EA signs deal to license Star Wars games

[SpatiallyAware]

I can't believe that people are equating origin terms of use with valve....... You've gotta be kidding.

 

[darkewaffle]

The difference is that Valve only asks for permission to collect data that is related with Valve. Origins is saying that if they feel like it they are permitted to download a full copy of your hard drive. There is a significant difference in what they are asking.

Valve doesn't ask permission for one iota of that particular collected data, it's all implicitly accepted when you install the program. The only difference is the hardware metrics, but as far as privacy concerns go, how 'private' is your video card really?

The non-personal information collected may include demographic information including gender, age, zip code, information about your computer, hardware, software, platform, game system, media, mobile device, including unique device IDs or other device identifiers, incident data, Internet Protocol (IP) address, network Media Access Control (MAC) address and connection. We also collect other non-personal information such as username, user ID or persona, feature usage, game play statistics, scores and achievements, user rankings, time spent playing our games, and click paths as well as other data that you may provide in surveys, via your account preferences and online profiles such as friends lists or purchases, for instance.

Clearly, Origin is out to get your entire hard drive. It's a verbose list because compliance necessitates it be so, not because they actually collect much of anything. Everything anyone had a problem with in the EULA is clearly stated to be within the bounds of their Privacy Policy, quoted above, which explicitly describes the data they're looking for and limited to. And to nobody's surprise, it's the standard demographics and analytics.

It even says that if anything stated in the EULA conflicts with the PP, the PP takes precedent.

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

No one is bitching that "BF3 isn't BF2"... I really wonder where you get these psycho pro-EA one liners that you continually repeat over and over and over.

Not only is BF3 not BF2, it is more CoD than BF.