US video game sales have record quarter as consumers stay at home

Re:US video game sales have record quarter as consumers stay... by komali2 on Friday May 15, 2020 @12:55PM (#23194384)

And lord was it annoying as fuck to get off Microsoft store. It was something like a 50gb download and it could get version desync, the only way to get around was (in my experience) was to completely wipe it and reinstall. But completely wiping was ALSO super hard to do, because it was saved in like... $APPdata or some weird hidden folder.

All this on top of the fact that my c:/ drive is tiny and I want to install my games on an external harddrive. In fact I think I had a double install going at one point.

Long story short the microsoft store sucks.

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Re:US video game sales have record quarter as consumers stay... by karatestomp on Friday May 15, 2020 @01:01PM (#23194470)

I'm glad I've avoided it so far. I already have three stores I use and that's at least one too many, but Epic won't stop showering me with free games (I've bought one and have a library of... 30ish? Maybe more?) so I keep them around for now.

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Re:US video game sales have record quarter as consumers stay... by VRay on Friday May 15, 2020 @02:10PM (#23195361)

I'm surprised that the %APPDATA% folder is so mysterious and confusing for someone posting on HackerNews in good faith..

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Re:US video game sales have record quarter as consumers stay... by BorgHunter on Friday May 15, 2020 @03:35PM (#23196422)

I would certainly find it mysterious and confusing to find a game installed to %APPDATA%, and I've been a PC gamer for over two decades. Saved games and config files, sure, possibly mods too, but if a game installed somewhere without asking first I'd expect it to be in %PROGRAMFILES% or %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%. Either way, as the owner of a PC with multiple SSDs I'd be somewhat miffed by not being asked first where the game should be installed, as I put most of my games on my D: drive, which is much larger (but slower) than my C: drive.

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Re:US video game sales have record quarter as consumers stay... by komali2 on Monday May 18, 2020 @03:25PM (#23227217)

Generally speaking, people don't like being called liars, or idiots.

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