In the past 24 hours, 2K issued a new update forWWE 2K20across all platforms. Patch 1.03 is 2K’s much-anticipated patch addressing bugs, crashes, and general game stability inWWE 2K20, a game that’s been rife with issues since its launch on October 22. While players are still learning just how impactfulWWE 2K20’s 1.03 update is on general gameplay, one new issue is causing massive frustrations for PC players. There are increasing reports that patch 1.03 is corrupting PC players' save files.
WWEgames YouTube content creator SmackTalks posted a warning to their followers Thrusday after the patch went out. The Twitter post starts with “WARNING” and then explains that installing patch 1.03 on PC will corrupt the player’s save file, causing them to lose all of their progress and data.
Their tweet is accompanied by an image showing the effects of the corruption. A prompt tells the player “Load failed.WWE 2K20save data has been corrupted. Would you like to create new save data? Note: Creating new save data will overwrite the current corrupted data.” If players say yes, theirsave fileis simply erased. If they say no, they go to the title screen and are unable to do anything in-game until they accept the new save file.
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There are several replies to SmackTalks' Twitter post, as well as on the patch thread on Reddit, saying that thecorrupted save fileissue happened to them. “50 hours of game lost…” reads one reply, to which another player replied, “59 hours for me… Everything is gone.” Other repliers are saying that they’re hoping their game hasn’t auto-updated and that they won’t play again until more information about the issue has been provided.
SmackTalks asked the official 2K support Twitter account and the officialWWEgames account for a response to the issue, but neither has provided a statement as of yet. The 2K Support Twitter account has responded toWWE 2K20PC players who have asked for help directly, but only to refer them to 2K Support’s official live chat. It’s unclear if 2K Support has been able to help any of theWWE 2K20players as of yet.
This new issue withWWE 2K20on PC may be the worst problem yet. For players who cared enough to invest their time and attention to the game despiteWWE 2K20many issuesto now have all of their progress and achievements erased by an official update that was supposed to fix the game’s many problems is a cruel joke. The best thingWWE 2K20players on PC can do right now is to not update the game if possible, or not open it otherwise.
It’s unclear if the save corruption is happening to allWWE 2K20players on PC, but it’s clearly happening to enough players that it’s worth trying to avoid. Otherwise, if players are comfortable losing their save file, then letting it get corrupted and starting anew seems to be fine.
WWE 2K20is available now on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
