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Games do that by design so that they can be cleanly uninstalled without removing saved games and preferences. Also you should be able to backup your documents
by georgeecollins 8y ago
Games do that by design so that they can be cleanly uninstalled without removing saved games and preferences. Also you should be able to backup your documents folder and not your programs folder and be safe. A good uninstaller should ask if you want to save them and remove them if you don’t.
I am not saying it is the best way. But I don’t think it is malicious or lazy.
- amaccuish 8y agoThere is literally a folder in every Windows profile (Vista onwards) called "Saved Games", it should all go there.
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- Wowfunhappy 8y ago^ This. And the amazing thing is it's probably the least common place for games to put save data. I think I've played exactly one game that ever used it.
- dmitrygr 8y agoMost likely because the proper API to get the path to that folder was vista-or-later and games preferred to be backward compatible
- Wowfunhappy 8y agoOkay, but now nothing supports XP, so there's no excuse!
- rovr138 8y agoMultiple users too. Where would you store all that if not inside the user directory. But Saved Games is definitely a better location.