EA WRC wiped all my settings...
Thank you EA for your incompetent error messages. Whichever product manager led the "content not installed" feature should seriously take a look at their professional performance. I bought this (fundamentally good) rally game (wrapped in a ball of * infrastructure) twice - once on Epic, once on Steam (as the sale was good and it included the DLC). Of course, the steam version and the epic version, despite both connecting to EA servers and using my EA login, cannot share saves. Why? Why can't I use the same base account with my XP progression? Anyway, who cares, it's just saves, I don't care about that. But why can't I share settings from both?? Why can't my wheel bindings and FFB settings be shared?
What's worse is that I go to play the Epic version today, as it has my bindings, and I get this "content not installed" prompt. I have no idea what content I'll be losing if I press remove content and continue. "Create a new save" sounds like a preferable option. It has a warning, hidden in the main body of the message, which says that my current save will be deleted. HEY PRODUCT MANAGER. This is really bad UX. Dangerous operations should be clearly marked, and their side effects well-communicated. I have no idea what my "current save" means. I figured it meant my career progression and Moment stuff, which I don't care about. So screw it. Nowhere was it made clear that it would wipe my character (still, I don't care), but what's awful is that it wiped my FREAKING BINDINGS AND FFB. I now have to go through and rebind everything, and I lost my optimized FFB settings. Why would these be tied to a save game? Why would they need to be wiped based on content? Is the system driving save state so poorly architected that it's not possible to separate these? Have you cut back on staff so much that you're having people fresh out of school implementing this crap?
Just sucks because the infrastructure is completely letting down the excellent rally game hidden beneath the surface, made by clearly passionate and talented devs. I have no motivation to go and remake all my bindings and FFB, I'd rather just play other sims, as it took me hours and the EA input mapping is a pain in the behind at the best of times. What a shame. And again, the product manager who gave the stamp on this feature ("Yeah, when they click this button it should wipe everything and reset the game to the initial state. Yes, everything, even their settings. Why? Oh, well, the save system also saves the settings. No, we can't change it, it will take too long.") should take a mandatory course on good UX (at the very least).
