Original story (Sun 10th Dec, 2023): It's been a couple of days since Baldur's Gate 3 finally launched on Xbox as part of a shadow drop at The Game Awards 2023, and in the few hours we've had with it so far, we've been having an absolute blast with the Series X version.
However, there's currently a bug that's being experienced by quite a few people - and it's definitely a worrying one. In a nutshell, players are finding that their Baldur's Gate 3 Xbox saves are being randomly wiped from existence!
There are numerous reports about this on the Xbox Store right now, and we've also come across multiple threads over on the Baldur's Gate 3 subreddit about it - here are a few of the most troubling examples:
Based on the reports we've seen so far, it appears as though this is actually an issue related to Xbox's cloud saving system, as a lot of players are getting messages saying there's not enough room to save the game. We've run into this issue in the past with Football Manager as well, which is another game that features large save files. Starfield is another example that's caused similar issues for certain players:
The sad part is there's no known way of avoiding this issue in Baldur's Gate 3 at the moment, as players have been trying all kinds of fixes - such as limiting themselves to just one save, reinstalling the game, clearing their local save games and avoiding the Quick Resume feature - but nothing seems to have a 100% success rate as of yet.
There is also a way to connect your Larian account in order to set up cross-saves between the Xbox version and the PC / PS5 versions, but this is causing issues right now as well - some players have mentioned that they can't even open BG3 after activating this feature unless they start the game while offline on their console!
Ultimately, it sounds like Xbox and Larian Studios will need to work together to find a fix for this extremely concerning issue. Nobody ever likes losing their save data, but it's especially damaging in such a gigantic RPG as this.
