Saints Row IV’s forced Re-Elected “upgrade” has broken players’ saves and added bugs
What better way to win back your community after the rocky launch of a new game than by providing a free “upgrade” to a beloved old game? I’ve no way of knowing if that’s what Volition thought as they followed the poor reception of the Saints Row reboot by earlier this month “upgrading all copies” of Saints Row IV to Saints Row IV: Re-Elected, a version of the outlandish 2013 action game which includes all previously released DLC.
If it was what they thought, it hasn’t worked. Players report that Re-Elected isn’t an upgrade at all, but that it has broken their save games, their mods, and introduced new launch and crash bugs to the nine-year-old game.