Re: Your future on Alter Aeon: a Discussion of game trends
regarding the mush-z tracking thing, it's not so much what's being tracked that's bothering everyone, it's the fact that said tracking was enabled silently and no one was told. It wasn't in the changelogs, mush-z users weren't informed in any way and had to find out through third parties. The tracking could have been sending something completely harmless and stupid like "I heart John Legend forev3r xoxoxoxoxo" and the fact of the matter is that people would still be right to be annoyed about it. It was done without user's permission and they were not informed. For that reason, the people that put that stuff in there in the first place don't get to shrug it off and go leave us alone gawd it wasn't that bad jees. Developers get caught with their pants down doing this sort of thing all the time and they rightly get roasted for it. Had the developers talked to the user base and been so here's what we're going to do about multiplaying, I'd be willing to bet the majority would have been completely on board. If they had put a line in the changelog about about this, the majority of people would have kept right on and not have bothered at all. Basically, if you hide code that's sending off information and don't tell your users and they then discover it, you absolutely should expect to take flak for it given that you weren't honest and up front about it in the first place.
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