Data not saving correctly?

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So I was trying to save a player’s wins with DataStoreService, but even changing my wins count to 100 still prints Derpee_Kirbee's data has been saved as 0 Wins! Here is the script:

Script 
local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local myDataStore = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("myDataStore")

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	local leaderstats = Instance.new("Folder", player)
	leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"

	local wins  = Instance.new("IntValue",leaderstats)
	wins.Name = "Wins"
	
	while wait(10) do
		local success, errorMessage = pcall(function()
			myDataStore:SetAsync(player.UserId, player.Name .. " " .. player.leaderstats.Wins.Value)
		end)

		if success then
			print(player.Name .. "'s data has been saved as " .. player.leaderstats.Wins.Value .. " Wins!")
		else
			print(player.Name .. "'s data did not save!")
			warn(errorMessage)
		end
	end
end)



game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)

	local success, errorMessage = pcall(function()
		myDataStore:SetAsync(player.UserId, player.Name .. " " .. player.leaderstats.Wins.Value)
	end)

	if success then
		print(player.Name .. "'s data has been saved as " .. player.leaderstats.Wins.Value .. " Wins!")
	else
		print(player.Name .. "'s data did not save!")
		warn(errorMessage)
	end
end)
2

You didn’t get the value of myDataStore to the Leaderstats.Wins. You just updated the value to the data store which is zero.

3

@Dolphin_Worm I don’t entirely understand what you mean. I am changing the value and waiting for it to print again, but it’s still printing the same thing.

4 

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	local leaderstats = Instance.new("Folder", player)
	leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"

	local wins  = Instance.new("IntValue",leaderstats)
	wins.Name = "Wins"
	--You should add a pcall here to :GetAsync() the player data so when you :SetAsync() the player data it doesn't stay 0.
	while wait(10) do
		local success, errorMessage = pcall(function()
			myDataStore:SetAsync(player.UserId, player.Name .. " " .. player.leaderstats.Wins.Value)
		end)

		if success then
			print(player.Name .. "'s data has been saved as " .. player.leaderstats.Wins.Value .. " Wins!")
		else
			print(player.Name .. "'s data did not save!")
			warn(errorMessage)
		end
	end

Hope you get what I mean.

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5

Alright thanks a lot I’m sort of new to DataStores I will try that out

EDIT: @Dolphin_Worm I’m still sort of confused. Why would I need to GetAsync? Why wouldn’t it just get the current leaderstats value instead of an old one?

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Are you changing the value of the IntValue on the client? If so, the server cannot see that change.

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