Anonymous edits have been disabled on the wiki. If you want to contribute please login or create an account.

Warning for game developers: PCGamingWiki staff members will only ever reach out to you using the official press@pcgamingwiki.com mail address.
Be aware of scammers claiming to be representatives or affiliates of PCGamingWiki who promise a PCGW page for a game key.

Topic on Glossary talk:Game data

This is a permanent link to the first version of this post. You can view later versions on the post history page.

We do not really worry about that. As far as I'm concerned, at least using the data path is great. Plus SDL2's SDL_GetPrefPath recommends the data directory, and it's enough of an achievement as it is.

As to FTL, I am not aware of it being a botched job like that - both the config file and the save files are in XDG_DATA_HOME, rather than one always using .local/share as the page implies.

If it uses either path, it's meant to be true. And in fact, it can be both - see Bit.Trip Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien, which uses XDG_DATA_HOME, but fails to use XDG_CONFIG_HOME correctly.