did this change happen when they made this game “free”?
Judging based on the price history on Is There Any Deal? and the dates of negative Steam reviews mentioning the ToS changes: no. The game is “free” as of this week, but the ToS had been updated with all those negative changes in May.
Ouch, recent reviews are harsh
Take-Two and 2K games have updated all their games Terms of Service, turning this game as well as all of their other games into literal spyware.
Important Info in Terms of Service:
- Mods are a bannable offense
- Display of Cheats/Exploits is bannable
- Forced arbitration clause and a waiver of class action and jury trial rights for all users residing in the United States and any other territory other than Australia, Switzerland, The United Kingdom, or The Territories of The European Economic Area
- You can be banned for using a VPN while connecting to online servers
- Cannot access game content on a Virtual PC
Collected Data Types:
- Identifiers / Contact Information: Name, user name, gamertag, postal and email address, phone number, unique IDs, mobile device ID, platform ID, gaming service ID, advertising ID (IDFA, Android ID) and IP address
- Protected Characteristics: Age and gender
- Commercial Information: Purchase and usage history and preferences, including gameplay information
- Billing Information: Payment information (credit / debit card information) and shipping address
- Internet / Electronic Activity: Web / app browsing and gameplay information related to the Services; information about your online interaction(s) with the Services or our advertising; and details about the games and platforms you use and other information related to installed applications
- Device and Usage Data: Device type, software and hardware details, language settings, browser type and version, operating system, and information about how users use and interact with the Services (e.g., content viewed, pages visited, clicks, scrolls)
- Profile Inferences: Inferences made from your information and web activity to help create a personalized profile so we can identify goods and services that may be of interest
- Audio / Visual Information: Account photos, images, and avatars, audio information via chat features and functionality, and gameplay recordings and video footage (such as when you participate in playtesting)
- Sensitive Information: Precise location information (if you allow the Services to collect your location), account credentials (user name and password), and contents of communications via chat features and functionality.
You get me closer to God
For when you want to delete everything in the root directory, but absolutely need to keep the directory itself.
Which came first, your username or your avatar?
Sure, it’s just that in the early days when we started getting more Lemmy apps than just Jerboa/Lemmur, Voyager tended to be on the forefront of adding new features not found in other apps. But nowadays, as the landscape of Lemmy apps has matured, Voyager has fallen behind as its philosophy seems to be stuck at “be a clone of Apollo”. It is by no means a bad Lemmy app; it is just no longer at the same relative level compared to other competing Lemmy apps.
Wow, I cannot even find a setting to enable it. I used to have a very high opinion of Voyager, but I am finding recently that it is missing a lot of features.
You can open me in Vim, Greg. Am I a file?
**NO**
30 Rock did it the other way around while also poking fun at the trope itself
Is there a reason to emphasize “skippable” here?
Wow, I misread “HM” as “HAHA” and had a different expectation of what the bottom text was going to be