SE5 bad reviews and problems.

Jeku · #1 November 3rd, 2006, 12:38 AM

"What you describe is spyware; software that logs users online behavior &c."

Um, I didn't say it logs user's online behaviour. I said it *doesn't* do that. It simply sends your IP address one time when you first start the game, which is destroyed immediately.

The in-game ads is a different issue altogether, but I just wanted to make clear that this is neither adware nor spyware, especially as they are upfront with it in the first place with the leaflet inside the game box.

Atrocities · #2 November 3rd, 2006, 12:54 AM

The last thing I want to see when I am playing a game is an adverstisement for SHRAPNEL GAMES, popping up on some build board in the game. (No offense Shrap, but your site is like the only site I regularly visit so... it would be the site that might pop up.)

They are doing this because it is what google and now AOL do with email and web searches. YOu get an email message from someone asking you about say the Star Trek Mod and on the side I get all these advertisement about Star Trek.. WTF! If I want to search for something like that I will do it on my own. I hate the fact that my email, and now my games, are being data mined in order to force feed me advertisment. If that is the way things are going, kinda like paid tv has gone, then I WANT TO BE PAID to play!

Suicide Junkie · #3 November 3rd, 2006, 02:16 AM

Note:
Just because they admit it is adware dosen't make it not adware.

Jeku · #4 November 3rd, 2006, 04:55 AM

"No offense Shrap, but your site is like the only site I regularly visit so... it would be the site that might pop up."

It's like I'm talking to a wall. I said it *doesn't* log the sites you visit. How many times can I say the same thing over and over again

Fyron · #5 November 3rd, 2006, 04:59 AM

Do you have verifiable source of evidence, or is that an anti-rumor rumor?

Even if it doesn't track sites you visit, it is still a despicable practice (ad banners in products you explicitly paid for).

Suicide Junkie · #6 November 3rd, 2006, 05:42 PM

Tracking sites you visit has no bearing on whether it is adware or not. It is the simple fact of having Ads built in.

Ads + software = Adware

Atrocities · #7 November 3rd, 2006, 06:48 PM

Quote:

Suicide Junkie said:
Tracking sites you visit has no bearing on whether it is adware or not. It is the simple fact of having Ads built in.

Ads + software = Adware

You know we really need to point out that most of what we do now is tracked in one form or another from cell phone carriers to the GPS system in your car. That data is tracked, monitored, and sold. The cell phone industry tracks your colling paterns, cell sites signals to track your movements, and times of day or night that your phone is on and used. They then sell this info to ad companies who then stratigicially place bill boards in those high traffic routes and know when to call you on your phone for sales oppurtunities.

The GPS in your car is also used for the same thing. On Star was recently critizied for this. Cannot find the article or web site but I do recall hearing about it on the news a few months back.

Yimboli · #8 November 3rd, 2006, 10:55 PM

Correct AT. I recall discussing this in an electronic navigation class in undergrad. If I find that stuff I'll post a link ...

Atrocities · #9 November 3rd, 2006, 06:44 PM

Quote:

Jeku said:
"No offense Shrap, but your site is like the only site I regularly visit so... it would be the site that might pop up."

It's like I'm talking to a wall. I said it *doesn't* log the sites you visit. How many times can I say the same thing over and over again

My bad, I wasn't refering to any comments. I was just making a facious joke. I haven't been following the posts so I didn't read yours. I was just making a generalized comment in an attempt at facious ironic humor.