Becareful of Battlefield 2142

[Steel Onimusha]

It looks like EA will be spying on you if you purchase Battlefield 2142 for the pc.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4568

[x Kaiye]

O.o...

[Look Its a Panda]

Yet another reason to avoid EA. Good thing they mostly publish crap.

[The Geeky Panda]

EA is doing sumthing more than being EA.

[Kal-El]

like Some of the people said in the comments, the article is more speculation than anything else. There's no FACTS involved. They're speculating that this is how it will work.

However, I do agree that having to pay 50$ for a game and then adding to their profits by playing the game is wrong. I don't see how this can offset the development costs either (isn't that what we paid 50$ for?). A much better and probably more acceptable argument EA could have used is that the ads are to offset the costs of stats gathering and storage (for the rankings).

EDIT: Then again I don't see how this is any different than you buying a shirt or a pair of shoes from some name brand that have their names printed across the front/back/whatever. One of these that come to mind right away is Nike. You pay THEM to advertise for them, but no one ever says a word about it.

[meow]

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a379/Mikevolta/82432.jpg

http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/4091020922/m/8171062394

[H2OSilentCid]

watch someone will hack that so it will not allow this program to send anything to anyone. Right now I downloaded the full game from EA and the damn thing isn't loading GG to EA for having a download that doesn't work.

[Raevn]

Considering EA is going to charge for cheat codes now as well, this doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

Boo.

[PMS Saphira]

EA just released a patch for BF2, and in order to get it to run, they're asking people to uninstall a windows security patch. Not good at all.

http://hgamer.blogspot.com/2006/10/another-reason-to-say-no-to-battlefield.html

[H2OSilentCid]

We are aware of the confusion concerning In Game Advertising functionality in Battlefield 2142. The Dice Live Team has put together the following explanation of what IGA does in the game and how it works.

"We would like to provide more information on in-game advertising in Battlefield 2142. To try and help everyone better understand it, here is how it works.

The in-game advertisement is respectful of players' privacy: it never accesses files not directly related to the game, and it does not capture personal data such as cookies, account login detail, gameplay behaviour or surfing history. As it is an integrated part of Battlefield 2142 and not a separate program, it only runs when the game is running.

Because BF2142 delivers ads by region, the IP address of the player is used to determine the region of the player and helps serve ads by region and language; for instance, a player in Paris will be presented with ads in French. Note that this IP address is not stored on the advertisement server and is not repurposed for other uses.

A unique ID number is anonymously assigned the first time the player joins a Battlefield 2142 online game. It is stored locally on the PC but is not linked to any personal details.

The in-game advertisement gathers what we call “impression data”, such as location of the billboard in the game or duration of advertisement impression. It helps see how many people have seen an ad – but not who has seen it.

We are also conscious that the advertisement shouldn’t distract the player from the overall gaming experience, so all ads fit in the unique environment of each level in the game. The content of the ads is also controlled to ensure that no offensive content is displayed in Battlefield 2142.

We all hope that this explanation will address recent concerns on the advertisement in Battlefield 2142.

See you on the Battlefield.

Your Dice Live Team"

[Sargonas H2O]

yeah, there is a windows security update that affects how malicious programs can access your system (ala spyware) that EA says needs to be removed in order to make the latest patch actually install error free....

go figure...