Community Manager
@EA_Leeuw wrote:
Hey @Herdosratos,
Battlefield 2042 is designed to use the Documents folder for its settings etc. It's not something that can be 'fixed', because it is not something that is broken. Battlefield 2042 is also not the only game that uses the Documents folder for things like these.
However, the feedback has been passed on to the teams.
I didn't see anyone say that saving game/cache data to the "C:\user\My Documents" folder is a bug, what we're saying is that it is an issue. It may be a design choice, but it is an issue. Designing a game to save data to a location other than the install disk and to a location that is synced to OneDrive by default, (and often well before your game is installed) is clearly a difficulty that players are dealing with. Leading your official response with "it is not something that is broken" doesn't fill us with confidence that we are being heard.
I have no idea what the development timeline on Battlefield 2042 is/was like, but Windows, an operating system that EA designs games for, has been syncing users' "My Documents" folder to OneDrive since October 2013. Developing a game that doesn't take this into account is an issue for your players.
None of this is meant as an attack on you @EA_Leeuw . Genuinely, thank you for interfacing with the community and thank you for forwarding our feedback to the game teams. I do appreciate that it is difficult and certainly frustrating sometimes (and I'm sure rewarding as well!) to directly interface with game communities.
