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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 53571

CGW podcast reveals (thanks EvilAvatar) that

Battlefield 2142 (launch trailer has some anonymous tracking software that's included in the game. A thread on Shacknews gives a report:

When you open the box, a big slip of paper falls out first, preceeding any discs or manuals. The slip of paper says, essenti

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djRom · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:05 pm Post subject:

Yeah, its all about the in game ads.

Speaking of ingame ads, you know I didn't realize until just recently when I dusted off my sister's old dreamcast. And then went out and bought a bunch of games for it, that a lot of old games had ingame ads, I guess it was never a big deal when the games weren't 50-60$ a piece. lol

Ravenheart · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:08 pm Post subject:

My copy doesn't have any spyware, but then again i haven't played online.

Ozieo · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2004 Posts: 648

.... another reason the stay away from this miserable EA crap.

Smiley_ie · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:48 pm Post subject:

Have to say i have had a blast with BF2. The patches have being crap, but this is just insane. Why does EA just mess up everthing.

Ravenheart · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:04 pm Post subject:

Venom1 · Senior Member Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 256

No way i'll buy this game.
Fu*k you EA .

darknothing · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:16 pm Post subject:

be nice if a Real hacker could do somthing to EA for this BS.
and be nice if there would be a way to get rid of this spyware without the game getting messed up.

miglaugh · Elite Member Joined: 02 Feb 2005 Posts: 367

Time to boycott EA...

darknothing · Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:41 am Post subject:

dude i will NEVER buy another EA game not after this spyware shit
if they told us noone who knows about spyware would have baught the fuckn game..

Genoism · Elite Member Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 339

its not spyware, it just makes sure its not going to sell u an add for some local UK store when your in the USA....although i dont like in game adds I must admit that dev costs are SKYROCKETING to make higher quality games, if people are going to reject this so strongly we may very well end up with far fewer games to chose from in the future, and with notiably less quality or 'fun' factors.

th4t1guy · Senior Member Joined: 09 Aug 2004 Posts: 282

That's a weak excuse. Game development costs are rising, but this is mainly because more and more companies are focusing on "hollywood" style games instead of trying to improve playability. EA didn't do anything new, they took an old concept polished it with something that could just as well be a $20 add-on for BF2.
If the revelation of this adware isn't transparent enough to show that EA is trying to milk as much as they can out of consumers, then look at what they did with their unlock system in the game.
This type of thing should never be tolerated in a game that costs $50. I could see it being justified if the whole game was a free download though...

Safer · Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:01 pm Post subject:

It IS spyware;

"Any software that covertly gathers user information through the user's Internet connection without his or her knowledge, usually for advertising purposes."

And the covert part of it is of course that you have no controll or knowledge of this "information gathered for advertisment purposes" and what is really gathered.

I'm not even going to break on how much I'm disgusted by this, I'm just gonna boycott any last product (there One of knowledge) I thought of buying from them. Good bye Command & Conquer - may the ethernal soul of Westwood guard you past this.

siiix · Contributor Joined: 19 Oct 2006 Posts: 1 Location: berlin

i wonder if thats reason enugh to return it to the store for money back in germany ?

on open software there is usualy no money back, but that paper is inside the box or ?!