I just cleared out nearly 100 GB of data from about a dozen old games I Uninstalled years ago. WITCHER 2 and 3, DOS 2, Mass effect, xcom 1 and 2, Herizon 1… and more, all left up to 30 GB files after using game Uninstallers.
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Former Windows and game programmer here — it’s usually because at least on Windows, when one program tries to delete files made by another program, you can get all kinds of access denied and virus warnings (because those are things viruses like to do). Rather than figure out the right way or have to re-engineer the main program executable, it’s easier for programmers facing a tight shipping deadline to just say “forget it, not our problem.”
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