Losing progress in a game.

[MarzipanDragyn]

In Bravely Default, I had auto-battle engaged, and I was letting the characters grind up their levels.
I should've paid a little more attention to them, as their health got low when I wasn't looking, and they got KO'ed by an an unexpectedly stronger opponent.
3hours. 3 full hours of levels and loot lost-- which normally is water under the bridge, but at the time, I had no time to fix it. I was angry. That being said, i didn't let that happen again.

 

[dizzy bone]

Most recently, losing a days worth of work on my stardew farm because I briefly paused it to eat dinner. When I came back, my friend told me to join them on Splatoon. I forgot about sleeping/saving and exited the program :<

 

[MelloDimensions]

I was always in a limbo of no progress for so long. I was too young to understand to write down a password which was how games "saved" awhile back. I've never really had an issue since, but I definitely remember that especially when it meant that Goof Troop would take a whole year to beat.

 

[MapleCake]

This happens to me all the time. I am pretty aloof and will play a game for hours, forget to save and turn off my console.
Or I don't pay any attention and my DS dies.
Sometimes I do all the right things and save, but will come back to find my save files corrupted or simply never saved.
Like a couple days ago, I was playing My Time At Portia and made sure I went to bed to save my game before hopping off but when I came back on the next day, I found out my game didn't save for 2 in-game days. I was really frustrated lol.
And yesterday, I had got done furnishing my home on acnl but needed to TT forward a day to complete a bridge and forgot to save first. Came back and had my bridge but my house is empty again lol. I can never win.
Growing up though, I've always had games and played many consoles and never once did I ever bothered to get a game saver for any of them. I was just used to having to start a game from the very beginning every time I wanted to play something and that was very normal to me and I was perfectly fine knowing I would never complete a game ever. Till I owned a DS. Then I saw the beauty of being able to save a game and pick back up from where I left my game last. Now I can't stand not being able to save a game, and I'm so thankful modern games allow you to save on them now without any of the extra accessories. I was basically living under a rock before lol

 

[MelloDimensions]

This happens to me all the time. I am pretty aloof and will play a game for hours, forget to save and turn off my console.
Or I don't pay any attention and my DS dies.
Sometimes I do all the right things and save, but will come back to find my save files corrupted or simply never saved.
Like a couple days ago, I was playing My Time At Portia and made sure I went to bed to save my game before hopping off but when I came back on the next day, I found out my game didn't save for 2 in-game days. I was really frustrated lol.
And yesterday, I had got done furnishing my home on acnl but needed to TT forward a day to complete a bridge and forgot to save first. Came back and had my bridge but my house is empty again lol. I can never win.
Growing up though, I've always had games and played many consoles and never once did I ever bothered to get a game saver for any of them. I was just used to having to start a game from the very beginning every time I wanted to play something and that was very normal to me and I was perfectly fine knowing I would never complete a game ever. Till I owned a DS. Then I saw the beauty of being able to save a game and pick back up from where I left my game last. Now I can't stand not being able to save a game, and I'm so thankful modern games allow you to save on them now without any of the extra accessories. I was basically living under a rock before lol

I was waiting for the star of the subject to come through. 3 times already~ get it together~

 

[Alyx]

I've made a lot of progress in ACNL and then closed the lid without plugging it in. I forget about it, and it dies, and then I lose my progress.

 

[MelloDimensions]

While I didn't necessarily lose progress the flower sensitivity in ANCL can really go suck it. I was just in the middle of planting, and it decides to kill them all because I didn't water them immediately after??? I know I'm not necessarily green thumbed but that's ridiculous.

 

[Laconic]

This doesn't often happen to me, I get too paranoid and every time I do anything "worth" doing in a game, I save. I save multiple times before closing out for the day too.

One time though, was on ACNL, where I was wasting hours trying to catch the Gar. Once I had eventually caught it, I rushed to the muesum, donated it and was walking back into my town. SOMEHOW, in the years I have had both the game and 3DS since release, for the first time my cartridge just popped out. Lost the Gar.

I ended up catching it easily the second time ! But man, I was heartbroken. Never had the cartridge randomly pop out since then either though....

 

[Seastar]

I've had a lot of cases of this, but thankfully most of them weren't too important to me.
My recent case was one of the Littlest Petshop DS games. It froze when I tapped save, so the entire save was lost. I only just started it a few days before that happened, so it wasn't a big deal, though it killed my motivation to play it.
I lost a Kirby Super Star save due to performing a game freezing glitch over and over. (This was in Kirby's Dream Collection.)
I lost a Pokemon Red save for unknown reasons. I had purchased the game pre-owned and it still had the previous owner's data on it. But one day the title screen glitched and everything was then gone. I assume it was because the game is old.
I lost my original save data on both Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time and Explorers of Sky. How? From cheating because I'm apparently really stupid. Yes, it's all my fault. This was probably the worst case of data loss for me since I really love Pokemon Mystery Dungeon.
There might be more, but I can't remember at the moment.

 

[CambriaSpeedRacer]

Was playing Pokemon Ranger Shadows of Almia earlier, and I failed a catch. Turns out, when you do that, it sends you back to the last time you saved. And the last time I saved was...

...yeah. I had finally encountered Team Dim Sun and was battling them, but now I have to put out the Vien Forest fire again.

 

[RoyNumber1]

Can't remember it happening to me ever, but if it did I will scream painfully.

 

[Payvia]

I was playing Harvest Moon: DS Cute one day and I accidentally saved my new file over the old one. And I lost a Nintendogs save a while back. I'm still mourning over it, lol.

 

[Xara]

i can?t think of any specific memories but i?ve had a few times where i made a lot of progress in a game and stopped playing only to return later and realize none of it saved - definitely an awful feeling lmao

 

[Noctis]

Thid happened to me back in the pokemon crystal days but I don't remember what progress I lost. All I remember is that I was mad. I've also done some dumb decisions in pokemon sword and lost some minor progress that made me want to scream.

 

[Hal]

A girl I was dating a few years back flipped a light switch that was connected to my PS3,TV,etc.
The PS3 abruptly shut off and upon reboot, I had lost all data on that system.

 

[Soot Sprite]

I was on a long road trip and I brought my gameboy color to play a speedrum pokemon gold on the way there. The save function in the game was messed up so if I turned it off I would lose all my progress. I got super far and then after about five hours on the trip we stopped for gas and I ended up knocking my game boy on the ground and the game froze up. I lost everything and I didn't restart it again on the trip I'm normally pretty good about saving my progress at important points but I've lost a lot of hours on pokemon games because I forgot to turn off my ds when I was done playing or I breathed on the card slot too hard and froze the game.

 

[SheepMareep]

So I got REALLY far in botw... ended up in a situation where I had to get a new switch and did not know my save data was saved to the specific switch not my account... ;u;
I really want to get back into the game but to have to start ALL OVER from the beginning is making my head spin lol

 

[PixelSammie]

My friend accidentally deleted my FFX save right before the last boss. I liked to explore a lot in the game and play minigames so it took me forever to get to that point!

 

[sleepydreepy]

I don't think this has every really happened to me since ive always been really paranoid about losing progress and save frequently. Now that I think about it maybe there was one time I lost some data in one of the pokemon ranger games, but I don't remember if I reset on purpose or not. haha

 

[SamXX]

Yesterday on FFVII on Switch. Had been nearly an hour (and a boss battle) since my last save, and the game crashed. Was so annoyed. So now I don't walk past a save point without saving, even if it's only been a few minutes.