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• BlindFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Precise location information? Wtf for?

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  • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Oh ho!ey, what’s any of it for?

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  • Lemjukes@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Hyper Localized Advertising. Welcome back o the future :(

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    • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I just saw an advertisement for a custom T-shirt:
      “That’s right, I’m a December dad, who lives at 62a, with size 10 feet and prescription glasses…”

      /S

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      • BlindFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        “By scrolling past, you agree to sharing with us (and our affiliates) the following collected data types: …”

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  • NIB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They use the same terms of service for mobile games and they just dont bother to change it for pc games.

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    • BlindFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      This mistake makes sense to make as a mistake. But also, that’s fuckin asinine

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      • QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It isn’t a mistake. Writing different EULA for each game costs more money than writing an overly aggressive one that covers most cases.

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  • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So that they can have a back door to as many private computers as possible.

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• pulsewidth@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Would it shock you to know that ALL of these are in the Steam terms of service also?

  The only really sus one to me is the forced arbitration clause, and Steam also had that til they were pressured to remove it by multiple legal cases, including a class action brought to them by Steam user just last September. It is only sus because it’s outdated - companies are generally removing them now rather than adding them. legal.io/…/Valve-Removes-Mandatory-Arbitration-fr…

  RE: remaining top 5 bullet points, 3 of the remaining 4 bullet points are uncontroversial bullet points about anticheat. The fourth is banning modding, which is also just a heavy handed anticheat attempt, and not uncommon for online games to add to their ToS to allow banning at their discretion. Either way its clumsy at the least as some mods can be harmless eg HUD mods for colourblind people and deserves some negativity - but not to this level, given everything else is just so boilerplate.

  Collected data types: these are all for if you buy stuff with a credit card / paypal / etc off 2k/parent company Take 2. Remember, they sell games with in-game purchases. They also have an app which has location permissions option which is what the precise location is about.

  So yes - again, as OP said, this is nothing controversial if you have paid attention to ToS meaning and content over the past 20 years.

  Aside from the forced arbitration crap - which Steam, Microsoft, Amazon, Lyft, Uber, Google, AT&T - and hundreds of other major companies all snuck into their ToS over the years, and many have now been legally pressured to remove by consumer rights group. That is stupid because it shows their legal team is behind the times, companies are mostly removing their forced arbitration clauses nowadays because it has been the cause of many lost class actions.

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• Lemjukes@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  A bit more than what? I’ll say it again, if you think this is anything new you haven’t been paying attention. I’m all for calling this fuckery out and pushing for something better. But like where yall been?

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  • emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What point are you trying to make? You say you’re “all for calling this kind of fuckery out” but then you’re criticizing people for calling it out? And who cares what other EULAs might say? The point is that the license agreement for this game and others owned by this company didn’t say this shit before, and now they do. The company is actively making their user agreement more hostile to the users which is what people are pissed about.

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    • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      The point is that the license agreement for this game and others owned by this company didn’t say this shit before, and now they do.

      That’s just not true.

      Here’s a Reddit user trying the same kind out outrage farming 7 years ago using Take 2’s TOS and implying it allows spyware: www.reddit.com/…/take_two_a_spyware_apocalypse/

      If you look at Valve’s TOS or any other game developer who has games with an online component, you will see the exact same language regarding data collection. The language being added is to comply with laws, like the GDPR, which requires specific language indicating what data is collected and how it is used.

      The data that is being collected is the same as it was 10 years ago. There’s nothing new here, just a YT video that got a lot of views and social media being full of people who don’t fact check anything.

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    • Lemjukes@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That it takes more critical thinking to accomplish the organized action needed for real change than leaving a bunch of negative reviews.

      I never once said ‘other company’s do it so just deal with it.’ Fuckawhataboutism. I said “if you think this is new, you haven’t been paying attention.” What I shouldn’t have left unsaid was ‘the review is a nice start and show of intention. but we need a lot more dedicated, well organized action, to actually accomplish a change.’

      But people read into things what they want to hear.

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  • MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Let’s ride the wave. Turn this into a huge controversy known industry-wide. Then, next game that comes out with EULA like this, we say “THIS GAME HAS A BORDERLANDS-STYLE EULA”. Pretend it’s new to exploit the shock value and get the gamers riled up. Then, the industry gets better.

    Tell the frog that the pot wasn’t always this hot.

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    • Lemjukes@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Thank you for an actually constructive response. You’ve honestly brought me around a bit with this.

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  • Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I see this kind of comment before and I will never understand it - “other companies do it so just bend over and let us do it to you too!”

