First July assassination: Splice
3 hours playtime
16 of 16 achievements
I finally managed to finish all the sequences, although I had to resort to a guide for a couple of angelic solutions.
Total playtime needed to get all the achievements: a bit less than 3 hours.
Nice game, relaxing soundtrack, but… why did I give it a negative review?
Read out my review to find out why, and upvote it if you agree!
Or, if you don’t want to, I’ll just point out the reason:
data mining without asking for your consent, or even a chance of opting out of it.
I completely nuked every trace of this game after finishing it, apart from the soundtrack that I copied elsewhere.
Seriously, do American companies even care at all about their international customers?
Even though they probably only know about American laws, their behaviour would be considered illegal almost everywhere in Europe, and they could very well face dire consequences if a class-action is made against them…
Thanks for warning me of this game. Thanks to my firewall this would have been blocked, but not asking for confirmation is just rude.
I was kinda shocked myself when I discovered it, after stumbling upon a forum post about it while I was searching for a guide.
Another game I know can collect data is Minecraft, for example, but it lets to turn it off in the settings.
I don’t have anything against data mining. It is a business model and brings them money. But not warning the user is a no-go
Exactly the same as me.
Furthermore, I’m a Google customer already (Android, GMail, Chrome, Drive), but I use those services knowing what happens beforehand.
Not warning is a no-go, indeed.
That kind of practice is very fishy. As you all said, it would be fine if they at least informed about the data mining in Terms and Conditions that the player would have to accept beforehand, or even better, presented it while in-game - but just letting it run in the background without notice? They deserve to be scolded about it.
I hope this is a rare occurrence. I didn’t think I’d need to keep an eye on Steam games doing something like this.
“WARNING: it recently came to my attention that this game sends data to Google Analytics, without asking for consent, or giving an opt-out option.” It does what. o_o
Is this actually legal in the US itself? That seems absurd. Whatever could it be harvesting anyway. :s