It's happened to us all; we spend hours upon hours playing a game, forgetting to save, and something happens and all that progress is lost. Maybe it's technical issues such as the game crashing, maybe it's Eskom and it's useless load shedding schedules.

My story:
Titan Quest, the year was 2009. A mate and I started playing this game religiously, and finished about 2 play throughs of the game. We were about to restart the game on Legendary to get even more loot and stuff, when it happened. We frequently swapped save games with each other to level up or share some loot across PC's (we didn't had internet as we were broke students). After another exchange, I booted up to start another run in the game, booted the game, but there was a problem. My save game was gone. When we checked on his PC, he also didn't copy over the save game. It seemed he may have accidentally deleted my save game. I was so pissed. To this day, I've never played the game again, or shared any save games with him I might add.

Share with us your mishaps and stories of when save games got the best of you. Do you do anything to secure your save games? Is it even still an issue with cloud saves and stuff like that?