>User deletes game folder= save permanently gone
>dead cells does this too
frick are these roguelite gay devs thinking.
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>User deletes game folder= save permanently gone. >dead cells does this too
this is some bait right
What?
You keep game folders after uninstalling?
>uninstall game
>delete save folder manually
>wtf why is my save folder deleted
good job anon
Your ability to read is completely vacant
if you're deleting folders manually you should probably check what's in them instead of complaining. The saves aren't deleted by the uninstaller so wtf are you doing?
You seem to be the one with the reading problem. You deleted your save
There is something deeply wrong with Gankerermin and their reading comprehension. I also had such a case just a few days ago, where two idiots simultaneously misread my comment in the stupidest way, not attributable to me.
Can't imagine your exasperation after you got yet another two moron replies to this post I quote.
These not your regular Gankerermins
These are ESL Gankerermins
no one in that comment chain lacks reading comprehension
OP deliberately deleted his save folder
yeah I hate this but I also hate the fact that the devs put it in random folders like Local and Roaming and you always have to look for it. they should all be in the same folder which is documents/saved games, not randomly spread across the hard drive
Documents are for documents not app data
app data goes in AppData
theres 3 folders in there for security
Security from what?
yep. saved games should go in roaming. techlets and nodevs need not reply.
>yeah I hate this but I also hate the fact that the devs put it in random folders like Local and Roaming
that's where it's supposed to go. Applications putting their shit in documents is the moronic off-spec trend
Ah yes "roaming", first thing I think of when at home playing games on pc in my limited free time. Its fricking moronic.
It's literally APPDATA. APPLICATION DATA you dumb computer illiterate Black person
Zoomers are fricking hopeless man. Us millenial CS chads are never ever going to go hungry.
Windows run
appdata/local/etc
sort by date modified
its not hard
>want to copy save data
>go to ~/Library/Application Support where all normal programs save their data
>it's not there
>it's in Documents for some fricking reason
Paradox Game?
klei
Good luck trying to get anyone to agree where to put them. There's like 17 places to put your save games on Windows, and Windows 12 will probably add more.
use steam cloud
nta
steam cloud barely works properly for dead cells
found about it the hard way as well, dropped the game right after. I'm not getting all the way to A20 again.
Roguelites shouldn't have saves to begin with. Frick meta progression.
But bones files!
...Should be in the executable. It should modify itself.
Name three that do that. Even Nethack stores bones files as separate files.
>he doesn't save his games to the desktop
What's the problem? They are backed up on the cloud.
Hell I always use symlinks to save pirate saves on my dropbox
Why the frick would you delete your game folder? I get deleting the game from the library but there is literally no reason to delete the folder which contains the saves. Next time just save with cloud.
why would i keep it
To keep your saves you actual moron
howd i know it saves the game there
By checking it before deleting it. Are you a console player or something? You don't just delete pc software files without first learning what they do. You screwed. It happens. Don't blame the system
>how did I know the folder named saves has saved games
>howd i know it saves the game in the folder where it stores all its files
jesus christ genz is doomed
Switch to Mac and stay on Xbox you mouth breathing moron. Obviously windows made for grandmas is far too advanced for you.
so this is the so-called zoomer i've heard so much about
why keep system32 its just taking space delete it
>Delete file
>WTF WHY IS THE FILE GONE?!
Do zoomers really?
You might be the dumbest person I've seen so far this month.
game should save in appdata not in folder.
You should check folders before wiping them. If you'd just opened it and read the save folder it wouldn't be an issue. I bet you turn the oven on without opening the door/looking in the window first, too.
If I ask to uninstall it it must uninstall absolutely everything. This is the correct anti-botnet practice.
Hey anon, you should try deleting the System32 folder, it just takes a good chunk of your drive without actually doing anything.
Doesn't that have cloud saving?
Uninstalling should leave your computer like it was before you installed the game.
Why shouldn't it?
>uninstall microsoft word
>graduate thesis gets deleted
Your notepad document is compatible with more than just Word. Your game save isn't.
uninstalling slay the spire doesn't delete the saves
what OP did was
>uninstall microsoft word
>wtf why is my documents folder still there, delete
>rougelite game player
>surprised that all progress is lost after uninstalling the game
What did they expect? To keep progress between installs?
OP probably doesn't know how to restore files from the recycle bin
>Delete folder containing game's files
>Game's files get deleted
>delete files
>files are deleted
WOW HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW?
While we can all agree that once again op is a homosexual, I think everyone would benefit from games having a standard, easy to access and backup save folder instead of the mess we have right now
michaelsoft tried this by creating the "saved games" folder in windows 7 but as per usual most developers are homosexuals incapable of following spec
I might be wrong, but wasn't that folder there since Vista?
could be, never used vista
I figure the main problem would be defining what's a game and what isn't. It's probably less work for the computer to draw as many files from the same place, anyway.
Dev here. It's because steam cloud can be configured to automatically pick up files in the install folder of the game + games automatically have permission to write in their install folder. Furthermore, its a reliable location for cross platform file handling, ex: linux or Steam Deck specifically.
personally i think it's easier to find the game's files in the game's folder. a link to the save location should be mandatory if they're going to go hide it in hidden folders or sneak it into my documents.
>GamefolderSaved Games
>CUserUSERNAMEAppDataRoaming? Local? maybe LocalLow?
My Documents>Saved Games or My Games. Use it, you fricks.
