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Anonymous
13 years ago

Why can't we have multiple profiles anymore?

Honestly, a lot of recent games I've bought (Burnout Paradise, Blur, Shift 2, and now Most Wanted) for PC have no way whatsoever to make multiple profiles or savegames. I lave a lot of people in my house and in the good old days you could fire up a game and you'd have THIS person's profile and THAT person's profile and YOUR profile, and that way multiple people could enjoy one game. But now, that option is pretty much gone in many of EA's games. It's like they intend that only one person will play a game when they buy it. It's really an easy option to add to a game, so I don't see why they stopped doing it. Is there any way to have multiple profiles in, say, Most Wanted, without having to go the the save file's location and swap it out with a different saved game? It just seems like straight up laziness on EA's part.

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    They want those other people to buy their own copy of the game obviously, nothing lazy about it, they are a business.

  • I guess you're talking about on the PC, rather than on a console. 

    You can have multiple saves on a PC if you have your PC set up in a "user/profile" based environment - much like a console. 

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    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    It would seem that when you start Most Wanted then it automatically syncs with the cloud overwriting what is in your profile..In other words 2 windows profiles but 1 NFS profile.

    Please can anyone confirm this is the case?

  • B1ackQ's avatar
    B1ackQ
    13 years ago

    Unfortunately it is true: If You install the game on PC, than no matter of the windows account it's always run as 1 player profile. The last game, where there were a players profile was free to play NFS World. It's a shame not to have an option for offline profiles: 1 online and 3 offline (for the kids for example). I pay a lot of cash for the games and I cannot play it with my son - It's big dissadvantage.

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