This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.
If you hit "next", the consent window opens again and if you refuse any of them, you get put back at this screen so you're stuck in a loop.
This shitty practice is even endorsed by Google, as they are promoting this game to try out and earn points.
Show us the next screen.
"We value your privacy"
That's what makes it worth invading.
I might have to copy this one liner and spam it everywhere. Omg.
This goes against the GDPR.
There is no GDPR outside of EU.
So they don't sell in EU? Or disable the dialogue only there?
That's what it looks like inside EU:
Only one option to agree to the user agreement and data usage. When you decline, the app just closes instantly
Which speak to the bigger problem of why don't we have this globally? Why hasn't the US had the legislative balls to implement and enforce an equivalent law? For a culture that is so paranoid about personal information, it's just such a massive mental gap.
WHAT. GAME. IS IT.
Or don’t waste everyone’s fkg time Jesus
I originally didn't want to include it to not give them any publicity, but a lot of folks seem to agree with you so I added a link to the OP
So don't play it?
enhancing your gaming journey
I see that and the only enhancement I'll get is a refund
They sure do value privacy, it's worth a lot to them to sell it. Maybe they should have written "your privacy is valuable to us". Extra points for throwing "gaming journey" in there, lol.
The other option should just be uninstall.
What was on the "Next" screen? Seems like you could decline on the next screen that would have the options and such
Name and shame
invite you to consider consenting
They're very polite considering it's an uncompromising 'do this or get the fuck out'
If you're in the EU, this is illegal. Consent has to be given freely for it to have legal weight. That means, it cannot be tied to the performance of the service, unless providing the data is strictly necessary for providing the service.
I guess, they get away with it, because no one cares enough to sue a shitty game.
I am, but what can I do? Try and reporting it via the obtuse methods of Google to have them investigate themselves seems pointless
The only thing that's pointless is doing nothing.
Now, I'm not arguing that fighting against this is worth your time. I'm making more a semantic argument that hopelessnes and apathy only allow things to get worse.
Also, fuck this game. Don't play it.
Report them to your national privacy authority.
Assuming you are living in the EU, your country will have that.
I mean, if you do want to do something about it, reporting it to your regional data protection officer would be the first step. Then they'll contact whomever is responsible for this game and tell them to change it or get sued.
I don't think I've had a mobile game on my phone in 10 years, are there any actual decent ones? They all look so generic.
Unciv is a FOSS clone of Civilization 5, great stuff.
Well there is stardew valley.
The only mobile games I play are Luck Be a Landlord, Ascension, Shattered Pixel Dungeon, and lately the new Pokémon TCG.
My favorite of them is Ascension. I love that game so much.
I gave shattered pixel dungeon like 30 hours. Fuck that game. Items are impossible to equip. Potions are 100% random. Bosses wreck your shit. I literally never got in upgrade in like 30 runs. Literally nothing was equippable.
Did you make sure to find all potions of strength and scrolls of upgrade? There's 2 potions of strength and 3 scrolls of upgrade on the 4 levels before each boss. These enable you to equip items you otherwise wouldn't be able to to equip. Scrolls of upgrade lower the strength requirement of an item. Alchemy with a potion of strength produces a potion that lowers the strength requirement of an item by two, but which can only be used once per item. One strategy can be to hold off on upgrading until you have an item worthy of it (tier 3 or better, better if it's already upgraded) which you have the ability to upgrade so that you can use it. Avoid upgrading low-level weapons and armor unless necessary.
Potions aren't 100% random. For certain loot room there's guaranteed to be a corresponding potion to solve it, for example if there's a room with items behind magical fire there will be a potion of frost somewhere in that level. One enemy in each region is guaranteed to drop potions of healing, in the first area for example this is the flies.
Regarding bosses, one strategy can be to make sure you have a strong enough character right before facing it. This may mean that you will need to upgrade low-level items anyway. With time you'll get a feeling of how strong you need to be for a certain boss and region, while still enabling you to progress in the long term.
Also make sure to get to know the abilities of your class, subclass and magical armor and use them to your advantage.
I’m terrible at it. I have no idea how people get far.
Doot for ascension
Sure there are, they are just hard to find on the official stores. I use mini review (website or phone application). https://minireview.io/
thanks!
I like playing Pocket City 2, Slay the Spire, and Balatro on mobile.
Indie PC games that charge money for a mobile port. I have stardew valley, binding of Isaac, balatro, slay the spire, monster train, on my phone. (Several are included with Apple Arcade, though I would definitely not subscribe to Arcade if it weren't included with my other stuff. Also I personally wouldn't play stardew or Isaac without a controller.)
If it's "free" it's almost always obscenely abusive. (There are a handful of exceptions, including some open source ones, but I couldn't name any off the top of my head.)
Binding of Isaac on mobile sounds incredibly frustrating
If it’s “free” it’s almost always obscenely abusive. (There are a handful of exceptions, including some open source ones, but I couldn’t name any off the top of my head.)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.boyle.chris.sgtpuzzles&hl=en-US
No data collected, no extra permissions needed... just the games.
I heard balatro is super fun maybe i'll give that a go!
I'm not as hooked on it as some. It feels kind of same-y over time, and the "it's poker" thing doesn't scratch any of the same itch as regular poker.
But it's sure as hell better than almost any "free" mobile game because it doesn't have a team of people special tailoring algorithms to decide when to cheat to make you win and when to cheat to screw you over in order to pull as much money as possible.
There are some decent ones like chrono trigger, halo, and twisted metal. Or did you mean without an emulator?
Ya just generic phone games, I haven't touched them since jetpack joyride. Actually the last game I played on my phone was pokemon emerald on my ipod touch emulator lol, I'm pretty behind the times.
Looks like a shitty, generic game
Well this is a step up from when they were doing it anyway and didn't have to tell you.