Battlefield 2142 to include spyware, trackers, cookies, all to generate in-game adverts -- Fuck EA.

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http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/centipedes/battlefield-2142-with-a-dash-of-spyware-207955.php

So. In the latest CGW podcast, they received retail boxed copies of BF 2142.

When you open the box, a big slip of paper falls out first, preceeding any discs or manuals. The slip of paper says, essentially, that 2142 includes monitoring software which runs while your computer is online, and records "anonymous" information like your IP address, surfing habits (probably via cookie scans), and other "computing habits" in order to report this information back to ad companies and ad servers, which generates in-game ads.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 04:44 (twenty years ago)

Man, that game is fucking garbage and they have the nerve to put spyware with it. EA: eat a dick.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 08:54 (twenty years ago)

i know nothing about the game but the title is reason enough for me to ignore it. sounds like a prequel to battlecruiser 3000ad
http://www.3000ad.com/downloads/bc3k.shtml

― a.b. (alanbanana), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 13:30 (twenty years ago)

It's not like the BF series is that good anyway.

― Darramouss (Darramouss ftw), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 14:02 (twenty years ago)

really? a colleague at work keeps banging on about how amazing it is. but i suspiciously suspect his only experience with it is YouTube trailers.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 14:06 (twenty years ago)

It's ok not like it's a shit game, just didn't hook me like CS

― Darramouss (Darramouss ftw), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 14:13 (twenty years ago)

and their response:

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=11300

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 06:17 (twenty years ago)

"actually getting brands to do specific creative for games"

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 09:07 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

been playing this a while and never noticed any ads

― DG, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

exactly.

― s1ocki, Thursday, 3 April 2008 04:26 (eighteen years ago)

What about this upcoming Battlefield: Heroes then? Downloadable, free to play, and supported by in-game item purchasing and ads...sounds like a natural extension of the original shitty idea, but at least it takes away the sting of being charged for your spyware.

― JimD, Thursday, 3 April 2008 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

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