Rise of the Ronin has released some days ago on PC. It has been yet another disastrous launch that will cost Koei Tecmo some cash in the future. Perhaps the company should focus more on trying to stick to its popular IPs like the Atelier series, and resurrect some of its big potential IPs like Monster Rancher. Lower budget games with a reasonable scope seem to be the way of surviving in the current video game landscape. Unfortunately, it seems that Koei Tecmo has fallen in the triple A trap, will they be able to recover? We at Infinite Start will cover this new disaster after the break.
Rise of the Ronin deletes your progress
While not uncommon for this issue to happen on PC ports of Koei Tecmo games specifically, it is still a frustrating one to deal with. When Monster Rancher 1&2 DX released on PC some years ago, there was a similar bug that wiped the data of some players. Many assume this save data error happens due to an issue with character encoding. Being Japanese games, perhaps a file generates with the wrong language locale, causing the file to corrupt or become unreadable.
There’s many ways around this issue, for one, it is possible to make a script to try and backup your save periodically. If you don’t wish to go the programmer route however, you can also just try to find the file on the Steam directory of the game and save it in another folder as a copy. It is possible to even just add an extra extension to not even have to move it to a different folder.
The big issue is the Steam cloud saves, now those are very hard to handle since they get uploaded to a server. You cannot really modify data that gets corrupted over there as far as people know, but you can still protect yourself locally.
