Tibia! I've played that too, it was my first MMO experience. I never knew anyone there, there was mostly spanish and polish players and so I played completely alone. Also without premium account. I remember the grind and quit because of that. You had to kill the same enemies in same location, over and over and over. You had different experience, but at least you've got there good life lesson.


I make backups too, but it never struck me that I should do save games backups. Maybe I will from now. If at least the games used their own directory and not different folder each time. (should I look in game directory ? or Documents directory ? or .config directory ? or some obscure local directory? I google that each time.)

Ive played around 300 hours Final Fantasy 7. The last Enemy was the Underwater Ultima.
Suddenly... Windows 98 Bluescreen and my save was lost.

Since this day, i never replayed FF7.

2-3 years back, steam was playing up (worse than normal) & after a few weeks of constant problems, I decided to search for solutions online, which was bad because I was on metered slooooooow internots at the time.

Most stated DLing the steam installer & selecting repair option, so I did.

During this, it stated that it had to uninstall steam to reinstall it. Made sense, I guess.
Left it to it, went to make a cuppa.

Came back, still uninstalling steam, I thought *wtf, steam isnt that much bloatware*.

Cancelled it & was about to start over & randomly decided to try to launch steam, see if anything had changed so far.

*fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!!!!*

Perhaps it was trying to uninstall steam, but in the mean time, it had also uninstalled almost every game I had installed, including save files.

Pissed off didn't cover it.

Funnily enough, Steam had a bug in its linux version which deleted whole /home folder of the user. (That's like all of the user files). I was not affected, but since then, Steam has a special place in my computer, locked behind dummy user without any privileges.

Incidentally, SteamOS actually does something like that; there is one account (without sudo privileges) that Steam runs in, and a separate account (with sudo privileges) that is used if you enable the desktop that *does* have sudo privileges.

I am thinking of creating a separate account on my (Steam-free) desktop for running proprietary games (like those downloaded from this website) so they can't (barring security exploits) access my non-game files.

On a different note, I believe that a game called Pool of Radiance (not the DOS game in the Forgotten Realms Collection 2, but a later game that sort of used 3rd edition rules) had a serious bug that, on uninstall, would erase all files on the hard drive.

Incidentally, open source software isn't immune to this sort of bug; here is one example:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=155873)

(That debian bug I linked is pretty old, so it's not a current bug (and it was fixed), but it does show you that you have to be careful. In fact, it's so old that the package no longer exist in any currently supported version of debian.)

well hello there :)

yes, it is a great game. but yeah, totally scarred for life ;)

Hello there, how have you been? :P *hugs*

I need to finally finish 7th guest and 11th hour, but have been too lazy. :P Also got D: The game to finish. lol

Thank god I never had your Final Fantasy problems. :)

But, one of the worst things that I can remember right now happened to me in SimCity 2000. I started a new city, made a hydro power plant (can't remember the exact name but it was the water one, and it was cheap), and started building the city. Naturally, I went over budget and ended up in negative money, but after some time and a little raise in taxes everything stabilised and I started to gain money and ending up on more-less zero on bank account. So I thought, ok a few more years and we are earning big time and expanding. And then power plant exploded. I was devastated. I didn't have enough money for a new one and city just collapsed without it. It was chaos, and that was a very tragic afternoon.

Final Fantasy on the NES. I'd gotten to Chaos with a party of 4 Knights, and I got wiped. Fair enough, try again later.

Come back the next day, and I load to see a party of about level 2 characters. My sister didn't know that there is only one save slot and visiting the inn automatically saves while restoring full HP/MP.

When I still shared a room with my brother, we would share the PS3 (Even though it was mine). He had this copy of NFS:MW or something that would always cause a crash and then we'd have to wait for the console to check there was no damage to any of the savegames, one day he thought the screen was frozen so he turned it off during the checking. I come in a few hours later turn it on and the console says it needs to reformat, about 2 hours later I find all my save data from every game gone, I was playing Ni No Kuni at the time, got to the last area, it's a long game if you do all the side quests as you find them like I did, something I constantly remind my brother of.

In more embarrassing than disappointing news: I played through Resident Evil 4, and I was in the laboratory section and I couldn't get past the regenerators, I tried everything, I consulted a guide which said 'Run Past them', I hadn't known there was a run button (This was my first Res Evil game), which is probably why I was struggling so much with the game.

This is going back a bit so I can't recall the name of the game I was enjoying at the time on my Atari 800XL. What I can recall is that my floppy disk would give a read error from time to time. I decided to go through my disk tools to remedy the issue. I found one and off I went.

Next, I try running the game with no success. It won't load. I'm worse off than before. I relay what I did to my dad and he immediately recognized the problem.

That was when I learned what disk formatting did. I lost my favorite game that day. I was devastated.

eh, I dunno
Last summer my GPU burned down when I was playing Endless Space :D.

haha it's so funny you mention that, I was thinking about doing a blog or twitch of my entire backlog. Like play at lest 10 hours of everygame. My first two would be 7th guest and 11th hour :)

Oh, your avatar reminds me, I finally watched the Big Labowski! Loved it. Can't remember if I told you this or not.

*hugs* back at ya :) <3

Hahahah "You're a lebowski, I'm a lebowski!" You should snag D: The game also, another 7th guest/myst like horror game.

*jumps in on the hug, then returns hug and hangs on longer than usual*