Results from a study held in March this year reveal that a relatively significant number of people (1 in 10 to be exact) would rather give up some seriously valuable belongings than see their video game save data erased.
We all relate to the nightmarish dread associated with losing one’s save data for a game that we’ve sunken tens if not hundreds of hours into. While that may be a prevailing sentiment amongst gamers, surely most wouldn’t go so far as to say they’d rather have their house get completely demolished than deal with the tragedy of losing all progress in their beloved games.
Well according to Kwalee’s data - collected via surveys administered to 2,000 UK and 2,046 US respondents - that’s indeed true. But also that a good 446 people would rather have their house completely destroyed than lose their save data. That’s a pretty decent number of people to share such a drastic view.
Other similarly outlandish views were revealed including the fact that instead of losing their precious save data, 1 in 10 people would rather sacrifice their car, 1 in 5 would rather see their laptop, television, or even mobile phone destroyed, and 1 in 10 would opt for kissing their wedding ring goodbye before doing the same to their save files.
Of course, presumably most of these folks wouldn’t actually be able to follow through with these decisions in real life. For the sake of 446 possible marriages, we hope that’s the case at least.
Source: Kwalee
