["This Save Game Could Not Be Loaded"]

5 months and still nothing? I guess FM22 is off the cards for me personally.

["This Save Game Could Not Be Loaded"]

Any news on this, anyone? It's been nearly 2 months now...

["This Save Game Could Not Be Loaded"]

On 10/05/2021 at 11:34, Rob Heckman said:

Hi guys, sorry to hear about that! We are aware of this issue and are investigating it. Thanks.

Hey Rob, the new patch that dropped recently, has that fixed this issue?

["This Save Game Could Not Be Loaded"]

Hey folks,

Just come across an issue that seems to have nuked my saves. Basically, now when I try to load up my save it says "The save game could not be loaded." It's kind of annoying considering I'm 15 years into a Kidderminster Harriers save! If it was just that save game, no biggie, but I reloaded an earlier save and it worked, but now that's corrupt too and comes up with the same message (I loaded it, exited the save by going to the main menu, and then reloaded it and it didn't work). I have one more save that I am scared to life to touch because it might corrupt if I load that too. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated, as this is the very definition of a game breaking bug. In terms of details you've requested:

• Team managed: Kidderminster Harriers
• Leagues loaded: 10 (all English, Spanish, French, German and Italian ones)
• In-game date: April 2035
• Steps to reproduce the issue if known: don't really want to nuke anymore saves, ha!

 

[Question, from a relapsed FM fan...]

I'm 7 years into a Kidderminster Harriers run from the bottom division (Vanarama South), trying to hit the Premier League (eventually). I'm currently in League Two and every year, as soon as January comes in, I hit a slump. Every year without fail. This year though is especially bad. Before January hit, I was on an unbeaten run of 12 games undefeated, scoring 4 and 5 goals a game, smashing teams and dominating pretty much everyone. January comes around and everyone all of a sudden starts missing sitters and we can't buy a win. On top of that, opposing teams have suddenly started scoring wonder goals against me and getting pens all the time now. It's actually quite ridiculous. I've read stuff about people needing a rest and being overworked, but I rotate my squad where possible and no-one is an injury risk. I've also read about opposition teams getting used to a certain tactic or pitches getting worse, but that's the thing, I'm still smashing opposing teams, it's just my team just can't score anymore. I lost back-to-back games against 23rd and 24th, when I'd literally smashed them just a few months ago, ha! What's worse is if I reload a save and instant play it, I smash teams again. What's up with that? My question then, is it just me or is the game actually stacked against the player this year on purpose and less like a sim? Like, it purposely tries to screw the player over. "You're doing well, here, try and manage against the impossible!" It did the same last season by throwing a load of long-term injuries at my best players as well as not being able to buy a win (I chalked that down to not having my top players), which meant I missed out on promotion. Has it been like this for a while or is this a new thing with 21? Is it like this in every league? Or just the lower leagues? It honestly makes me want to stop playing all together, as it's just so goddamn predictable. Thankfully my lead at the top is healthy and I'll weather this largely predictable storm, but that doesn't stop it being any less ridiculous. It just highlights how bad the issue really is. Imagine how annoyed I'd be if I wasn't going to get promoted, ha (like it happened last year when I was top of the league).

Also, I've not played a Football Manager in like 15 years (whenver the last time it was on Xbox, ha), but has SI removed player devolpment completely now? I've got a 22 year old centre-back who's played 40 games a season for 5 years and he's gone up 1 attribute point 

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It is indeed fixed now! Wonderful stuff! Big thanks to the dev team for their speedy fix!

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No, don't think there is anything we can do, to be honest, it's got to be fixed dev side. Had a read around the forums and it actually seems quite widespread, and SI seems to be aware of it, even though they've not responded here.

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I'm about 3 years into a career with Kidderminster Harriers on Xbox, December 26th, about to play a game against Boreham Wood, and every time I try to load into the game it crashes. I've tried going in normally, simulating the result, and every single time it crashes going from the team selection screen into the match. I've loaded old saves to get to that point and it crashes again at that exact point.

I'm playing with 10 leagues, if that helps, and I've put a ridiculous amount of time into this save, only for it to lead nowhere. Any assistance would be appreciated.

EDIT: Uploaded the save file to your cloud service (File name: Webb - Kidderminster Harriers - Bugged).