# The Wayhaven Chronicles General Discussion (SPOILER FREE FOR BOOK THREE!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Hosted Games\ **Created:** [June 18, 2018, 3:21pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/the-wayhaven-chronicles-general-discussion-spoiler-free-for-book-three/40124 "2018-06-18T15:21:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7661
**Author:** ![HarrisPS](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/harrisps/32/240120_2.png) [@HarrisPS](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/HarrisPS)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2023, 8:56am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/the-wayhaven-chronicles-general-discussion-spoiler-free-for-book-three/40124/7661 "2023-04-26T08:56:05Z")
Hello! The reason is because to import a save into a new game, the new game has to include exactly the same variables as the old one. But while creating the new one, an author might need to tweak the variables in the old one which would break a game saved at that stage. (This happened to me when I was making my own sequel recently - if saves had been made when Crème de la Crème was first released, they would be broken by the time Royal Affairs came out.) This is a good summary: > [@Please bring back the save system on release day](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/please-bring-back-the-save-system-on-release-day/132574/2): > > I posted this response on Reddit about two years ago, but it’s still the best I’ve been able to say it… "I made an edit to my previous point, but based on the nature of how code works… you end up with a file with a lot of tracked variables. Authors may not even know that they want a certain character to be reoccuring until the book comes out and there is positive critical reception to that character. They may have originally wrote the code to update the saved variables, and not included that ch… It’s likely that saving Book 3 progress will be available when Book 4 is at least halfway completed. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/the-wayhaven-chronicles-general-discussion-spoiler-free-for-book-three/40124)._