Why does uninstalling steam uninstall ALL THE GAMES.

[SirSchmoopy]

It wouldn't load. I tried everything to just get my Steam to come up so I wouldn't have to bypass it to play a game, finally I said screw it and just tried to reinstall it.

Wouldn't you know though it went and removed ALL THE GAMES THAT WERE INSTALLED WITH IT. Save files? Poof.


Just not my day man. Just not my day.

 

[megapenguinx]

My guess is because all the games are tied to steam? No clue really, I've never had to uninstall steam before.

 

[Ultrajoe]

It's an anti-piracy thing, probably, as is most everything nowdays. That said, as long as you have the steam ID you can always download them again.

Unless that would make your bandwidth weep blood. I feel for you, I recently lost my installed copy of Freelancer, and without a disc I can never again engage in gripping and awesome space dogfights... with 100 men on each side. God I love that game.

 

[Dogmeat T Dingo]

Damn, sorry bout the save files. It happens to the best of us.

Yeah, it's just how Steam works. If you look at your Steam folders you won't find the games themselves, heck even the .exe files aren't there, just a bunch of resource files that all go through Steam. When you have a game on there like Oblivion or Fallout 3 that uses mods, it will have you put them in your My Games folder, near My Documents. The best advice I can give is to find out where the save files are (usually in the My Games folder) and copy them before you mess with Steam next time.

 

[APPCRASH]

That'll teach you to uninstall steam.

 

[Balgus]

i think to browse steam files you have to use GFscapeor something wird like that... ive only use it for gmod and not all that sucessfully

 

[SenseOfTumour]

I like Steam but I do wish they'd either give us a small piece of server space so we can store our saves online, or just let all saves end up in My Documents so they're easily backed up.

Of course, I've done no research in this, so it may an easily fixed issue already.