Steam has messed my games up more times than I can count

[CountKrazy]

I bought The Walking Dead last night, and it's a great game. It did, however, freeze on a couple of occasions due to my low specs. It happens with a lot of games on here, so I wasn't surprised. The first time it deleted my progress. That sucked... a lot. The second time I had to restart to get it to even exit out. I went to bed because I was exhausted and today I tried playing it again. Steam said the save files on my computer differed from the save files in Steam Cloud or whatever. I was happy, they had my previous progress, so I downloaded them. Then with eagerness, I tried to play the game. The window popped up for maybe two seconds that it was launching The Walking Dead... and then it went away. Nothing happened. I pressed it many times, with no results, I restarted, with no results, and I tried running as admin, with no results. I also told Avast to ignore the Steam file just in case it was blocking it or something. Still no results.

Every time Steam involves itself in my gaming, something bad happens, and there's nothing that I'm aware of to help me out other than conflicting reports of solutions, none of which usually work. I'm honestly sick of it.

EDIT: I was able to get it to launch by verifying the game cache through Steam, but my progress is, once again, gone. I have a file full of saves but none of them materialize in the game. I checked the Steam community and I guess this is a common problem. It wouldn't be as brutal if the game offered a simple skip function. "We don't want the players to skip through the narrative blah blah blah." If they're the type of players to skip through the narrative, then you probably don't want them playing your game anyway because I'm pretty sure they'd hate it. A skip function would come in handy when your game glitches out and deletes all of one's progress so that one has to listen to the same freaking dialogue again and again. @__@

THIS IS WHY I DIDN'T PLAY ALMOST ANY GAMES FOR THREE YEARS

[Noobyhead99]

That seems to be just The Walking Dead at the moment. Though Steam does have its issues, the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks.