Well, the worst happened to me. During a "Red Circle of Death" experience and 360 failure my unit took out my 90,000,000+ Bejeweled 2 Endless score -which was #20 on the XBox Leaderboard at the time! The gruesome details of my HW failure are explained in this thread.
Apparently my scores are lost forever on my 360 because the unit never let me backup my game save file. That's explained in this thread.
It occurred to me that the XBox Live Leaderboards should be a two-way street. While we can upload our scores from our machine TO the Xbox Live Leaderboards, we can never retrieve them if disaster strikes. Granted, the way that the Leaderboards work you can advance your own personal score but only if the score on your machine exceeds what's on the Xbox Live Leaderboard. If your machine resets due to HW glitches you are back to square one (and in my particular case this involved a time investment of over 500 game play hours!!!) I think that it is totally reasonable for the legitimate holder of a score to be able to retrieve that score to the machine it came from if the worst happens. Since Xbox Live is a two way street (we download patches, updatesand other content all the time) it really shouldn't be too hard to have the system provide game scores when appropriate. That just makes sense. And I'm not suggesting that the floodgates be open so that anybody can usurp another's high scores. It should be possible to cross reference the scores to the name tag of the person and machine where it came from for security reasons.
I've already suggested to MS to consider this feature in a future SW/firmware upgrade. What are your thoughts on this matter? Does it make sense? Are there any pitfalls or other hindrances that I'm not considering?
Apparently my scores are lost forever on my 360 because the unit never let me backup my game save file. That's explained in this thread.
It occurred to me that the XBox Live Leaderboards should be a two-way street. While we can upload our scores from our machine TO the Xbox Live Leaderboards, we can never retrieve them if disaster strikes. Granted, the way that the Leaderboards work you can advance your own personal score but only if the score on your machine exceeds what's on the Xbox Live Leaderboard. If your machine resets due to HW glitches you are back to square one (and in my particular case this involved a time investment of over 500 game play hours!!!) I think that it is totally reasonable for the legitimate holder of a score to be able to retrieve that score to the machine it came from if the worst happens. Since Xbox Live is a two way street (we download patches, updatesand other content all the time) it really shouldn't be too hard to have the system provide game scores when appropriate. That just makes sense. And I'm not suggesting that the floodgates be open so that anybody can usurp another's high scores. It should be possible to cross reference the scores to the name tag of the person and machine where it came from for security reasons.
I've already suggested to MS to consider this feature in a future SW/firmware upgrade. What are your thoughts on this matter? Does it make sense? Are there any pitfalls or other hindrances that I'm not considering?
