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Posted March 30, 2021
So Epic has not cloud saves?
Posted March 30, 2021
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pds41: It's Steam, so I suspect if you questioned it, 99% of the Internet would tell you that it's perfectly fine and exactly what you would expect, before then calling Epic a garbage company for doing the exact same thing.

Best practice would be to have a prompt saying "Would you also like to delete all your installed games - Yes/No".
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ReynardFox: I'm quite baffled how 'delete this yes/no' isn't an industry standard option at all. Even if it just left your data on the hdd, thats still a really sloppy way to handle uninstalling.
Particularly when you realise that even the GoG offline installers ask you whether you want to keep save data when you uninstall!
Posted March 30, 2021
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Mister.Wolf: Doesn't Epic have cloud sync for the savegames?
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ReynardFox: It does, but as I never want to let myself become reliant on internet features I disabled it. Yes I can see the irony in that.
Makes sense, you were being consistent. And you'd have no way of knowing that the uninstall behaviour would be so over-reaching (doing so without a prompt is very unintuitive, regardless of what one may think of client A or B). Hope you manage to still have fun with the game, independently of platform, despite the bad experience caused by a third-party.
Posted March 30, 2021
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ReynardFox: It does, but as I never want to let myself become reliant on internet features I disabled it. Yes I can see the irony in that.
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Mister.Wolf: Makes sense, you were being consistent. And you'd have no way of knowing that the uninstall behaviour would be so over-reaching (doing so without a prompt is very unintuitive, regardless of what one may think of client A or B). Hope you manage to still have fun with the game, independently of platform, despite the bad experience caused by a third-party.
Well I do have the GOG versions of the Batman trilogy from when they arrived here, so I guess it's time to start from scratch with Arkham City. Probably for the best really, I bet the EGS version's save data wouldn't be compatible with the GOG version anyway and I'm glad to be rid of it.
Post edited March 30, 2021 by ReynardFox
Posted March 30, 2021
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timppu: Does Steam actually do the same? At least I recall it just removes all your games if you uninstall the client. I don't recall if there was a confirmation about that...

Then again I presume the save games would still be available in the cloud saves, for those games that support cloud saves.
If you uninstall the Steam client it doesn't uninstall any of your games. I've uninstalled Steam before several times to manually reinstall it to work around a given issue I had and it has never uninstalled any of my games when uninstalling the client.
Posted March 30, 2021
Well, It was weird to me because apparently it is the only launcher that works in that way. If the info I have found from the web is accurate then it is confirmed that If you uninstall Epic Launcher the games are deleted as well, indeed.

Pure unituitive garbage methodology. No warning, no nothing.
Post edited March 30, 2021 by Gudadantza
Posted March 31, 2021
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nightcraw1er.488: Clients, what are they good for, absolutely nothing.
Say it again.
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