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What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Ok so that explains the bad reviews, but why is steam giving the game away for free? Also BL3 is heavily discounted

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I sometimes wonder what will happen when EAC, that has root access to millions of PCs, gets compromised or has grunty employee and pushes malicious update

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Same thing that happened to genshin when it's anti cheats got compromised I would guess. Not a lot and everyone ends up not caring.

Because normal people do not give a single fuck about the technical aspect of data privacy.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

It probably spys on you already.

The company that makes the Overwolf game launcher is an Israli cyber security company that gets money from the US.

Tencent spys on people for China through a lot of the games they own.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Crowdstrike 2.0

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I just don't understand anticheat or copy protection on PvE games. I can understand it if you don't want to play against a cheater, but this is a cooperative shooter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Need to protect those purchasing opportunities from cheaters.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

It's for precedent on future games and to sneak in shit for later. Wittle down your expectations and privacy, make it "normal".

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 days ago (2 children)

See you're looking at it from the point of view that it would serve the player experience, but that's not what it's for, it's to mine your data

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

We haven’t gotten another Middle Earth game because it had an online requirement

Now look where we are

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