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2 years ago
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[Xbox] PvZ GW2 Lost Progress

Hey, recently I decided to hop on Garden Warfare 2 on Xbox. I haven't been on for months and wanted to get back on. When I got on though, it treated me like it was my first time playing. I had to go through the tutorial and everything else. I had lost my xp, characters, abilities, campaign, skins, everything. I tried restarting the game and console, deleting and reinstalling the game, but to no avail. The only reason I could see this happening is because a few months back, I changed the email account of my Xbox profile and my EA account to another email account. With that being said, they were both linked a long time ago and when I go to other EA games like Titanfall 2 on Xbox, my progress is left intact. Did I potentially and accidentally create two EA accounts and leave my progress with one of the EA accounts? Can I get help on this? (This is also the case in Battle For Neighborville)

  • @JFKX Gotcha, so that sounds like it would do it. So short answer is no. That timeframe isn't something that can be changed. They would have to change that rule for all players who request it, and that decision is a bit out of our hands.

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  • EA_Shepard's avatar
    EA_Shepard
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    2 years ago

    @JFKX The only way that progress would be lost in changes like this is if you deleted the Xbox account from the EA account. Simply changing the email that is used to log in would not cause data to be lost. 

    If you change the email on an account, you can use that email to create a new EA account yes, but you would have to manually delete the Xbox account from the original EA account and link it to the new one. That isn't something you can accidentally do since you have to manually unlink the console in your EA profile online.

    What it sounds like is, if other games' progress is still there, and it's just GW2 that is not, it would be a sync issue, or it was not actually linked, or the Gamertag was removed. There is no way to manually delete that progress because it is server-side and not stored on your console. That kind of rules out being delinked though since every other game still has progress.

    There are Xbox steps you can try and see if it works but sadly if they do not there is no restore data option due to the age of the game.

    I would log into your EA account online on EA.com go under connections and make sure everything is linked to the right accounts.

  • JFKX's avatar
    JFKX
    2 years ago

    No, just simply replaced it with a new one.

  • JFKX's avatar
    JFKX
    2 years ago

    My EA account and Xbox account are properly linked together. Do you know where I could find these Xbox steps to try them out?

  • EA_Shepard's avatar
    EA_Shepard
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    2 years ago

    @JFKX Here you go. 

    Persistent Storage

    • Go to settings > Select Device & Connections > Then Blue-Ray
    • Select Persistent Storage > Clear Persistent Storage

    Alternate Mac:

    • Go to settings > Select General  > Then Network settings
    • Go to advanced settings > Alternate Mac address > Select clear
    • Select restart

    Additional steps to sync up

    • Quit all running Apps (For Series X|S consoles)
    • Remove any connected device, or additional USBs from the console then restart the Xbox and check for updates
    • Try the steps in our Connection and Advance Connection Guides
    • Open you're Xbox NAT Type
    • Change DNS settings (You can use the public Google DNS primary: 8.8.8.8, secondary: 8.8.4.4)

    you can also delete your Gamertag from the console, and log back in as normal. When you launch any game after that it tries to sync all your progress.

    If you have Game Pass Ultimate for example, you can do a cloud streaming from PC which will also sync your saves.

    The last steps would be to log into another console with that Gamertag, download the game from your library and sync saves. Its all cloud saves so you cant really lose content if you swap consoles for testing.

     

  • JFKX's avatar
    JFKX
    2 years ago

    I might have figured out my problem hopefully. While exploring a bit myself on solutions, I decided to check the other EA account I thought I had created accidentally. From what I found, it turns out that that EA account was actually the one I intended to change the email of and link my Xbox to, or for that matter, was already linked to (it was created in 2016, the EA account my Xbox account is currently linked to was created in 2022 the accidental one). With that logic in mind, I tried to unlink the Xbox account from the current EA account, but it won't let me till March of 2024. Even though the answer is probably no, is there any way I can contact EA to help unlink these accounts? Could I potentially merge these accounts instead?

  • EA_Shepard's avatar
    EA_Shepard
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    2 years ago

    @JFKX Gotcha, so that sounds like it would do it. So short answer is no. That timeframe isn't something that can be changed. They would have to change that rule for all players who request it, and that decision is a bit out of our hands.

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