We’ve all seen it. The small spinning symbol that warns players of impatient actions to disable. “Do not turn off your system when this symbol is displayed,” is the message you often see when starting up a game (or some other version of these words). The implication is clear. Saving is delicate and if you interrupt this invisible ritual, the data written to a folder deep in the bowels of your PC becomes corrupted, destroyed, exiled. You will lose all your progress, all your precious swords and achievements.
But is this true? How likely is it that you… Real suffer a catastrophic loss of shotgun shells? To find out, I decided to spend a very annoying afternoon turning my gaming rig off and on again during multiple games. Was this a good idea? Don’t know. I’m a gamer, not an ideas guy.
