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Welcome on and all to yet another edition of Games out this week!™: Ending Friday 20th October 2006!

Now onto this weeks games!

PC:
The Sims 2: Pets (Expansion Pack)
Age Of Empires III: War Chiefs (Expansion Pack)
Jaws Unleashed
Battlefield 2142
Football Manager 2007

Playstation 2:
Jaws Unleashed
Family Guy
Buzz Junior: Jungle Party (Solus)
Destroy All Humans 2
Buzz Junior: Jungle Party (With Buzzer)

PSP:
KAZooK

Xbox 360:
NBA Live 07

Xbox:
Jaws Unleashed
Family Guy
Destroy All Humans 2

GameCube:
None this week..

Gameboy DS:
None this week..

GameBoy Advanced:
None this week..

8D

Well I'll be BF2142ing it this weekend whether you lightweights are or not.

Football Manager 2007 on PC, yes it is different from last week's.

spoodie wrote:Well I'll be BF2142ing it this weekend whether you lightweights are or not.

Hehehe, Enjoy the spyware

Hehulk wrote:Hehehe, Enjoy the spyware

Oh. Dear. You've been reading other websites, haven't you?

There is no spyware in 2142, just the dynamic advert stuff. (and probably gamespy arcade )

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:Oh. Dear. You've been reading other websites, haven't you?

http://www.Tomshardware.com yes

Hehulk wrote:http://www.Tomshardware.com yes

Just had a look around, everything i can find seems *very* light on information.

The whole thing is iffy (both the claims of spyware, and the fact it may be included)

Still, i'm not buying 2142, so i don't really give a fuck

From what ive read (from various sources, reliable and otherwise) the only thing that really seems in debate is whether its actually spyware or not. And *that* is only because EA actually say that they are collecting your information whilst you are online, thus negating the normal secretive part of spyware.

Joose wrote:From what ive read (from various sources, reliable and otherwise) the only thing that really seems in debate is whether its actually spyware or not. And *that* is only because EA actually say that they are collecting your information whilst you are online, thus negating the normal secretive part of spyware.

That.

Also, given the tiny snippet of info that's been posted

Sites hyping stuff wrote:"When you use the software while connected to the Internet, the advertising technology may record your IP address and other anonymous information,"

We have no way of knowing what "the software' is, it could be saying that when you play 2142 info is collected, or it could be saying that they're hooking your browser to shit to see exactly what you do.

Personally, I would not take the claims of spyware seriously yet, it all smells a bit of tabloid hype.

What EA/DICE have said is that it does not collect any data outside of the game, and your IP is used to determine region for ad purposes. They track how long an ad is rendered on the screen to see how much exposure it gets.

more info here:
http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsart ... chid=12767

deject wrote:What EA/DICE have said is that it does not collect any data outside of the game, and your IP is used to determine region for ad purposes. They track how long an ad is rendered on the screen to see how much exposure it gets.

more info here:
http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsart ... chid=12767

yay, not spyware, tabloid hype

If EA had just come out and said, "This is what the software does," right from the beginning, they could have saved a lot of confusion.

deject wrote:If EA had just come out and said, "This is what the software does," right from the beginning, they could have saved a lot of confusion.

they probably just didnt expect their advertising to be a main talking point in the release

deject wrote:If EA had just come out and said, "This is what the software does," right from the beginning, they could have saved a lot of confusion.

this. they have probably lost a sizble chunk of potential sales through an easily preventable PR fuckup.

May or may not be spyware, but it is adware, with some sort of data collection (whether of consumers or advertisers), which some might argue is just as bad.

It's not the main reason I won't be buying it, but it is a factor.

Gamers don't neccessarily stop buying products from companies they dislike (as a recent poll here demonstrated) I expect EA just calculated the revenue to be earned from the adverts outweighed any drop in sales as a result, so they don't give a fuck really and just count the dollars.

FatherJack wrote:May or may not be spyware, but it is adware, with some sort of data collection (whether of consumers or advertisers), which some might argue is just as bad.

While it is sorta adware-ish maybe (it does display ads, in certain places in a single game) It's certainly not what we usually think of as adware, given it's non-intrusive, easy to remove and an advertised feature.

Also the Information it takes is basically for verifying where you are so you get adverts for english products and checking how much viewing time an advert gets (so they can shockingly discover that a new mouse or a can of lynx is more interesting to 2142 players than tampax)

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:it's non-intrusive

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:Fact is, it won't be subtle

again, Berk, top marks for consistency

non intrusive in the sense of your computer on the whole - we're talking gator vs. some banner ads in game.