"Failure to synchronize saved games" is testing my patience.

[gutted]

Despite having turned off saving games to the server from the launcher...

In 2 days, I've encountered this problem 5 times. Everytime i see this message it tells me it will try again at the next save/load operation. So I try to load a save file, it goes through the whole 2-3 minute loading process only to tell me it has connection problems... and that i need to wait until it can resume.. only it never does. I have to drop back to the main menu, even though i'm standing in the sub-pen ready to go.

Upon the second try at loading the save (and enduring the long load), it will let me through.

Yeah, some of you may say it will get better as they iron out the kinks.. but the fact that this type of crap is even possible in a single player game is ridiculous. But thats another topic.