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Re: Plants vs zombies 2 game progress lost


@ANilsson007 wrote:

I have been playing plants vs zombies 2 for several years, last week I logged in, the game did an update and all my progress was lost. I’ve contacted support several times and can’t chat with anyone and my cases keep getting closed with no resolution. So frustrated right now. Every time I log in, it says my player name but no game progress. 


If you see your original player name instead of User Dave and the resources had been reset, this does suggest some kind of data corruption occurred during the update.  Please note down or screenshot your player ID if you have not yet done so as this is an important information required for the advisor to work on your account. 

May I ask have you registered your email address with the game to get a reward of free gems before the reset? IF so, you might want to try re-installing your game and go through the register again with the same email address and see if there is a choice for you to recover your old progress.  If not, I am sorry to confirm only the help advisor can assist you in getting your old progress restored from the backup server. 

EDIT.  Out of interest, what device and OS version are you using?

7 Replies

  • ANilsson007's avatar
    ANilsson007
    2 years ago

    I will take a screen shot my my player name, I don’t think I registered my email I don’t get emails about the game or rewards. 

  • ANilsson007's avatar
    ANilsson007
    2 years ago

    Also, why is it impossible to get someone from EA to look into it? Every time I submit a ticket it says resolved the next day but I haven’t talked to anyone and I can’t chat online with anyone either. 

  • MAGICDAVESHROOM's avatar
    MAGICDAVESHROOM
    Legend
    2 years ago

    @ANilsson007 wrote:

    I will take a screen shot my my player name, I don’t think I registered my email I don’t get emails about the game or rewards. 


    At the time, you would have been offered 100 gems for registering your email address. 

    EA doesn't send players emails about the game or rewards to players that registered their email addresses, but it is a quick and easy way to restore a missing account without the correct player id number. 

    Tap on the cloud icon, tap the register email button and enter the email address that you gave EA and they will send you a unique code to that email address. 

  • ANilsson007's avatar
    ANilsson007
    2 years ago

    If I do that now, will it not save the current progress? What I’m trying to do is get my years of progress back. Or am I SOL? It would really suck to have to start over as I had plants that now you have purchase and plants that were maxed out for upgrades. I’ve played this game for over 7 years 

  • MAGICDAVESHROOM's avatar
    MAGICDAVESHROOM
    Legend
    2 years ago

    @ANilsson007 

    It should restore your old account with the original player id number, which i have no doubt you will immediately screenshot and keep safe.

    That is, assuming that you did actually sign up for EA's email registration scheme.

    There are only two ways to recover a missing account, one is through the email registration scheme and the other is through the EA HELP CENTER, but they insist on having the correct player id number to recover it from the backup servers.

  • eieio_31310's avatar
    eieio_31310
    Hero
    2 years ago

    @ANilsson007 wrote:

    I will take a screen shot my my player name, I don’t think I registered my email I don’t get emails about the game or rewards. 


    IF you have not registered your email with your original account (the one with 7 years of progress) before, then the only people who can help to recover your account are the advisors as they have access to the server to correct errors on your account, BUT (and this is a big BUT) in order for the advisor to work on your account, they will need to know which account (identified by the unique player ID) to work on, this is the reason why the player ID is important.  

    In short, if you have not registered your email to link it to your PVZ2 account and you do not know your original player ID, then the chance to have your old account recovered will be very slim. 

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