Boycott EA Over Origin? I say yes!

[Nouw]

You might as well boycott the internet because any site with any part of facebook does worse shit.

Look up on it.

 

[Cazza]

Boycotting means you want/were going to buy the product in the first place. From day one I didn't plan to and EA keep giving me reason to believe I'm right.

 

[mornal]

If you think you can get a significant number of people to swear off EA's products for long enough to make a difference. I'd say that for every 100 gamers, 5-10 know about this and only 2-3 care. My prediction: any organised boycott fails a within a few weeks of Battlefield 3 releasing or Mass Effect 3 releasing.

And just because Origin can collect anything and everything on your computer doesn't mean they will. As the escapist article pointed out:

EA's data collection practices in all likelihood won't be any different than Valve's

(yes I know there is more to that sentence). If EA does anything significantly different from other companies that do similar things they'd be under fire so fast it'd make their heads spin.

 

[robert01]

You might as well boycott the internet because any site with any part of facebook does worse shit.

Look up on it.

I was going to write a whole long elaborate post and than I read yours. Saves me the time.

How about this everyone.

If you have Facebook account, but want to boycott EA over Origin, do as this man says, look up Facebook. And I mean beyond what those little fucking like buttons do.

Facebook is considerable worse than EA will ever be regarding privacy but everyone seems to use that shit.

Origins monitoring is similar to WoWs governor/warden.

Origin just doesn't look through the title bars of all your open applications. It gathers information about the programs as well. Maybe even usage statistics.

It's not exactly surprising. However it is something to be upset about. It's a huge invasion of privacy, especially just for marketing reasons.

I don't know how true this is. Blizzard didn't have clauses in their EULA or TOS regarding marketers and 3rd party companies until StarCraft 2 was nearing it's release, and Warden was out LONG before that. Warden sends only a programs hash string back to the server where it gets put up against a list of hashes that Blizzard considers in violation of whatever they feel is wrong at that moment in time. Than you either get banned or put on the will be banned when we find the ban hammer list.

 

[Dave Mittner]

You might as well boycott the internet because any site with any part of facebook does worse shit.

Look up on it.

Facebook's usage tracking is inherently limited to what you do in your browser and then only if the websites you visit use Facebook, themselves.

What Origin does encompasses your entire system. What applications you install/uninstall, when you use them, and possibly even looking at how you use them.

 

[Barbas]

Every time you necro a thread, Ewan MacDonald cries.