EA Data Logging - Ambitions & Patch
Buzzler:
Seems like the typical MATY user isn't a bit more informed than the users of the sheeple forums. The typical MATY user is more adept in spreading FUD, though.
EA and basically every publisher out there are spying on you for years now without asking for permission. Virtually every game executable will collect data and send it home. If you let it. If you let the TS3 executable or the launcher connect to the internet, the EA folks almost definitely already know if you use an arred game by the serial. They probably know if you use arred store content, too.
Logging your gameplay and asking for permission to do so is absolutely harmless. All they want to know, is what features are used the most/least for future development.
IAmTheRad:
The main issue is what EA is calling back home for.
Steam, on the other hand, while it does 'call home', they tell you what they actually collect.
jezzer:
Quote from: Drakron on 2010 June 02, 13:52:41
Not exactly.
Microsoft banned modded Xbox 360 from Live and only the machines themselves as the accounts still work, just the console is banned from Live.
They cannot shut down the console (doing so would create a dangerous precedent) but they can ban then from using services (TOS) and as for the warranty, that is pretty standard as if you modify the machine then the manufacturer cannot be held responsible for it.
Ah. I didn't mod mine, but I had several friends who did, and they just said they couldn't play it any more. I didn't realize they were talking exclusively about online play.
Sigmund:
Quote from: Buzzler on 2010 June 02, 15:19:00
EA and basically every publisher out there are spying on you for years now without asking for permission. Virtually every game executable will collect data and send it home. If you let it. If you let the TS3 executable or the launcher connect to the internet, the EA folks almost definitely already know if you use an arred game by the serial. They probably know if you use arred store content, too.
Most MATYians know to block TS3 (legit or not) from accessing the internet, which has always been Pescado's official advice. The issue is not so much the fact that they're doing something nefarious-- this is the same company that shipped out their games with Securom, anybody who trusts them is an idiot. I think the issue is more why they are doing it, and what, exactly, it is they're collecting.
saraswati:
Quote from: Drakron on 2010 June 02, 13:40:07
Quote from: Tingeling on 2010 June 02, 04:18:34
So, it is basically Securom only semi-visible?
No, SecuROM is modular and at base its just a normal "disk check" but it can have online activation and also restriction on the number of activations (meaning the number of times it can be installed).
Drakron, it doesn't have any of the SecuROM files with the disk version, I've checked the registry numerous times. They're also required to disclose SecuROM up front these days, it's part of the legal settlement they made with the class action.
I'd love a bit more information on what they intend to collect. Does anyone have a link to where this was discussed before the EP was launched?
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