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LordNothing, on 17 June 2021 - 06:34 PM, said:
also true, also bad and the users are to blame.
I don't blame the users so much as I do the companies. The companies could choose not to do this. However, it became industry standard, and it has been largely, begrudgingly accepted by the populace. Privacy is a weird thing. People say that if you have nothing to hide than you have nothing to worry about, until it's their own privacy. I mean, those frequent customer cards you have for gas stations and supermarkets? Those are used to track your shopping habits. They don't care about your habits specifically, but rather the aggregate data of all their customers. What's popular? What isn't? Do certain items sell better at certain times of day? What day is the best to change prices on? Etc. But if they ever wanted to find out who a given customer number correlated with it would not be terribly difficult.
LordNothing, on 17 June 2021 - 06:34 PM, said:
the government also doesn't care, until they do. its only a matter of time until they start abusing that power. purchasing a subscription to a right/left wing magazine might get you put on a train to a murder factory one day.
While that is fairly extreme, I've noted that single-party governments tend to end up doing bad things. And I do worry for the US, as our government is heading that direction. (One of our two major parties is teetering on a balance beam; falling to one side is authoritarianism, the other is self-annihilation. Either way, the result is one party.)
At any rate, this is straying dangerously close to politics. While some threads start out with politics and/or social issues and shouldn't be allowed to go on, I don't see this as one of those. No sense ruining it.
At this point, I'll just reiterate my suggestion that a non-platform dependent discount coupon given to everyone that owns the game would boost sales. They'll either use it buy the game on a second platform, or they'll gift the coupon to a friend so they can play co-op. Either way, a sale is a sale.
