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[Witherweaver]

Also, I find it a bit funny now that some people expressed concern over installing unknown third party software like Salvager or MAKiNG MORE FUN because of possible unknown effects or damage to their system.

Well to be fair, SCSN just hasn't gotten around to revealing his nefarious plans yet. Just wait!

MAKiNG MORE FUN goes through your all subdirectories of your root directory and replaces all directory and file names with a random-capitalized version. 

[Cave-o-sapien]

Also, I find it a bit funny now that some people expressed concern over installing unknown third party software like Salvager or MAKiNG MORE FUN because of possible unknown effects or damage to their system.

Well to be fair, SCSN just hasn't gotten around to revealing his nefarious plans yet. Just wait!

MAKiNG MORE FUN goes through your all subdirectories of your root directory and replaces all directory and file names with a random-capitalized version.

This is a great feature!

[SCSN]

Also, I find it a bit funny now that some people expressed concern over installing unknown third party software like Salvager or MAKiNG MORE FUN because of possible unknown effects or damage to their system.

Well to be fair, SCSN just hasn't gotten around to revealing his nefarious plans yet. Just wait!

Confession time: the whole Blitz thing is just a Trojan Horse to get Mic to install my kill switch. From soon onwards, whenever you play him all you have to do is type #killmic into the chat and the man will never win another game.

And the best part is that he'll think I'm joking and install it anyway.

[Deadlock39]

#jedimindtrick you would like to resign now

[Mic Qsenoch]

Also, I find it a bit funny now that some people expressed concern over installing unknown third party software like Salvager or MAKiNG MORE FUN because of possible unknown effects or damage to their system.

Well to be fair, SCSN just hasn't gotten around to revealing his nefarious plans yet. Just wait!

Confession time: the whole Blitz thing is just a Trojan Horse to get Mic to install my kill switch. From soon onwards, whenever you play him all you have to do is type #killmic into the chat and the man will never win another game.

And the best part is that he'll think I'm joking and install it anyway.

I won't consider the mod feature complete until it literally kills me.

[Roadrunner7671]

If Goko goes down, I'm going down with it.
😭🔫

[XerxesPraelor]

The developers' response: "As a way to ensure that the installation is a clean one the installer removes the contents of the install directory before writing the new ones."

I am beginning to not take them very seriously.

[Beyond Awesome]

If Goko goes down, I'm going down with it.
😭🔫

Well, that has already happened.

[Roadrunner7671]

If Goko goes down, I'm going down with it.
😭🔫

Well, that has already happened.

😲💥🔫

[Cave-o-sapien]

The developers' response: "As a way to ensure that the installation is a clean one the installer removes the contents of the install directory before writing the new ones."

Where's the bang-head-against-wall emoticon?

[Kirian]

The developers' response: "As a way to ensure that the installation is a clean one the installer removes the contents of the install directory before writing the new ones."

I am beginning to not take them very seriously.

Beginning?

[popsofctown]

The developers' response: "As a way to ensure that the installation is a clean one the installer removes the contents of the install directory before writing the new ones."

I am beginning to not take them very seriously.

LOLOLOLOL

You have to laugh to keep from crying.

[Kirian]

[Donald X.]

The developers' response: "As a way to ensure that the installation is a clean one the installer removes the contents of the install directory before writing the new ones."

I am beginning to not take them very seriously.

This is very misleading! What was actually posted was Travis saying:

I saw the dev response to Dave's urgent email, so I'll relay the message. From the devs:
As a way to ensure that the installation is a clean one the installer removes the contents of the install directory before writing the new ones.
So, since you tried to put the file directly in the 'games' folder, it was working on cleaning everything out. I'm glad you caught it before any real damage was done. The team has disabled this clean-out "feature" in Unity. We'll have to see how that affects future updates. If only we had an automatic updater, right...?

By taking that one line out of context, you dodge the annoying reality of Travis acknowledging that this was an urgent problem, and a problem they're fixing.

Travis also quoted a line out of context. You don't know what the rest of what these "devs" had to say was. They were, after all, not talking to customers.

