Why can't more developers use the Windows Savegame folder?

[BoogieMan]

Seriously, most games put a folder in the Documents folder or in the MyGame folder within the documents fodler

Then there those that put them in some stupid folder in the appdata folder. Not ideal but they usually can be found with a simple file search based off the game/developer name, or what you name the save in game.

Then, the worst of all, games like this that store them in some gibberish named folder inside your Steam folder. No common sense searches such as the game name, developer name, or save game names will reveal the location of the files. You shouldn't have to use internet searches to find out where your freakin' save game are.

Then you toss in the archaic save system this game uses. Manually deleting all your old saves in game one by one is very tedious, you you sure? Yes. Delete another one. Are you sure? YES! It's another reason to find where the files are stored and delete obsolete ones all at once. Sure, the save game files are small but they add up. The moment they aren't needed but are still there they become junk files.

So if you want to backup your stuff, hope you remember the non standard locations, then you have to go refresh your memory on where the saves are located, back up all the gibberish files, make a note in your backup of what game this gibberish is associated with, and if you have to uninstall steam for whatever reason, or a drive goes bad local files are toast. People are more likely to make backups when it's not a chore to do so.



I don't mean to come off sounding so harsh, but when the operating system has this more more clear and convenient place to store them, and most developers do.. Why not just follow suit?

[Sticky Wicket]

Where exactly ARE the save files kept?

I have tried to find them.

[prizim]

i cannot stand the windows save garbage. I want the saved files in the game directory. not lost somewhere in some garbage windows bull S* area.

[BoogieMan]

Originally posted by Just Like Heaven:

Where exactly ARE the save files kept?

I have tried to find them.

\Steam\userdata\UniqueNumberToYou\637090

Originally posted by prizim:

i cannot stand the windows save garbage. I want the saved files in the game directory. not lost somewhere in some garbage windows bull S* area.

Most game seem to use either the Documents folder, or a subfolder within it. It's already made easier for the player by default to back them up if they are all in the same location. Better than navigating to every single game folder and backing them up this way.

Doubly so since the sub folder within a game folder is usually called something non descriptive like "saves" or "savegames" while getting them from the window Document folder not only already organizes the names for you, it also (often) backs up your game settings and custom keybinds, etc.

Seems better in every way to me, if you make it a point to back them up from time to time, but that applies no matter where they are.

[MaebeKnot]

It's bad program design to assume the software user will have read AND write access to the same folder the program is running from. Most gamers don't run into this issues since most gamers are "Admins" on their OS user accounts. When you are not admin this becomes an issue. So on windows, you can safely assume the user has read and write access to their user folder in documents. That is why you see the saves there so often.

Saving the data in the local folder is actually the old way that can't seem to die. Kind of like .ini files. The old way that worked but now there are better ways. Yet .ini files won't go away completely. Old habits [of programmers] die hard.

[Sticky Wicket]

Originally posted by BoogieMan:

\Steam\userdata\uniquenumbertoyou\637090

Originally posted by Just Like Heaven:

Where exactly ARE the save files kept?

I have tried to find them.

\Steam\userdata\uniquenumbertoyou\637090

Many thanks.

I think this info should be a sticky for the time being. There are lots of people having problems with their save files not showing up in-game when they launch it. Being able to check thif they are actually there or not would be helpful to them.