• AdmiralShat@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    Microsoft OWNS not just gaming companies, but one of the largest gaming hardware companies and many of the largest game developers.

    You’d think by now we’d get a dedicated Saves folder to organize this shit after this long.

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      9 months ago

      My Documents > My Games is kinda the default, but then you have steam cloud syncing and tons of games that default to various Appdata folder seemingly at random.

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      9 months ago

      C:\Users\Username\Saved Games is a thing. Not a lot of games use it though.

      There’s also C:\Users\Username\Documents\My Games which seems more popular with some devs. Though some devs inexplicably use the base Documents folder, which is just obnoxious.

      But yeah, a lot of devs still use AppData. I read a post from a dev once that explained the advantages and disadvantages to each Directory, though I can’t remember the specifics, there is at least logic to why saves get stored in so many odd locations.

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        9 months ago

        hough some devs inexplicably use the base Documents folder

        Shoutout to Anno 1404 which creates no less than 4 directories in the base Documents directory each for slightly different releases for the game that they later rolled into a single release so your user data is strewn across all of them if you bought the most complete release of the game