As I stated, I did all the troubleshooting, and these solutions provided so far do NOT work. And the workarounds don't provide permanent solutions - once power is lost, the saves are lost too.
(my xbox goes to sleep mode, but if we restart - soft or hard, or power shuts down, or the game crashes, those save games go away)
I couldn't update sooner because the forums are also always going down.
There is a new firmware update expected from Xbox on Monday (actual time unknown, current fw = ...2921)
this is happening to more and more of us and to expect players to do a song and dance to fix one game is ridiculous... it's really ruined my experience of what's supposed to be 2023's best GOTY
