Restore+App Data not working?

[TLRtheory]

One of the biggest things I hoped to accomplish was moving my game saves to the cloud so I didn't have to restart FF3.

... so I went through a painfully long process of backing up my 1020 then restoring my 1020s backup to a freshly reset 520.

No app data whatsoever was restored with the apps. Did I miss something?

 

[anon(8657436)]

It works only with apps whose developers have given the feature. Since the feature is new, it will take some time before developers update their apps with that capability.

 

[TLRtheory]

Well that's underwhelming... I was hoping for a less cumbersome solution.

Microsoft could've taken this into their own hands by simply allowing us to include App Data in our backups so loss-less restoring would be a controllable variable. Now we have to wait for each and every individual developer to add in support for this feature, and all the past issues of abandoned/poorly updated Xbox Live titles will have insult added to injury.

I don't have much bad to say about Windows Phone 8.1, but that's a pretty huge disappointment. I hope they resolve this before they consider WP8.1 RTM otherwise they will have seriously dropped the ball on what could've been a monumental improvement on backup/restore.