Steam and ETW

[quadalpha]

Sorry, I'm not quite seeing what the matter is. I imagine the most that happens to that data is a few numbers get shifted in their aggregate usage statistics, rather than anything remotely personally identifiable.

[MStumm]

Sorry, I'm not quite seeing what the matter is. I imagine the most that happens to that data is a few numbers get shifted in their aggregate usage statistics, rather than anything remotely personally identifiable.

Well Team Fortress uses steam to keep track of your playing time, score and achievements. So it is possible that the info they are getting is personally identifiable.

[irishron2004]

Personally, conspiracy theorists are going to have a field day with this. How much of my firewall am I going to have to open for Steam? How many little cookies are they going to leave behind? Anybody with Steam look in your cookie jar? I want the option of whether to have my game registered. I want to get updates when I want, not when they decide to do it for me. Is this going to be another autoupdater running in the backgroung I am going to have to disable?
George Orwell, how do you do.

[Daevyll]

Hmm, I was under the following impression:

- you can choose between buying the game in a box (thus not needing Steam at all except MP perhaps) or downloading it through Steam
- if you download through steam, you download it once and then do not need to connect to Steam again in order to play SP

Is this correct? Or do I get Steam even with boxed version? And it needs to be running for SP too?

[Sir Beane]

These are the facts:

When Empire is installed it will need an internet connection once, to verify it is a legitimate purchase. After that you need never connect to the internet again.

If Steam is online it 'phones home' to check for updates, not to verify your game.

If you are playing the game with Steam online it might record your Steam Achievements and playtime and that is it.

Steam is not some kind of evil third party software designed to get information. Millions of people use it everyday without incident. If it had sinister connotations we would know about it by now.

We do not need another discussion/flamewar about DRM and Steam so regretably I am going to have to close this thread.

Should you wish to discuss the issues surrounding Steam as a DRM platform then please do so in the Backroom where they can handle the heated discussion, thank you.

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