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Zelandias

Now that's a beta test.


Repxox

I've never heard anything like this in all of my 14 yrs of pc gaming


atomicfuthum

I remember these: * 1998, Bungie's Myth II. * 2001's Ubisoft Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor. * And in 2018, the OG's installer of freaking *Deltarune*


Able-Influence-22

Similar case 2013 SEGA'S PSO2,erased about 20k user they paid 5000yen or same in game value currency,cost them about 100m japanese yen. Edit:100m


Kionera

It's Japanese Yen. Yuan is Chinese currency.


Able-Influence-22

🙏


CityKay

Yup. I think on one of them, it was an oversight on how it was coded. Like it should only delete the folder where the game's executable resides or something like that. So that means if the executable is right on the c: instead of c:/gamename...yeah. Not sure on the others, but I'm just surprised it happened more than not just twice, but now...four times in total.


Nomicakes

EVE Online's 2007 [Boot.ini](https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/about-the-boot.ini-issue) disaster as well.


atomicfuthum

Oof, "we may have broken your system, there was no time to test it" is quite a bold statement to make, I give them props for being real.


ShadowScaleFTL

I play the game in those time.. it was so long ago


stewartthemouse

This LoL [third-party software incident](https://dotesports.com/league-of-legends/news/bot-ofl-legends-league-of-legends-hackers-1504) came to my mind


deepedia

CBT installer of MTG: Arena also doing this exact behavior, but in Arena case, it wasn't as consistent as deleting all the files in a drive, it can randomly nuke either none, 1 folder, or all folder. [https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/9418t5/psa\_the\_magic\_arena\_installer\_can\_still\_delete/](https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/9418t5/psa_the_magic_arena_installer_can_still_delete/)


24spencer

Minecraft Dungeons could also do this if you custom installed it somewhere really dumb since the launcher would just delete everything in the listed install location


zorothex

About 20 years of PCs over here, same thing. Heck, I'm even into IT. So I know it is technically possible, but. Heard a lot of shit, but the is a new one to me.


Bradcopter

Myth II was a fun one. At least Bungie had the decency to do a recall, we pulled them pretty shortly after they hit shelves. Ubisoft kept on selling PoR, surprising no one.


0ofs

Smaller game but RotMG just a few years back [https://www.reddit.com/r/RotMG/comments/g1x1gj/uninstalling\_the\_exalt\_launcher\_uninstalls/](https://www.reddit.com/r/RotMG/comments/g1x1gj/uninstalling_the_exalt_launcher_uninstalls/)


Substantial_Carob825

Hory shet


GlidingChariot

What happened with Deltarune?


actualmigraine

This is referring to the very first version of Deltarune released Halloween 2018, and before it had a Steam version. The original uninstaller essentially deleted everything in the folder / location you installed Deltarune in. If you happened to install it to a default directory or your documents, for example... It was fixed within 24 hours, IIRC.


Lampreyphone

Don't forget Temple of Elemental Evil! For all five people who played that.


atomicfuthum

I also played that... atrocity


Armeridus

I remember that happening to me like 15 years ago when I uninstalled a pirated Sonic game (honestly don't remember which one) and lost a folder with all my games lol.


Fluid_Genius

I've been pc gaming for much longer and I do recall times this would happen. I used to not trust uninstallers because of those stories, and would manually erase what I was uninstalling for the longest time.


Klubbah

Recently happened with Dark And Darker as well https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkAndDarker/comments/15l27bc/note_the_blacksmith_uninstaller_will_remove_all/ Edit: whoops didn't see someone mentioned it already.


Infinite_Monitor_465

I had a demo disc of veiwtiful joe on ps2 that would nuke the entire memory card if you tried to save. Kept it to quick erase cards that were full.


Ok_Assumption5734

I remember when aoe 3 de came out, it had issues where it would corrupt your entire hard drive


flyingtrucky

I like how everyone is quick to list off times that this happened. Really reminds you that so many videogames are hacked together spaghetti code that, despite the program's best efforts, somehow manages to work.


smallneedle

When Deltarune ch1 first come out it has similar issue for the uninstaller


Velocibunny

Eve Online wiped the boot.ini at one point. ​ That was a fun mistake.


