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Gaming Companies Remove Analytics App After Massive User Outcry (bleepingcomputer.com)
An anonymous reader writes: "Several gaming companies have announced plans to remove support for an analytics app they have bundled with their games," reports Bleeping Computer. "The decision to remove the app came after several Reddit and Steam users noticed that many game publishers have recently embedded a controversial analytics SDK (software development kit) part of recent updates to their games. The program bundled with all these games, and at the heart of all the recent controversy, is RedShell, an analytics package provided by Innervate, Inc., to game publishers."
The app is intended to collect information about the source of new game installs, and details about the gamer. Following a massive user outcry in the past two weeks, several game makers have given in to pressure and are removing this SDK. Game makers and games who announced they were removing RedShell include Bethesda (Elder Scrolls), All Total War games, Warhammer games, Magic the Gathering Arena, and more. [This Google Docs spreadsheet and Reddit thread have a list of games containing RedShell.]
The app is intended to collect information about the source of new game installs, and details about the gamer. Following a massive user outcry in the past two weeks, several game makers have given in to pressure and are removing this SDK. Game makers and games who announced they were removing RedShell include Bethesda (Elder Scrolls), All Total War games, Warhammer games, Magic the Gathering Arena, and more. [This Google Docs spreadsheet and Reddit thread have a list of games containing RedShell.]
"See, this is why I'm pissed at game companies that are poisoning the well for developers like me. I can't even discuss the matter without getting modded as a troll."
You get modded a a troll because your command of the English language sucks, and perhaps you should work on your command of that before you trry other languages.
That you aren't even into Alpha or Beta yet tells me you're probably not qualified. I had my 2D Second Life clone out of Alpha within two weeks, and out of Beta within a month. What the fuck are you doing, still writing the invasive telemetry shit when you could've already figured out the starting code for the actual goddamned game?
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
" I'm currently writing my own system that measures this data in pre-release versions of the game"
That does nothing to assuage me that there is no lying by omission happening. The second anyone puts any telemetry into anything, history shows something else is going on behind the scenes.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.