Why do games have weird file names? [closed]

Question

Many games I have seen have weird names for the actual game exe. There's the launcher/updater, then the actual game program is called something totally random. For example, Flyff has the name Neuz.exe, and The Hobbit has the name Meridian.exe. Does anybody know the reason for these random names, and how they are picked? Should I do the same for my future games?

Answer 1

Flyff appears to be a Japanese made game. Nuez might mean something in Japanese.

After a quick search, meridian appears to be a copy protection program that launches the game. It appears other games out there use meridian.exe.

So if you are writing games, it would still be best to call the executables something reasonable, like myawesomegamethatimgivingtoeveryoneonsuperuserforfree.exe.