Fan outcry pushes Pathfinder dev to delete new data-sucking tool and all its info one day after introducing it: 'The scale of the outburst surpassed worst expectations'
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A patch to Wrath of the Righteous introduced a 3rd-party analytics tool and a new EULA, but fans were having none of it.
  • _pete_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    261·
    1 year ago

    Well, it’s pretty shitty that they introduced it in the first place, but this is a great way to respond.

    Tbh, I could see a case where a new marketing exec asked for it to be added and the dev team hated the idea so had a rollback plan ready to go in case things went south.

  • Cypher@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    1 year ago

    I am rather unimpressed that they were so comfortable over reaching on people’s personal data after I backed them in early development and have my name in the game.

    I won’t be doing that again despite their quick back down.

  • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
    18·
    1 year ago

    described by Owlcat as “an industry standard tracking solution” that “allows developers and publishers to understand which part of players have purchased the game due to the impact of their advertising campaigns”.

    Yeah, fuck right off.

    If you’re collecting literally just gameplay data without people opting in that’s already a breach of the user’s privacy. Fingerprinting to connect them with ads is disgusting.