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[Spare Parts Bin]

Hey guys I have not posted in a very long time. I need your help.

2 weeks ago my PC crashed it was 7 years old. The fellas over at BestBuy said they could not retrieve my Mechwarrior Online account from my harddrive. They loaded what they could from the old drive to my new computor.

What is my next move?

[Bilbo]

Reinstall the game. You lost nothing but video settings and key bindings.

[Rogue Jedi]

you could also have lost screenshots.
But as Bilbo said, just reinstall, all data for Mechs, inventory, cbills, xp, mc ect. are stored on PGIs servers, just reinstall, set up any game settings and keybindings and you will be fine

[Koniving]

Spare Parts Bin, on 23 February 2017 - 02:54 PM, said:

Hey guys I have not posted in a very long time. I need your help.

2 weeks ago my PC crashed it was 7 years old. The fellas over at BestBuy said they could not retrieve my Mechwarrior Online account from my harddrive. They loaded what they could from the old drive to my new computor.

What is my next move?

Its an online game with micro transactions. Any and every game like this stores everything but game settings on their server.

You only need to worry about single player games and games that don't do microtransactions when it comes to computer or hard drive failure.

[Hexenhammer]

Koniving, on 23 February 2017 - 06:03 PM, said:

Its an online game with micro transactions. Any and every game like this stores everything but game settings on their server.

You only need to worry about single player games and games that don't do microtransactions when it comes to computer or hard drive failure.

And that's where something like Steam can help.

[Koniving]

Hexenhammer, on 23 February 2017 - 07:00 PM, said:

And that's where something like Steam can help.

Provided you enable "Cloud storage".
Otherwise they cannot.

[Spare Parts Bin]

Thank you guys. I was dreading starting over.

[Void Angel]

Nah, no trouble there - server based means never having to recover your hard drive.