[Sardtok]

Always... Except for the decades before this became common. Never a bloated C: root directory. Microsoft even had games store stuff in My Documents\Games at one point. My Documents was a user dir that saw a lot of abuse over the years.

[SAI_Peregrinus]

They still have that, it's just `My Documents\My Games` now. And Visual Studio makes a folder in My Documents for every annual release. And…

[ComputerGuru]

Yes, as in there’s no reason Linux can’t clean up its game the same way.