Well, even easier on a Mac, since I can just use symlinks to put it anywhere I choose, unlike in Windows where there is only one Monolithic Steam folder in which ALL YOUR GAMES MUST FIT.
But like the terrible annoyances of the installation program for Safari and iTunes on Windows... just because I can work-around them being stupid doesn't mean I should have to. This one's pretty basic if you ask anyone actually familiar with native apps on a given OS.
Apparently this fault is by design. According to a dev's post on the Steam Forum, they didn't want the game data to be "hidden" somewhere, so that a user deleting the Steam app bundle (relatively small) would fail to remove the actual games.
I'm not sure how such a clueless user would be that much more likely to realize they'd need to throw away the Steam Content folder then anyway.
The worst part of it IMO is that each user will have their own set of data files. If the underlying filesystem supported deduplication that wouldn't be a problem but HFS+ doesn't do that. Not to mention a lot of people use Time Machine/Dropbox/etc. to back up their Documents directory, which now includes a possibly enormous amount of non-essential data (you can re-download a game from Steam at any time). Now it would be nice if the saved games were there for that purpose (and they are, buried amongst the clutter of the steamapps folder).
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But like the terrible annoyances of the installation program for Safari and iTunes on Windows... just because I can work-around them being stupid doesn't mean I should have to. This one's pretty basic if you ask anyone actually familiar with native apps on a given OS.
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I'm not sure how such a clueless user would be that much more likely to realize they'd need to throw away the Steam Content folder then anyway.
The worst part of it IMO is that each user will have their own set of data files. If the underlying filesystem supported deduplication that wouldn't be a problem but HFS+ doesn't do that. Not to mention a lot of people use Time Machine/Dropbox/etc. to back up their Documents directory, which now includes a possibly enormous amount of non-essential data (you can re-download a game from Steam at any time). Now it would be nice if the saved games were there for that purpose (and they are, buried amongst the clutter of the steamapps folder).
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