Re: Regarding the Use of Third-Party Programs and Player Safety

[Kaurhz]

I would say it is 'working as intended'...

But, that 'intended' outcome isn't really a good one by any stretch of the imagination. A good blacklist system should not come at the expense of reasonable privacy measures, and as far as reasonable privacy measures goes, this one is acting like they were in a competition to see how bad they could make such a system.

There is 'benefit' to it, but IMO for me personally that benefit does not outweigh the risks involved with sending out an account ID in raw form.

I would say this thread is as a result of apathy more than anything else.. People are just coming to terms with the fact that the developers view player/online privacy as a serious afterthought. Which of all outcomes this is probably the worst.. Both for them and for the players.. Mainly because it shows people are just giving up, and then because the developers are probably going to get the brilliant idea that this is an acceptable/good implementation just because 'it works'. Eventually someone will develop a tool far worse than this, or will take this development to a newer height, at which point it just creates an unsafe experience, and all of this spawning from their inability to take reasonable measures.

[Clockworks]

I would say it is 'working as intended'...

But, that 'intended' outcome isn't really a good one by any stretch of the imagination. A good blacklist system should not come at the expense of reasonable privacy measures, and as far as reasonable privacy measures goes, this one is acting like they were in a competition to see how bad they could make such a system.

There is 'benefit' to it, but IMO for me personally that benefit does not outweigh the risks involved with sending out an account ID in raw form.

I would say this thread is as a result of apathy more than anything else.. People are just coming to terms with the fact that the developers view player/online privacy as a serious afterthought. Which of all outcomes this is probably the worst.. Both for them and for the players.. Mainly because it shows people are just giving up, and then because the developers are probably going to get the brilliant idea that this is an acceptable/good implementation just because 'it works'. Eventually someone will develop a tool far worse than this, or will take this development to a newer height, at which point it just creates an unsafe experience, and all of this spawning from their inability to take reasonable measures.

Sure you can call it working as intended because technically it works, however its a disaster.

[Kaurhz]

Sure you can call it working as intended because technically it works, however its a disaster.

That's what I mean.. It's 'working as intended', if the definition of this is expressly based on it just 'working' and in a vacuum, without considering extrinsic factors like someone creating a tool that undermines the very system they opted to create.