    People say this all the time about Denuvo too: “Other games already have Denuvo, why are you crying about it here when you’re playing other games?”

    And see, that’s the problem - we aren’t playing those other Denuvo games. And same thing applies here, guess what, a lot of us aren’t buying games from gross companies like EA with these shit terms. So when a company we are doing business with suddenly changes their terms to be shit, that’s a valid complaint. Some of us have already been boycotting bad business practices in the industry, so the idea of company changing terms towards the boycott after we’ve already invested in the game feels like a betrayal because it is.

    So maybe stop focusing on what you assume the rest of audience is doing and instead go back to focusing on what the people at the goddamn podium are trying to pull?

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    • Lemjukes@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Why does everyone insist on adding the ‘so just bend over and take’ part whenever someone points out another source of wrongdoing? Like what do yall always take it to mean that the speaker is implying a whataboutism argument? And not maybe as ‘oh shit this has been going on longer than just this maybe we should learn about that too and we might figure out why it hasn’t been stopped yet.’

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      • Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        If “everyone” keeps reading a sentiment you did not intend out of your message, perhaps it is time to consider that you are doing a poor job of communicating your point.

        Or you’re being disingenuous and just don’t like being calling on your hissy fit.

        I dunno, take your pick.

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  • Don_alForno@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Some people will always find an excuse to change nothing.

    It doesn’t matter how many similar EULA’s people have already accepted. The best moment to not eat it anymore would have been the first time it happened, the second best time is right now.

    Also, retroactively amending an EULA is a different quality, since people have already paid for the game and would be looked out after the fact if they didn’t accept.

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    • Lemjukes@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m sad you read this as an admission of defeat and an attempt to deter others from fighting. Was hoping for more of a ‘you’re late, you have a bunch of homework to catch up on’ vibe but I’m not great at communicating all the time.

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      • Cataphract@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It seems like you’re giving of a “victim” vibe with this by stating you wished for only a particular type of “positive response” when you’ve posted a misleading comment and doubled-down with “EULAs half the people in this thread have already clicked thru” which you have no way of knowing.

        Were all Take Two games automatically updated in secret and now hijack your machine with root access to spy on everything you do? ❌

        10.2. Updates, Modifications, and Sunset. We may provide patches, updates, or upgrades to the Services, Virtual Items, Content, or your Account that may be required for you to continue using the Services, including automatic or “in the background” updates without notice to you.

        “Was hoping for more of a ‘you’re late, you have a bunch of homework to catch up on’” You’re expecting others to hold your hand and inform you of every event or action taken by every company. I guess I’ll do my part since I have been trying to let other people know for a while now,

        StormGate - Privacy Policy and End User Agreement. Is this just the new industry standard to avoid? (post made by me 10 months ago)

        Why don’t you see it more?

        Steam Discussion deleted after questioning the “EULA” of Stormgate, another post by me after I tried to inform others and was suppressed, meaning the reviews is the only course of action that most have at their disposal. Even posting on their official subreddit did no good with the exact same type of response you’ve presented here,

        Why am I consenting to have my “Medical Information”, “Browser/Search History”, “Social Security/Drivers License number”, “Geolocation and movements”, and more collected to play Stormgate? (22k members, only 122 upvotes)

        (the responses)

        • They didn’t collect such information (they technically couldn’t), they are giving examples of such types of personally identifiable information.
        • Yeah, it’s excessive, they don’t need half of this. However, writing it this way makes it near impossible for them to screw up by accident. If you play games, you probably agreed to a handful of ELUA’s like that by now.
        • This keeps getting brought up in every controversial game these days and the answer is always the same: They aren’t.
        • Most of this is not out of the ordinary.
        • Imagine thinking all of this information about you isn’t already owned by several corporations lol.
        • Some of these stuffs are required in X countries not yours, stop thinking the entire world is all about you buddy.

        You’ve officially become part of the problem and an ally to the very same reason why we can’t “accomplish the organized action needed for real change (than leaving a bunch of negative reviews.)”

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  • Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If more folks are waking up and shaking a stick at it or doing something but blindly click through (thus legally unenforceable) EULAs I’m all for it.

    Better late than never.

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    • Lemjukes@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I get that and agree, this is just a crappy and kinda dumb stick to be wasting the energy on because it makes the side opposing the injustice look like petulant children instead of enabling effective action.

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  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t click thru any EULAs. I see bad EULA - I pirate. Then if it makes any network traffic i just block that shit.

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    • Lemjukes@lemm.ee ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      yo ho

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