So last year I was one of the people running around proclaiming that Origin's EULA was outright creepy in that they wanted the right to basically completely monitor your computer usage, right down to not only what media player you used to watch movies and listen to music, but even what movies you watch, what music you listen to, and where you got them from. To me, this was privacy invasion of the highest order and I vowed that as long as I had any doubts about the service, I would never agree to their EULA. Considering how much I adore the Mass Effect franchise and that the conclusion capstone of the trilogy is due out in mere weeks, it is truly saying something that Origin's EULA creeps me out so much that I won't continue forward with the series as long as Origin is a required part of the deal.
While nothing about my stance has changed, a friend of mine has been in love with The Old Republic since launch day and has wanted me to play it with him. I hate MMORPGs as well because it feels like paying rent to use something I've already purchased, but he got around this by flatly offering to pay my subscription fee for as long as he is playing and I bought the physical copy myself. I was all set to purchase it when it dawned on me that TOR, being an EA/Bioware product, might require me to download and install Origin to play. A quick search and yes, if I buy the game, I'm going to be forced to agree to Origin's EULA to play it. But another search past that yields the EULA and it doesn't quite look like it did before. So I come to you, good denizens of my second home, to ask the obvious question that I clearly didn't keep up with.
Did EA back down and remove the requirement that I give them predatory rights to data collection on my system or is it still in there somewhere and I'm just not seeing it?
While nothing about my stance has changed, a friend of mine has been in love with The Old Republic since launch day and has wanted me to play it with him. I hate MMORPGs as well because it feels like paying rent to use something I've already purchased, but he got around this by flatly offering to pay my subscription fee for as long as he is playing and I bought the physical copy myself. I was all set to purchase it when it dawned on me that TOR, being an EA/Bioware product, might require me to download and install Origin to play. A quick search and yes, if I buy the game, I'm going to be forced to agree to Origin's EULA to play it. But another search past that yields the EULA and it doesn't quite look like it did before. So I come to you, good denizens of my second home, to ask the obvious question that I clearly didn't keep up with.
Did EA back down and remove the requirement that I give them predatory rights to data collection on my system or is it still in there somewhere and I'm just not seeing it?
