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Re:Dotfile madness by georgeecollins on Saturday February 02, 2019 @12:51PM (#19064437)
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.

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Re:Dotfile madness by amaccuish on Saturday February 02, 2019 @12:54PM (#19064459)
There is literally a folder in every Windows profile (Vista onwards) called "Saved Games", it should all go there.
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Re:Dotfile madness by Wowfunhappy on Saturday February 02, 2019 @03:40PM (#19065565)
^ 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.
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Re:Dotfile madness by dmitrygr on Saturday February 02, 2019 @04:06PM (#19065710)
Most likely because the proper API to get the path to that folder was vista-or-later and games preferred to be backward compatible
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Re:Dotfile madness by Wowfunhappy on Saturday February 02, 2019 @05:03PM (#19066017)
Okay, but now nothing supports XP, so there's no excuse!
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Re:Dotfile madness by rovr138 on Saturday February 02, 2019 @04:17PM (#19065766)
Multiple users too. Where would you store all that if not inside the user directory. But Saved Games is definitely a better location.
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