I mean really guys. Focus your anger on real things, not imagined detachment. We already knew they were deleting the files, and that quote doesn't say anything new or interesting.

[Kirian]

The developers' response: "As a way to ensure that the installation is a clean one the installer removes the contents of the install directory before writing the new ones."

I am beginning to not take them very seriously.

This is very misleading! What was actually posted was Travis saying:

I saw the dev response to Dave's urgent email, so I'll relay the message. From the devs:
As a way to ensure that the installation is a clean one the installer removes the contents of the install directory before writing the new ones.
So, since you tried to put the file directly in the 'games' folder, it was working on cleaning everything out. I'm glad you caught it before any real damage was done. The team has disabled this clean-out "feature" in Unity. We'll have to see how that affects future updates. If only we had an automatic updater, right...?

By taking that one line out of context, you dodge the annoying reality of Travis acknowledging that this was an urgent problem, and a problem they're fixing.

Travis also quoted a line out of context. You don't know what the rest of what these "devs" had to say was. They were, after all, not talking to customers.

I mean really guys. Focus your anger on real things, not imagined detachment. We already knew they were deleting the files, and that quote doesn't say anything new or interesting.

Oh man, a retroactive -1 for XP.

I'm still not having much difficulty not taking MF seriously, though.

[XerxesPraelor]

I'm not really sure that context shows him acknowledging it was a problem: the closest I can see is "I'm glad you caught it before any real damage was done." but that doesn't seem like a very explicit acknowledgment.

David's response below that one is definitely good though:

Jeff has addressed the automatic update in another thread. It's in his main list of priorities, though I don't know an exact date. And apologies for the stress and the fright of losing that much game data. They are making a change with this.

[Titandrake]

I'm not really sure that context shows him acknowledging it was a problem: the closest I can see is "I'm glad you caught it before any real damage was done." but that doesn't seem like a very explicit acknowledgment.

In context, the dev is explaining why the installer acted the way it did, and emphasizes this is obviously super terrible and they're working on it. They aren't saying it explicitly, but it's definitely implied.

Out of context, the dev is stating what the installer does, with no hint that the dev knows why this might be a bad idea.

[Cave-o-sapien]

The developers' response: "As a way to ensure that the installation is a clean one the installer removes the contents of the install directory before writing the new ones."

I am beginning to not take them very seriously.

This is very misleading! What was actually posted was Travis saying:

I saw the dev response to Dave's urgent email, so I'll relay the message. From the devs:
As a way to ensure that the installation is a clean one the installer removes the contents of the install directory before writing the new ones.
So, since you tried to put the file directly in the 'games' folder, it was working on cleaning everything out. I'm glad you caught it before any real damage was done. The team has disabled this clean-out "feature" in Unity. We'll have to see how that affects future updates. If only we had an automatic updater, right...?

By taking that one line out of context, you dodge the annoying reality of Travis acknowledging that this was an urgent problem, and a problem they're fixing.

Travis also quoted a line out of context. You don't know what the rest of what these "devs" had to say was. They were, after all, not talking to customers.

I mean really guys. Focus your anger on real things, not imagined detachment. We already knew they were deleting the files, and that quote doesn't say anything new or interesting.

I actually went to the MF forum and read the full response before posting anything here. I don't feel like this quote was taken egregiously out of context.

While he didn't quote the MF Forum staff person, he quoted the developer in full. And I think the developer's response is pretty bad, not because of what it says, but what it doesn't say: it just restates the (obvious) problem. You're right that lack of developer context is bad here, but I guess that's on Travis as much as anyone here. He kinda throws the dev under the bus.

Anyway, here's the reproduced nested quotes:

I saw the dev response to Dave's urgent email, so I'll relay the message. From the devs:

As a way to ensure that the installation is a clean one the installer removes the contents of the install directory before writing the new ones.

So, since you tried to put the file directly in the 'games' folder, it was working on cleaning everything out. I'm glad you caught it before any real damage was done. The team has disabled this clean-out "feature" in Unity. We'll have to see how that affects future updates. If only we had an automatic updater, right...?