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Be careful when installing Dominion Online
« on: November 08, 2015, 02:51:57 pm »
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From the MF forums:

Quote from: Idan Zeierman;42147
Pardon my french, but really, WTF.

So, I've uninstalled the game and downloaded the new version (2.0.44.2) (speaking of which - when are you going to upgrade to the wonderful world of Automatic Updates?). It asked me for the install location. I wrote, as usual for the last few installs (really, when ARE you going to support automatic updates?) "D:\Games". It usually adds "\Dominion" to the path. I pressed "Enter", Next-Next-Next, and moved away from the computer.

I came back several minutes later to find the installer still hard at work. Wondering what's taking so long, I've checked the installer window, and saw that it was removing files at "D:\Games\Steam\...\left 4 dead 2\...". I clicked "Cancel" in panic.

The installer removed most of the contents of my D:\Games folder.


Putting aside the damage to my games (most of them support cloud saves, but I had several GOG games and several Steam games which simply do not) - seriously - how on earth do you abuse administrator privileges like that?! I'm now not only expected to manually upgrade after each small update - but also babysit to make sure I didn't write something wrong and end up removing the contents of my "Program Files" folder?!

The saddest thing is that I'm not even surprised.
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Re: Be careful when installing Dominion Online
« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2015, 03:48:29 pm »
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Well, you should be careful when installing everything.
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Re: Be careful when installing Dominion Online
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2015, 04:00:05 pm »
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Except when installing Dominion Online; it makes sure you no longer have to care about anything else.
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Re: Be careful when installing Dominion Online
« Reply #3 on: November 08, 2015, 04:07:00 pm »
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Re: Be careful when installing Dominion Online
« Reply #4 on: November 08, 2015, 04:08:17 pm »
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hopefully no one accidentally points the Dominion Online installer at C:\Windows\System32

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Re: Be careful when installing Dominion Online
« Reply #5 on: November 08, 2015, 04:09:35 pm »
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hopefully no one accidentally points the Dominion Online installer at C:\Windows\System32

or C:\
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Re: Be careful when installing Dominion Online
« Reply #6 on: November 08, 2015, 04:16:58 pm »
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I hope Steam don't see that. I doubt they want to list a game that deletes all their products.
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Re: Be careful when installing Dominion Online
« Reply #7 on: November 08, 2015, 04:32:17 pm »
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Holy shit.  That's just... holy shit man.
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Re: Be careful when installing Dominion Online
« Reply #8 on: November 08, 2015, 05:20:38 pm »
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I don't know what to say..
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Re: Be careful when installing Dominion Online
« Reply #9 on: November 08, 2015, 05:49:08 pm »
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Seriously, who thought we'd be sad to see Goko die?
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Re: Be careful when installing Dominion Online
« Reply #10 on: November 08, 2015, 05:54:31 pm »
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That's definitely a very literal implementation of Mint.  :o

(this sucks badly)
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Re: Be careful when installing Dominion Online
« Reply #11 on: November 08, 2015, 05:57:03 pm »
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That's definitely a very literal implementation of Mint.  :o

Why did you implement it that way then?
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Re: Be careful when installing Dominion Online
« Reply #12 on: November 08, 2015, 06:00:05 pm »
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That's definitely a very literal implementation of Mint.  :o

Why did you implement it that way then?

Oh, you know, I just wanted to delete the old version to give you the updated one, like, right into your hands, but then I got confused...
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Re: Be careful when installing Dominion Online
« Reply #13 on: November 08, 2015, 06:34:19 pm »
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This is pretty awful.
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Re: Be careful when installing Dominion Online
« Reply #14 on: November 08, 2015, 07:06:38 pm »
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They should at least shut off your ability to specificy the directory you want to install dominion to?
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Re: Be careful when installing Dominion Online
« Reply #15 on: November 09, 2015, 05:46:21 am »
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The horror!

Oh man, I feel for you. I would feel terrible if my Broken Age save game was deleted, even if I'm only like 2 hours into act 2.
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Re: Be careful when installing Dominion Online
« Reply #16 on: November 09, 2015, 06:45:09 am »
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They should at least shut off your ability to specificy the directory you want to install dominion to?
Or maybe just check what they're deleting before they delete it?
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Re: Be careful when installing Dominion Online
« Reply #17 on: November 09, 2015, 11:47:13 am »
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They should at least shut off your ability to specificy the directory you want to install dominion to?
Or maybe just check what they're deleting before they delete it?

Or just... not delete things at all that aren't already Dominion files?
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Re: Be careful when installing Dominion Online
« Reply #18 on: November 09, 2015, 11:52:40 am »
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They should at least shut off your ability to specificy the directory you want to install dominion to?
Or maybe just check what they're deleting before they delete it?

Or just... not delete things at all that aren't already Dominion files?

That's what I said.  ;)
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Re: Be careful when installing Dominion Online
« Reply #19 on: November 09, 2015, 11:56:23 am »
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From the MF forums:

Quote from: Idan Zeierman;42147
Pardon my french, but really, WTF.

So, I've uninstalled the game and downloaded the new version (2.0.44.2) (speaking of which - when are you going to upgrade to the wonderful world of Automatic Updates?). It asked me for the install location. I wrote, as usual for the last few installs (really, when ARE you going to support automatic updates?) "D:\Games". It usually adds "\Dominion" to the path. I pressed "Enter", Next-Next-Next, and moved away from the computer.

I came back several minutes later to find the installer still hard at work. Wondering what's taking so long, I've checked the installer window, and saw that it was removing files at "D:\Games\Steam\...\left 4 dead 2\...". I clicked "Cancel" in panic.

The installer removed most of the contents of my D:\Games folder.


Putting aside the damage to my games (most of them support cloud saves, but I had several GOG games and several Steam games which simply do not) - seriously - how on earth do you abuse administrator privileges like that?! I'm now not only expected to manually upgrade after each small update - but also babysit to make sure I didn't write something wrong and end up removing the contents of my "Program Files" folder?!

The saddest thing is that I'm not even surprised.

I think the saddest thing is that there is no response yet from Making Fun.
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Re: Be careful when installing Dominion Online
« Reply #20 on: November 09, 2015, 12:01:43 pm »
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Certainly an updater should overwrite updated files, and maybe delete files that were removed from the program in the update.  An Installer should just copy the files to the target.  Running 'rm -rf *' on the directory you are writing to first is just...

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Re: Be careful when installing Dominion Online
« Reply #21 on: November 09, 2015, 01:41:05 pm »
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Until now there was probably a 5-10% chance that I was going to someday install the new client to play a few games of Dominion once in a while. Now it's around .00001% chance. Not 0, because maybe someone will report a bug where upon installing, the installer transfers a bunch of money into your bank account by accident.
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Re: Be careful when installing Dominion Online
« Reply #22 on: November 09, 2015, 01:53:24 pm »
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They should at least shut off your ability to specificy the directory you want to install dominion to?
Or maybe just check what they're deleting before they delete it?
Yeah.  My suggestion was even easier than that, though.  Trying to assume minimal ability from the devs.
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Re: Be careful when installing Dominion Online
« Reply #23 on: November 09, 2015, 01:54:01 pm »
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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.
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Re: Be careful when installing Dominion Online
« Reply #24 on: November 09, 2015, 01:56:05 pm »
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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!
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