It’s not too uncommon that a high profile game release is met with a problematic glitch that requires a patch. In fact, this situation probably occurs far more often than it should. However, when Castlevania: Lords of Shadow released for the PlayStation 3 a little under a month ago, it revealed one of the most deathly glitches any game has seen to date — the save deletion glitch.
That’s correct, PlayStation 3 owners who purchased this Castlevania “remix,” were met harshly with a glitch that would eventually just erase their saved game entirely, forcing gamers to start over. Thankfully, this issue wasn’t widespread and only effected a handful of consoles, but enough to warrant a patch, obviously.
Today, one of the producers with the game, announced on Twitter that the patch to fix this issue was incoming within the next couple of days.
David Cox: Fix will be live in a few days. Sorry about the wait but only very small percentage affected so was very hard to pin down cause!
Of course, this is probably a patch that should have never needed to be created, but at least the developers have taken responsibility for the issue and corrected it. Sadly, they may have taken too long to fix the issue resulting a few lost sales.
I was one affected by this glitch… even after reading that people should back up their saves, which I did. The problem is that even if you do back it up, the file will corrupt without notice, meaning that you can end up backing the file that is corrupt, which is what happened to me. Thankfully I did complete the game before this occured but losing 24+ hours and 76% of my progress towards going for platinum, it’s a very frustrating experience. Hopefully the save file only corrupts upon loading and that once the patch is up, that my backed up file will resume from where I left off but I’m not getting my hopes up…
And a typo in the article…? “it revealed one of the most deathly patches” Shouln’t it read “one of the most deathly glitches?”