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correction on installer behavior; nothing changed in the installer from v1.0 to v1.3, just the uninstaller
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==Uninstaller bug== | ==Uninstaller bug== | ||
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Myth II has some historical notoriety for its colossal uninstaller bug. Though it was fixed before the game released to the general public, the uninstaller was originally scripted to recursively remove all files in the same directory as itself. This meant that if you placed the game files at the root level of a hard drive (not inside C:\MythII\ but C:\ itself), your entire hard drive would be deleted along with the game. | Myth II has some historical notoriety for its colossal uninstaller bug. Though it was fixed before the game released to the general public, the uninstaller was originally scripted to recursively remove all files in the same directory as itself. This meant that if you placed the game files at the root level of a hard drive (not inside C:\MythII\ but C:\ itself), your entire hard drive would be deleted along with the game. | ||
You might wonder why someone would ever place the game's files on their hard drive without any enclosing folder, but the | You might wonder why someone would ever place the game's files on their hard drive without any enclosing folder, but the installer made this easy to do. If you chose a custom install location for Myth II and then simply clicked on "c:\" in the Browse dialog, the files would not be placed inside a MythII folder but directly under C:\ (this appears to be a common installer behavior in Windows). Thus, with the game directory being C:\, the uninstaller's recursive deletion would run from C:\ as well. | ||
The bug was discovered when this happened to a Japanese localizer at the end of the game's development. Bungie decided to stop production on the game, tear open the game boxes on the assembly line, and replace the game discs. This cost the company approximately $800,000, a difficult financial blow for a small game studio, and was a key factor in deciding to sell Bungie to another company. | The bug was discovered when this happened to a Japanese localizer at the end of the game's development. Bungie decided to stop production on the game, tear open the game boxes on the assembly line, and replace the game discs. This cost the company approximately $800,000, a difficult financial blow for a small game studio, and was a key factor in deciding to sell Bungie to another company. | ||