Not trolling at all. I'm a game developer, so I was curious to hear about instances of game devs using kernel level anticheat to harvest people's personal (and identifiable) data to sell to data brokers.
Glad to know there aren't any examples of it outside of people screaming about capitalism - which is, let's be honest, quite indicative of the Lemmy experience these days.
So by that logic we shouldn't be downloading any precompiled binaries from the net - they could all be spying on us!
Can you name an instance of a game company doing that?
Good. The fault is absolutely on Epic for not putting in proper confirmation dialogues for spending resources tied to real world currency.
And, as a former f2p/mobile game dev, I don't buy the argument of "we didn't know that would happen!". They absolutely knew, and were trying their luck.
Thing is, they most likely made a lot more in erroneous purchases than what they have to pay in reimbursements (think people accidentally pressing a button, making an erroneous purchase, then choosing to "live with it because the amount was small anyway")... So, in the long run the deceptive practice probably paid off for them.
Though, I hope this lawsuit dissuades them from trying it again.
Disclaimer: I know nothing about Epic's finances, so any assumption made above is just that: a baseless assumption, backed only by the fact I've had many similar experiences.
Poor Crytek... They worked /ended up working all night long and through a holiday.
Say what you want about game bugs and how annoying they might be for players, but teams sacrificing like this to fix a mistake is something I'll always have sympathy for.
Hope they can get some rest 😅
I'm with you. I'm curious how it'll go.
The response is less of a response, more of an explanation of their current feelings pertaining to matrix. Seems odd when Matthew made some clear, individual points that could've been addressed.
Except the premium offering pretty much just relates to media upload limit. I'm honestly surprised that they even allowed people to upload as much as they do.
Makes sense to limit free users (will also help with spam) if they're not drowning in VC money.
It doesn't affect you in the slightest, other than it might further fund Synapse's/the spec's development meaning your server might get new features.
You know who else never spoke in complete sentences?
Tom Taglietelle.
I dunno, I think he's more of a Peter Penne...
That's because most of them are playing F2P video games on their mobile devices.