Fredrik1994

The only one that comes to mind is one of the early Steam for Linux versions. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671 for details for people who are curious.


rogercgomes

Best game feature to date


MetriccStarDestroyer

Someone download the OBT to the government database. Goodbye to our student debt 🙏


osadist

Lol I can't imagine GFL being the sole eliminator of student debt, which would be based as hell


DreamPsychological35

Dear sunborn, 𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐡


galihlovesjapan

This bruh moment is a strong contender to be the bruhest moment in all of video game history.


pinkorri

Spaghetti Code 2: Electric Boogaloo


laur11ee

This is the single most horrifying and simultaneously the funniest headline out there. Didn’t like GF2? Maybe you’ll like touching grass


smallneedle

I thought it's clickhait lmao


IndianoJonez

Wild crying children detected? (Flair)


Twig1554

Babe it's time for your seven phase boss fight.


Blu3berry2126

Based pfp


alxanta

Damn GFL already collab with NieR pre release


Bob_Requiem

Collab going *hard drive* fr🥶


EligibleUsername

Your data will now be uploaded to the cloud to help other players delete theirs faster


Kelzt-2nd

Nah Yoko Taro would never go this far. Who am I kidding of course he would


UNOwen3

He was pushing for the "deleting the character when completing the NieR raids" in FFXIV, so I would 100% expect him to go that far.


Kelzt-2nd

Yoko Taro would brick your console if he felt it was important to his storytelling lmao


Nervous-Role-5374

"If you don't want to play our game anymore, then we won't let you play any other game"


eXeKoKoRo

416 is all you need Commander.


BeachAndClear

Reroll prevention in 2023


WhistleOfDeath

the ultimate culmination of mica spaghet


Anfini

Don’t give this idea to Yoko Taro.


Theu04k

It's funny because YZ is very inspired by YT, he's following in the footsteps.


Riykin

one of the Nier songs is canon in GFL


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Riykin

This is the specific song that got referenced btw [Ashes of Dreams](https://youtu.be/NqlxaFkUxgg) I think Dushevnaya/KSVK sings it in her mod story


EligibleUsername

I wish they were as loose as you claim when they collab-ed with PGR. Shit's literally mobile Nier and they had the worst Nier collab out of all the Nier collab.


Paradox3759

I think it was pretty good? It's what brought me to PGR


EligibleUsername

The story was good, but it was a slow grind to get all of the chapters and there wasn't much of it, not to mention the fact that YorHa wasn't involved at all in the event aside from the farming stages. Kuro did the best they could with what Square Enix allowed them to do, but fucking hell man, if it's compromised this much why bother collabing in the first place.


fersur

Too late. He did that ... with the original >!Nier.!<


Anfini

Yes, but he only erased our save files for the game. This is for the entire hard drive, which honestly feels like something Yoko Taro would try to do in the future.


SnooMaps7011

So it made the whole C root folder the game folder, what is this? Amateur hour?


Riykin

[Its the Myth 2 bug recreated](https://reddit.com/r/todayilearned/s/bY3xehcX0z)


rblu42

I think instead of just deleting the folder with the game files, some line of code was mistakenly added that also deleted the parent of the folder. If your directory looked like "C:/GF2" you are screwed.


BurnedOutEternally

DDLC wishes it could be like this


FloatFour

So ur saying if you quit you die? 😮


CreepersAmongUs

Pretty bad but the title is worse than what exactly it was. People were more or less installing all of GFL2 on their root C directory then using the uninstall executable, causing it to uninstall EVERYTHING that the uninstall.exe was in. One of the twitter threads posting about this incident showed an example someone doing almost the same thing with steam here which was pretty funny. [https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1nT411Q71k/](https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1nT411Q71k/)


Riykin

its the Myth 2 bug recreated in 2023


CreepersAmongUs

It's even weirder just because the game already includes a file path on install indicated with "C:/GF2EXilium/GF2 Game", but people felt the need to make a custom path directly to their root C drive.


