[BNM] [OT] BF2142 is it any good?

[delarge]

whoa... sounds creepy - but really? what kind of data are they ging to
gather from me whilst playing Battlefield? How considerate I am to my fellow
squad members? What a sketchy sniper I am?

I mean, what other kind fo data is there to get? I suppose what hours I play
and how often.... but I can't think of much else... either way... another
reason to hesitate on an install....


On 10/23/06, iestyn lloyd <iestyn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/23/06, delarge <delargerock at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >1. The EA in-game advertising data-capture
> >
> > Say wha? What's this? are they recording me shouting at myself?
> > What are they recording?
>
> http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3154522
>
> " Battlefield gamers beware: by opening a copy of Battlefield 2142 and
> participating in a game requiring Internet access, you're agreeing to
> have Electronic Arts and one of their in-game advertising associates,
> IGA Worldwide, study you. A printed disclaimer provided with the game
> states the game will be monitoring "advertising data" to determine
> what ads are serviced to individual players.
>
> What if you don't want to become part of EA's little lab experiment?
> The publisher recommends you "do not install or play the software on
> any platform that is used to connect to the Internet." Kind of defeats
> the purpose of playing Battlefield 2124 in the first place, thought,
> doesn't it? And there doesn't appear to be an alternative solution. "
>
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