If you've ever looked for a game save file on your computer, you know that most PC games save their save files in different locations and don't have a unified save path. This caused problems for many players, who had to struggle to find the location of each save game. Some people recently posted on the Reddit forum: It’s already 2024, why do PC games still not have a unified save location?
The archive files of some games will be saved directly in the folder under the game installation directory, or in a special folder provided by the game platform. Although many people are now using cloud storage, sometimes in order to manually back up local archive files, or want to modify the archive, you have to dig through a large number of folders, which is quite annoying.
Many players have noticed that the "AppData" folder should not be used to save game saves. The original intention of creating this folder is to store files that users do not need to manually manage. If a game developer sets the save path to this specific folder, it means they don't really know what they're doing.
In fact, there is a special game archive location in Windows system, namely the "SavedGames" folder. However, many developers do not use this folder, even Microsoft's own games.