Earlier this week, we heard how Baldur's Gate 3 players are suffering with an issue that causes lost progress on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, and it seems this is connected to a bigger problem that's been plaguing cloud saves.
In recent months, we've seen players for the likes of Starfield, Wartales, The Lamplighters League and Football Manager all reporting a similar problem in which their progress is either reverted or deleted entirely on Xbox.
Fortunately, it sounds like the Xbox team is properly addressing this issue — the Baldur's Gate 3 saga seems to have prompted it — and multiple fixes are currently being tested in certain rings of the Xbox Insider program.
Here's how the official Xbox Insider blog describes it:
"Fixes to address an issue that could cause unexpected loss of saved progress in various titles."
So, with any luck, not only will Baldur's Gate 3 players be able to resume their campaigns in the near future without fear of losing progress, but it should help remedy the similar issues in all of these other games as well.
Let's hope that's the case anyway, as the Xbox cloud saving system has become pretty concerning because of this problem lately. Nobody wants to play a game thinking their data might be wiped... this needs to be resolved ASAP.
We'll keep our fingers crossed that the clever folks in the Xbox engineering department have worked their magic!