Good marketing or just really stupid?

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Was almost completely turned off by the craptacular idea that save games should go in the "My Documents" folder instead of the game directory[right][snapback]101809[/snapback][/right]

You do realize that's the correct way to support multiple users on a single system playing the game, right? Writing savegame files into the game directory means that every user who plays must have write access to that directory, and most likely that the players can step on each other accidentally. ("That was your savegame I just deleted? I thought it was mine!", etc.)

It took Blizzard 8 patches to Diablo 1 just to get it to where it could run at all without administrator rights (they only tried in that eighth patch as far as I know, but the point is it took them a very long time even to think about it), and it still requires that the player have write access to the game directory even now. Starcraft is marginally better since it writes the saves to a subdirectory, but it's still not very permissions friendly.

Bottom line: all data generated by the normal use of the application should default to landing somewhere under the user's home directory. Whether "Local Settings\Application Data" might've been a better choice than "My Documents" is an open question, though. Incidentally, giving the home directories nicer names would've been a great step for the OS (think c:\home\<user>).