Create a symbolic link between the game save folder and a central save location wherever you want
Reminder that zoomers don't understand how and where files are stored in computers and are worse at using them than your mom.
every GOG game simply asking if you need to delete saves or not
simple as that
>but muh folder
not my problem
I learned this early on starting terraria after getting a new computer way back then.
Save data files aren't usually that heavy, so I usually just back them up on google drives and flash drives every now and then.
Not having all files of a program in a single folder = pajeet programming
This. Doesn't matter what Micro$hit says the best practices are.
Absolute moron. Save files should never be in the install folder under any circumstance.
Why do videogames feel entitled to ignore standard software deployment practices? Installations should be completely immutable and read-only, while save data should be in the config folder (~/.config on GNU/Linux, %APPDATA% on Windows) and random unimportant mutable data in cache or data folders (e.g. %LOCALAPPDATA% or ~/.local/share). And yet every game has parts of it config in its install folder, parts in appdata, profile save in localappdata and character save in the documents folder.
>Installations should be completely immutable and read-only
Says who? Some Linux gay?
Also absolutely no foldee on my PC should be read-only, it's my machine and I want the ability to modify whatever program I run on it.
>Says who?
Everyone who does sensible software deployment.
Don't pretend Windows is any different. Almost every nonancient program treats its %PROGRAMFILES% folder as read-only and never modifies it by itself (outside of its installer/uninstaller/updater components, since Windows didn't provide a system-wide packagemanager.)
Modern Windows apps (as in Windows Store apps) also have actually immutable folders in some hidden location.
>Also absolutely no foldee on my PC should be read-only, it's my machine and I want the ability to modify whatever program I run on it.
You can. A folder being read-only doesn't stop you, the user, from removing that flag or modifying it with superuser rights.
However, random software should neither be able to nor even try to modify software installation folders, both its own and other programs', unless specifically granted permission to do so (e.g. if it's a package manager).
Same goes for users on multi-user systems: a non-admin user should not be able to modify anything in a system-wide folder.
>everyone who isn't stupid agrees with me
>no I won't elaborate
Cool argument, gay, next build I'll put the app.config right next to the executable just to spite you.
>Why do videogames feel entitled to ignore standard software deployment practices?
You're completely moronic or a zoomer. This shit is relatively new and f you play any old game or use any old software it will never have an alternative save location. I think in the early 2000's they started using the Documents folders for saves/configs, and then they went to the config folders of today later.
>relatively new
Windows XP is 22 years old. That's more than half of the total lifetime of PC gaming. Non-Windows systems are even older. Also, I kinda doubt that console games get to modify data outside of specifically designated save locations at all.
You're missing the point. The standards don't get set or implemented overnight.
Slay the Spire is a 2017 multi-platform game and I'm quite sure that at least some of these platforms don't allow writing in the game dir. The standards were probably well in place before its devs even started learning to code.
>The standards were probably well in place before its devs even started learning to code.
You might be surprised. A lot of people also probably learned antiquated methods or build off of something (like an engine or framework) that uses them.
Okay, so they managed to do it properly for every platform except for Windows?
Funny enough, they did not.
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Slay_the_Spire
The devs were probably not very experienced when it comes to building software.
Lmao
They must've done it at least for the console/mobile versions, though.
Forward slashes work as well and are much nicer in many situations.
>Forward slashes work
Your machine converts them to backslashes, that's why
Yes, and?
It doesn't universally convert them, so in some environments the forward slash will not work.
enable steam cloud moron
also maybe dont manually delete game folders homosexual
>best save folder location
/Saved games
>acceptable solution
/Documents/My games
>lazy programming tier
install folder/saves
>absolute trashcan fire tier
/Appdata/Local
>/Appdata/Local
What about AppdataLocalLow? Also, folders are done with backslashes, not forward slashes.
>/Documents/My Games/Game Folder/Saves
Why is this so hard? just put them all in one place.
frick off, savedata right in the game folder is the way
if i'm doing the folder management myself then i want the data involvee to be as transparent as possible
otherwise you should manage it with uninstaller wizards and such
Speaking of forward and backslashes, when was it decided that / is a regular slash and is a "backslash?" / should be backslash, since we write top to bottom and left to right, which would mean we're slashing backwards.
is backslash because it's leaning backwards.
>since we write top to bottom and left to right
we right left to right, but the english alphabet is written bottom to top. Think about where you place your pencil when you write on a line
I put my pencil/pen at the top, because I'm not a madman.
so you still write like a child and have chickenscratch handwriting. That's on you
Wait, so the claim you're making is that when you write a character of the alphabet, most of which are made of or contain straight lines, you start at the bottom? So a capital i or a lowercase L, which is just a single straight line (because nobody hand writes serifs), you start at the bottom? You're full of shit.
>because nobody hand writes serifs
>what is cursive
the absolute state of mutt education, holy shit
>not having backups
user error
are you stupid? what the frick else do you think is going to happen. this is why steam cloud saves are an incredibly useful feature
dats right, save data goes to xdg-config
>keep all game data in the game’s folder so it can be uninstalled with the delete key and there’s no tendrils reaching into forever
>support cloud saves so that your shit is saved anyway
This is better than bloating my hidden folders with your cfg files and shit
What the frick is an app data folder?
Isn't it common knowlodge that games save files are always in documents?
>games save files are always in documents
this isn't true
>inb4 most games save in documents
not true either
No, not really
For me, it's where most saves are
>I deliberately deleted these files and now I am mad
>How could this be happening to me??
>not wanting all files related to a program in the folder it's located in
>expecting it to be anywhere else otherwise
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