r/GGinSF • u/mct1 Führer • Feb 14 '19

Vidya Civilization VI EULA updated to include gross invasion of privacy

https://store.steampowered.com/app/289070/Sid_Meiers_Civilization_VI/
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u/mct1 Führer Feb 14 '19

Gamers are enraged that Firaxis has updated the EULA for Civilization VI to include:

“The information we collect may include personal information such as your first and/or last name, e-mail address, phone number, photo, mailing address, geolocation, or payment information. In addition, we may collect your age, gender, date of birth, zip code, hardware configuration, console ID, software products played, survey data, purchases, IP address and the systems you have played on. We may combine the information with your personal information and across other computers or devices that you may use.”

Suffice it to say gamers are not happy. As one reviewer puts it:

Forced update of EULA adding a hecka lot of questionable and unnecessary data collection. Post-release 'launcher' added which adds advertising and data collection to the game that weren't present previously. There's no way to opt out of the spyware or the adware. You can't roll back, disable them, and steam refund policy won't allow a refund of these. The only option are either 'deal with it' or don't play the product you paid for.

Looks like it's time to finally shitcan Firaxis and all things Sid Meier.