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> I hope the author is collecting juicy analytics. I hope they're not. Can't we have a few things in this world that are just fun without going and sticking su
by anticorporate 10mo ago
> I hope the author is collecting juicy analytics.
I hope they're not. Can't we have a few things in this world that are just fun without going and sticking surveillance on them?
- snackdex 10mo agoif the analytics lead to an actual game on steam im down
- butlike 10mo agoYou could just package an arbitrary 100 levels, let the player play them in any order, then give rewards for 10, 20, 30, 40, etc. levels completed/mastered.
- Feathercrown 10mo agoThis would still benefit from a difficulty rating system or order
- Forgeties79 10mo agoOr go full on kaizo Mario and make it a random room out of the 100
- snackdex 10mo agonaw im looking to have fun, not cry
- snackdex 10mo agosomething in me loves progressively harder levels
- BloodyIron 10mo agoCollecting analytics like this is effectively the same as play-testing physical board games in-development. People play a game, information is gathered, and the game is tuned in response to that. If zero information were ever gathered, games could not be balanced or tuned for other things like unforeseen problems. Please, show me a piece of software, or game, that is perfect the first time it is made.
- ycombinary 10mo ago[dead]
- wat10000 10mo agoIt's effectively the same, except people volunteer or are paid to play test. This whole industry really needs a lesson on consent.
- adventured 10mo agoSo long as personal information is not collected, consent is not morally necessary. If I collect information on how often a coin-op Street Fighter II game is played in an arcade, while collecting no personal information, consent is not needed.
- wat10000 10mo agoBecause using someone else's hardware in a public space is clearly equivalent to using your own hardware in the privacy of your own home.
- crazygringo 10mo agoThis is software coming from a server, not hardware. It doesn't matter which device it's run on, or whether it's in your home or not.
- Zetaphor 10mo agoYou are not entitled to play the game, which is hosted on their server which requires bandwidth and other resources. In the same way that you are free to make demands about how software runs on your machine, the author is free to make demands about the use of their software.
- Sardtok 10mo agoIf the data gathered is only on gameplay, and not something that can be used as PII like IP addresses or device information, then it should be fine. Gathering things like the score and time spent completing the level, isn't a problem. This could be used to rank the levels, without gathering any user information.
- helle253 10mo ago'analytics' and 'surveillance' are not the same thing trying to understand player behavior in the context of a board or video game (though there is some overlap!) is not the same as trying to understand user behavior in the context of social media or purchasing behavior - the data of both of which derive their value from being sold to THIRD PARTIES as a commodity. being able to tune a fun little video game is not the same thing at all
- alpha-male-swe 10mo agoyeah man what a horrible world we live in man. thats so profound of you to say, truly. well said man