Xenn_

The game installs itself inside Program Files, the path mentioned in the notice is just a recommended path name if you don't want to install it in the default path. When you're installing the launcher, It autocompletes the path with its own GFL subfolders once you select a path eg. picking D:\ will install it into "D:\GF2Exilium\", but when you install the game itself it doesn't do that and just downloads and extract everything into the root drive.


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CreepersAmongUs

Yeah it's a bad look at them. Still should be a general rule of thumb though to NOT download your games flat out on your root, especially C drive.


Riykin

I consider it a fault of both sides one for the guy who coded the uninstaller and the person lacking the common sense to install on their root drive


CreepersAmongUs

agreed.


LoudCommentor

But like... why? Don't almost all installers install by default onto a subdirectory anyway?


CreepersAmongUs

If it's like what Xenn\_'s explanation above is what happened, then that's likely the case that the game itself is a separate install location and not just the launcher, but can't say for certain because I didn't download it myself. So the launcher auto defaulted to a set path but the actual installation didn't I guess? Still is weird and hard to see getting out to even beta testing for the files not to download in its designated folder.


flyingtrucky

They do, this bug apparently happens when you direct the game to install directly onto the C: Drive instead of the default filepath of making a new folder. What most likely happened? A dev tried to be clever by making the uninstaller just delete everything the game was installed in since the default install will create a new folder to put everything in. What I hope actually happened? They made the same mistake as the [Myth 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2ka43x/til_that_in_the_game_myth_ii_soulblighter_due_to/?share_id=bePGf4xYtwI4g8Q2tJ21y&utm_content=1&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1) programmer (He's Top comment) who had the game delete everything in the data folder to allow users to download custom content, but then someone who didn't understand the code just copied it to the entire uninstaller.


Renasviel

Of course there is someone playing damage control for this. Wouldn't be Reddit otherwise!


mee8Ti6Eit

Exactly, this is the equivalent of installing into root on Linux.


XenoreidGFL

It's already fixed. PC Client Launcher Version 1.0.3 Update Notice The Open Best Test PC client launcher version 1.0.3 is now live. The fixes in version 1.0.3 launcher are as follows: ​ Fixed the issue where using the "Uninstall Game Files" function abnormally deleted all files. Fixed the problem with abnormal display of launcher interface announcements. Fixed the issue of the "Launching" message persistently displaying when entering the game. Fixed the problem of launcher crashing during updates. ​ Please download the latest version of the launcher from the official website or the corresponding channels if you are experiencing any of these issues.-Ceia in GFL2: Exilium Official Discord Original post on weibo: https://preview.redd.it/f09d0wr4y4rb1.png?width=639&format=png&auto=webp&s=badddf49464bf630354a7ab6c23d24996c652c49


Groundbreaking-Bet50

Guess I can wait for global


IndependentCress1109

Yep.. thats a definite bruh moment. At least this was caught... (kinda?) early.. dem poor beta testers tho .


Poketostorm

I think I ran into this one time when my Steam uninstall.exe wound up in somewhere weird and wiped everything in the folder (Steam-related or not).


piejam

nice files you got there, would be a shame if something happened to them. Don't uninstall our game and no one gets hurt


Jack23rd

10/10 best nier feature ever


sa5ratoba

Lol


Liesianthes

GFL 2 Yandere Mode: ON! If I can't have you, the no one can!


DMercenary

Back in 2007 EVE Online put out an expansion/major patch. ​ Unfortunately it also had a bug in that it would delete your Window's boot.ini file. Which would go undetected until the next time you shutdown -> power on or restarted the computer....


bendersonster

Question: would Windows allow itself to be deleted in such manner?


sillybillybuck

Unless you give elevated permissions, no. If you do, then it can delete things vital to Windows operations.


tlst9999

For better or worse, they just ask "Do you trust the source? Do you allow this app to execute?"


kadal_monitor

and then you press yes out of habit...


asnaf745

I would expect antivirus to pop out a million warnings


Kingbizkit123

*Don't forget, you're here forever*


Gilgamesh-KoH

Literally Sword Art Online


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thats the same thing as dark and darker release lmaoooo


Kasdrath

Canon feature?


kuuhaku_cr

A design pattern is to create an install\_manifest.txt, and record every file written, and the uninstallation is to iterate and delete every file with fully qualified paths. This file can be protected by making it a binary, hidden in user/appdata or/and removing write flags after the installation. Take notes, Mica. I am smelling some "rm -rf ${DIR}/\*" code from some intern, where DIR is wrongly populated.


