Isn't this kind of a knee-jerk reaction to something that we don't know all the details about? Is this information being sent when you engage in a single player "bot game" of q3a? It's doubtful. The information is being sent to ID when you connect to THEIR master server. (right?) Really, what's the difference between this and a site recording your os/browser in its logs? Or setting a cookie and then selecting a banner to be displayed while you view web pages on a site? Surely people aren't mad about this because it's in invasion of privacy - really, there isn't much of that around these days anyway. ID Software isn't selling your soul to marketers, it's generating statistical info about the folks playing the game. While you're bitching, I'm enjoying the game =)
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Isn't this kind of a knee-jerk reaction to something that we don't know all the details about? Is this information being sent when you engage in a single player "bot game" of q3a? It's doubtful. The information is being sent to ID when you connect to THEIR master server. (right?) Really, what's the difference between this and a site recording your os/browser in its logs? Or setting a cookie and then selecting a banner to be displayed while you view web pages on a site? Surely people aren't mad about this because it's in invasion of privacy - really, there isn't much of that around these days anyway. ID Software isn't selling your soul to marketers, it's generating statistical info about the folks playing the game. While you're bitching, I'm enjoying the game =)