help. HOw would I go about getting one of these window accounts?

The account is made shortly after installing the game. You should also be able to google "games for windows live" and make an account from the main site. Sadly i didn't get enough time to install/create a new account today, hopefully i can test it tomorrow after work.

[The Man]

Ok thank you so much for the help I will deffinatley be trying this out tomorrow. Thanks again

[HAVQ]

I have windows 8 with my account installed and all that but it still dosent work. Vapor how do I get into this "offline mode" do you mean for steam or games for windows live?