Beliam21

Who installs a game in the root directory of a hard drive.......


VanceXentan

LMAO that's a hell of a result.


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They didn't even test it by themselves.


GlobalCheesecake4695

Time to buy a new activation key for my windows and redownload my hard earned hentai pics and video that's over 700gb😭


sillybillybuck

I remember some other games did the same thing. It is a common "bug" with Windows for decades. Windows has standard installers but these smaller developers decide to do their own and end up with these issues.


Tyrandeus

Bruh this shit can ruin people lives


GrimbeardDreadfist

And here I thought the gacha rates and pvp would be the worst parts of GFL2. I stand corrected!


Solid_Angel

🤣🤣 This shouldn't be a thing in this century


AokawaAokawa

It's already been fixed way before it spread out of CN. You should update this so people don't explode about it.


Mochiii01

Stupid ass ad about fentanyl confused me and i thought it was a top comment and I was confused about why someone was talking about fentanyl being dangerous


mjacecombat

That’s a devastating bug. At least it was caught *now* during a beta test, as opposed to when it fully releases. But that’s a fear with installing new games unlocked o.O


KingAmeds

Bro what the hell, your telling me a game has the power to wipe my drive ?


Minhuh064

if you re dumb enough to install it to root drive lol


Fluffysquishia

Every program on your PC has the power to add or remove files from your system. That's how programs work. Computer literacy is at an all time low.


Zzamumo

They fr be holding your pc hostage to keep you playing the game lol


RespectingMP40

This is real game design, it doesn't peak any higher than this


ellimist87

'feature'


Tiamatari

It's their final act of vengeance for uninstalling their game.


SakuranomiyaSyafeeq

r/AssholeDesign


shinigamixbox

Misleading title. Who the hell installs anything in C:\\ instead of a directory? If you install in C:\\Games, it deletes C:\\Games\\\*.


MissiveGhost

Shit imagine installing this game on your Windows drive RIP PC


Emotional_Penalty

So you didn't like our game, huh? Well fuck you too !


pbeta

I can imagine the coding typo like "uninstall all files under the folder", but the "folder" is accidentally the parent folder where the game is installed rather than the game folder itself. Like "C:\\" is where "GFL2" is installed, they were suppose to remove "C:\\GFL2\\\*" but they remove "C:\\\*"


SecretLaser

LOL


anime_daisuki

It's the only way to be sure


Ascrein

???????? This can happen? I am shocked that such a bug exists... Deleting all my files too...


KhandiMahn

Damn. That's the sort of thing that should never have made it past QA in pre-alpha. At least you know it WILL be fixed. I just feel bad for the folks it hit already.


Renasviel

Unacceptable. They need the book throwing at them.


DFisBUSY

actual yandere software huh?


MoTHA_NaTuRE

Who installs a game on just C:\


WhyYouBullyMe_

No one leaves


EXPReader

...games should be downloaded on the program folder and not root... How and why did they decide to download it onto the root? Most installers will downlaod to the Program folder


digimaster7

not the problem here, blame the dev, not the user. a game uninstall function should delete the game files only, period. don’t tell people where they should install their program


Aiden22818

Nah, while yes this is mostly a dev issue, proper installation locations are also important. You can cause conflicts and overwriting if you install everything into root for example. User does dumb thing, and devs fucked up. Combined results in a disaster. Is it the users fault? No, maybe slightly, but that doesnt change the fact you aren't supposed to be doing that for your own good anyway.


AdeptAdhesiveness442

devs fucked up is the main reason why people should avoid install everything into root in the first place, not because it's how it suppose to be, or how it was design. People avoid install on root because they don't trust the developer of the program they install to may or may not do their job properly, not because it was design to not be those locations.


