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I see you've found a way to rationalize everything. Honest work is software which doesn't violate the customer's rights and privacy. There's no bonus points fo

by blub 11y ago

I see you've found a way to rationalize everything. Honest work is software which doesn't violate the customer's rights and privacy. There's no bonus points for merely not breaking the law and I can guarantee you that this producer is breaking the law big time in the EU. There's always the choice of selling software for money, but you and many other producers have given up your morals a long time ago in exchange for IAP and ad dollars, so you're blind when it comes to recognizing them. There are many companies in this world, some will succeed, a lot won't. If the alternative is having human beings treated like rats in a maze, it would be better for society that those startups creating SDKs would simply die.

tripzilch 11y ago
Yup. That's why this "final thought" doesn't add up: > You want to put a stop to this? Stop playing free games. Buy a game for 4.99 or 9.99. No. The only solution is to stop playing games that exploit people's privacy in such a way. No matter what you pay for them. What about people who can't tell how bad they're being exploited? Well, for starters, paying 4.99 is not going to suddenly make them able to tell. Surely paying may make them believe the game is more honourable, but that's really the same spiel all over again, is it not? No it's much simpler. Just get your games from a company in a jurisdiction where this shit is illegal. Like in the EU. Just like people are sometimes wary of certain foreign brand electronics having cheaper chips or whatnot in them, now you know what US-based game companies are legally allowed to do to their users. And the lengths they will go to do it. > We don’t want to be making games like this, and we don’t want another meeting about retention, cohorts or churn. And please. "Look at what you made us do!", have some personal responsibility.

by blub 11y ago

tripzilch 11y ago

Yup. That's why this "final thought" doesn't add up: > You want to put a stop to this? Stop playing free games. Buy a game for 4.99 or 9.99. No. The only solution is to stop playing games that exploit people's privacy in such a way. No matter what you pay for them. What about people who can't tell how bad they're being exploited? Well, for starters, paying 4.99 is not going to suddenly make them able to tell. Surely paying may make them believe the game is more honourable, but that's really the same spiel all over again, is it not? No it's much simpler. Just get your games from a company in a jurisdiction where this shit is illegal. Like in the EU. Just like people are sometimes wary of certain foreign brand electronics having cheaper chips or whatnot in them, now you know what US-based game companies are legally allowed to do to their users. And the lengths they will go to do it. > We don’t want to be making games like this, and we don’t want another meeting about retention, cohorts or churn. And please. "Look at what you made us do!", have some personal responsibility.