I bought Assassin's Creed II on PSN today, having lost my original disc, assuming I could download it and pick back up where I left off. Turns out I have to have the specific version of ACII as my game save in order to play it. Meaning I spend $30 to have to start all over again, or spend more money to buy a working disc. And after having purchased ACII so close to launch (within a year, I think) I'm going to have trouble finding another one.

Well that sucks but at least its on psn.

You should be able to find a copy of AC II on disc easily. And for cheap.

AC2 is only 15 dollars on disc

Reminds me of Stranglehold. If you got the special edition that had the movie on the same disk, you had to buy a specific version of DLC or else you'd end up wasting fifteen bucks on nothing.

It's pretty bad of them to not make the saves compatible with the digital release. You'd think there wouldn't be any issues based on the fact that it's the same game. Wonder why that isn't the case.

I don't fucking get that.

" You should be able to find a copy of AC II on disc easily. And for cheap. "

This sounds more like it's Ubisofts fault, which wouldn't surprise me at all

so basically you're thanking Sony for having you being able to buy a game you already bought but is useless to you as it doesn't allow you to continue with your game save as you should have been able to do?
so that just means digital ditribution is crap as I always thought it was, it only allows companies to gain more money and totally control the whereabout of a game and remove some of the steps of the chain, as if they want to remove the game, you'll have paid for nothin, but if you bought the game on disc, you'd still have it
the saddest thing is it will try to kill the used market and they won't care killing lots of jobs, and having gamers see it other even less often to exchange views or become friends

" so basically you're thanking Sony for having you being able to buy a game you already bought but is useless to you as it doesn't allow you to continue with your game save as you should have been able to do?so that just means digital ditribution is crap as I always thought it was, it only allows companies to gain more money and totally control the whereabout of a game and remove some of the steps of the chain, as if they want to remove the game, you'll have paid for nothin, but if you bought the game on disc, you'd still have itthe saddest thing is it will try to kill the used market and they won't care killing lots of jobs, and having gamers see it other even less often to exchange views or become friends "

This has been a problem for awhile...one of my friends had difficulty with an X360 game like that, but the name of it escapes me. Sorry you don't have access to your save game bro, but if you can't remember where you were anyway it's probably worth playing through the intro again. AC2 isn't the worst game to have to start again for sure.

this is why i almost never buy the ps3 version of games. the playstation is so user unfriendly, it honestly makes me wonder why there are so many people who will defend every little fuckup sony makes to the hilt, like the OP here.

not that i'm saying you should be spitting mad about losing a game save, but making a whole thread praising the glorious sony for crapping on your save makes me wonder if you live in some country where it's against the law to complain.

That's bullshit... a game is a game, the saves should work for it no matter how it's distributed.

evil evil eeevil! sony why!!!