BF 2142 ships with Spyware!

[doobiwan]

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/centipe...are-207955.php

I think I'll be holding off on 2142 for now . . .

[Bass]

Woah !! That doesn't look good !

Will hopefully be able to find a way to bypass it .... if it's true ..

[rainy]

One will have to skip a lot of games in the future. This is just the beginning.

Sometimes I think that flooding theses spyware guys with information is better than trying to protect yourself. Because an overload of information will make the system ineffective, as they are never able to process it all.

[stoke]

as they are never able to process it all

... me 's at google ...
Somebody said the same thing about google's ability to index the internet.

This is definately not playing the ball game. Release the game for free if you're going to shove adverts down our throats.

[doobiwan]

I was tentatively planning to order it but definitely not now. Not unless they pull this, it absurd.

[rainy]

Who says Google can process it all?

[gus]

This is confirmed by the Gamespot review: (www.gamespot.com)
"On a peculiar note, even though the world is ending in 2142, it appears that advertising will still be around. Battlefield 2142 features in-game ads, though we didn't get to see them firsthand during our testing. Still, there is a printed disclaimer that comes with the game telling you that Battlefield 2142 will analyze certain "advertising data" on your machine to determine what ads to display to you. Ironically, EA says that if you don't want your data shared with its advertising partner then "do not install or play the software on any platform that is used to connect to the Internet." But that would pretty much defeat the purpose of playing Battlefield 2142, wouldn't it? Of course, you could always play single-player against the artificial intelligence, though the AI won't be mistaken for human opponents any time soon, and the single-player is still limited to 16-player maps. Still, this is an example of things to come, as we begin to see dynamic in-game ads appear in more and more games."

I am not happy about this. Some days I wonder why I buy EA games. Sigh.

[TG]

It shouldn't be too long before an enterprising individual figures out how to block it or strip it from the game.

This kind of thing really pisses me off

[FeralBanana]

@TG: I HOPE they come up with that soon...

I mean if you can mod games, I'm sure people playing around with that kinda stuff will be able to stop em..

I really hope so coz this is KAK...

[gus]

Punkbuster might throw a spanner in the works of attempts to divert this traffic.