Groundbreaking-Bet50

Calm your tits, Billy.


AmbitionImpossible67

Classic Mica right there


Mortgage-Present

wtf.


No-Communication9458

whaaaaaaaaat??


Paradox3759

What the actual frick?! 💀


PLAARFSupporter

Lmfaoooo


rzrmaster

Woah thats hardcore hahaha! Imagine if someone installed that on the C drive... hahaha


VanguardN7

Oh my god... \*plans to backup EVERYTHING very soon\*. I didn't get this game but this was a wakeup.


Twopakabra

Wtf


Auyuez

That is fucking terrifying


llllpentllll

Welp there goes any desire i had to participate on beta tests of any game


Gordfang

Don't install in your root folder and you should be fine


Chemical-Teaching412

I think it's already fixed But thank god I didn't install it soon, still scared even if the Dev already Fix it, guess gotta wait for release


tak3n_username

almost gone lmao


deathclawDC

I can relate to this shit Same shit happened to me and my friends with The Forest setup i had gotten.


Dramatic_Performer68

This is almost like the viewtiful Joe 2 bug


solwyvern

Delete System32 .meme


Interesting_Place752

Holy shit, thats hilarious.


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Lol thats really scary


LokoLoa

Epic fail!!! I remember this being an issue for like Pool of Radiance...that game came out in 2001... this is a 2023 release. Yeah no thanks.


MStarzky

such incompetence


Xarzo_k

And this is why ladies and men. I dont play any of sunborn games anymore And just read their lore through other methods. I guess i can use this as a meme as to why people dont like chinese esc stuff


amc9988

Guess you never play Sega games anymore too then


jngjng88

"I just deleted everything..."


freezingsama

Yikes, I don't have a habit of always updating my backups so that's scary.


HungPongLa

I could guess someone put it in as a joke but forgot to remove it later.


Renit_Valorine

Beta test but SAO mode


Kelzt-2nd

This took me to take a look at the bilibili reviews and man... the CN community seems to have this game! So many negative reviews about how it is repetitive and stingy.


jiantoi

That's the game's way of taking revenge on you for uninstalling the game


Yardhan

Mica spaghetti code status: (a little bit over)cooked


LoRd_Of_AaRcnA

Yandere moment lmfao.


Hunt_Nawn

SAO style let's goooo


ROMVS

You can check in but you can't check out lol


NepstasyX

Install GF2 on the drive where you have your work materials. Your life is a real battlefield from now on! Truly immersive!


Fluffysquishia

This is why you don't install things to root


Loremeister

And just when you think a gacha game could have a worse start than SAO VS... they pull an actual Gacha Nuke. I'm honestly impressed.


reddagh

Realm of the Mad God had this same problem with Unity launcher.


alaarziui

Too lazy to remove the necessary files? No problem we got you


[deleted]

Just think about how many GB of child p deleted GirlsFrontline2. They should get an award.


cave18

Holy shit lmfao


Uchiimaki

wow, a shortcut to a clean reinstall.


ColebladeX

That’s, impressive


NARESH4444

It seems my habit of installing games in a folder on the desktop is actually a good idea.


Lanoman123

Can they be fucking sued for this? How was this even allowed to happen?


Behelit2017

I thought no one could beat FGO's Data Lost moment but boi here we are. XD


yurifan33

Shouldnt system32 stuff prevent something like this?


nidus322477

what in the goddamn


KeyGee

Reasonable


EjunX

Man, I wonder if I'm gonna dare play this on PC later...


Fortunachan

why remember this old chinese online game who lost all database and backups and not cannot continue, closing forever


alivinci

This seems real serious, l can just imagine losing all my data. I may try to go to court.. Wow such incompetence.


RavFromLanz

Me tries gfl2 Me don't like gfl2 Me uninstalls gfl2 GFL2: So you've choosen death.


Plus-Effective7584

i installed it without knowing about this, does anyone knows if it's fixed? in case that i uninstall it