I just saw that Borderlands games are getting review bombed right now.
Hopefully they take their shit spyware out. I dunno the solution for catching online cheating (I never play online so I haven't really looked into it), but root access is unconscionable for single player games.
It seems wildly coincidental to introduce kernel level spyware at the same time as suddenly giving a game for free. I doubt they will roll it back.
BL2 is almost 15 years old at this point. The spyware got added to all their games but I don't think this particular giveaway has anything to do with it. That said, of course they're not gonna stop collecting everyone's data, or at least barring a massive boycott of all their shit which I don't see happening.
Well this particular giveaway is a promotional for letting everyone know BL4 is coming out soon. The spyware is probably something they wanted to shovel in before that comes out and were probably hoping this freebie would help that change go under the radar, rather than highlight it. It may also have been an intention to have this freebie release take the flak on the TOS change in hope that it would die down before BL4. Either way, the chain of events is somewhat related and I don't see it being reversed unless BL4 tanks hard.
The cynic in me still leans towards: what better way is there to push spyware than by Trojan horsing it into a beloved thing that you gift to everyone.
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