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I don’t understand why software companies that make things for Windows can’t use the features that it provides. I also don’t understand why every freaking thing in the world must put its files in my Documents folder!

Several cases in point:

1. Games
Nearly all games that don’t save their files into the program folder
save them in my Documents, usually a separate folder for each
company. Microsoft made a special folder for you! It’s called Games.
This folder is specifically for save games and game config files. USE IT!
I don’t need a separate folder for each company’s files.
Neverwinter Nights 2, Spore(which I hate cause of DRM), Stubbs the
Zombie(which I love except for this), EA games, Tomb Raider Underworld
and Bioshock are just a few that make a separate folder for each.
Some games also make an additional folder called My Games. While
I appreciate the effort, there is already a folder for this.

2. Other software
Adobe, AdobeStockPhotos(which isn’t even supported anymore),
Axialis Librarian, Cyberlink, FrostWire, GomPlayer, My Shapes,
My Virtual Machines, My Widgets, Nero Collections, NeroVision,
Stardock, The KMPlayer, and Ulead DVD Movie Factory are several
folders that I don’t want in my Document folder. I want my Documents
to actually contain my documents, not everything in the world! If
these programs want to store files somewhere I’d appreciate a way
to specify where to put them! I don’t mind them being in my profile folder,
that’s what it’s for, but I’m just tired of the Documents folder being
the catch-all for anything a program wants to store.

I have 42 folders in my Documents folder, 9 of them I want there. Seriously.

I just got Sacred 2 and it is so DRM laden that I almost took it back. I really should, but I love the game too much. It has activations, so if my computer crashes and I don’t get to uninstall it, I lose the ability to play it. Good thing I have Norton Ghost huh? Need to install it though…

Well is turns out that Bethesda has the same thoughts about DRM as I and many others do.

Read the story at kotaku.

Well, my favorite for-profit company.  Here is a link to their 2008 customer report. Feel free to read all of it, but my favorite parts are the section on DRM, and the section about the “Gamers Bill of Rights”

“Stardock’s position isn’t anti-DRM or anti-copy protection but rather anti-stupid-DRM and anti-stupid-copy protection.”

I agree wholeheartedly! If all publishers would follow this, fewer people would have complaints about DRM.

Another good quote from that PDF, “It’s annoying to keep track of a CD and a pirate certainly doesn’t have to worry about that since they’re running a cracked version. So you actually end up better off if you’re a pirate.”

Nuff said there.