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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

They use Documents because it’s an easy way to ensure saves don’t persist between users. If you and a sibling both play on the same computer, you don’t necessarily want to be sharing game saves. Since the Documents folder is on a per-user basis, the saves are per-user as well. If they simply saved the games in the Program Files folder, saves would potentially persist across users. And anyone who has had a younger sibling accidentally erase all of their saves knows what a bad idea that is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It also allows them to persist after a reinstall of the game or of Windows itself, as the Documents and media folders are (optionally) not wiped when reformatting via a Windows install. For games that for whatever reason (fuckin' Dark Souls 3) don't have cloud saving this is a boon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Make it a new personal folder called "Games".
Not the first time MS fiddled with those settings lately.