bimbimboy@lemm.ee to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoWhat's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.lemm.eeimagemessage-square200linkfedilinkarrow-up1965arrow-down143
arrow-up1922arrow-down1imageWhat's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.lemm.eebimbimboy@lemm.ee to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square200linkfedilink
minus-squareGoodeye8@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up189·2 months agoI haven’t read the new TOS but if this review is correct it looks like a GDPR nightmare for them. Good luck to them explaining why they need to collect all that personal data.
minus-squareRaltoid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up70·edit-22 months agoThe “collected data types” in that comment seems to be copy/pasted from the privacy policy https://www.take2games.com/privacy/en-US/
minus-squareavattar@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up44·2 months agoThat might be US only, where the companies have freedom to get all the customer’s data and do with it as they will.
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months agoThe list where this doesn’t apply seems to basically be every country with consumer protection laws. They obviously know this won’t fly pretty much anywhere other than the US so that’s all they’re trying to push.
minus-squareVanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·edit-22 months agoMost people don’t care about privacy. Most people in the western civilized world are on Facebook, so…
minus-squareblind3rdeye@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months agobut ask those same people whether facebook should be allowed to collect and use all that data, and people will generally say ‘no’.
minus-squareLainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoSad truth, but it’s no excuse.
I haven’t read the new TOS but if this review is correct it looks like a GDPR nightmare for them. Good luck to them explaining why they need to collect all that personal data.
The “collected data types” in that comment seems to be copy/pasted from the privacy policy
https://www.take2games.com/privacy/en-US/
That might be US only, where the companies have freedom to get all the customer’s data and do with it as they will.
The list where this doesn’t apply seems to basically be every country with consumer protection laws.
They obviously know this won’t fly pretty much anywhere other than the US so that’s all they’re trying to push.
Most people don’t care about privacy.
Most people in the western civilized world are on Facebook, so…
but ask those same people whether facebook should be allowed to collect and use all that data, and people will generally say ‘no’.
Sad truth, but it’s no excuse.