[quote who="MrStarTrek" reply="68" id="3854925"] Quoting SDF-7, reply 61 Except a store doesn't get to follow me home, rifle through all of my financial papers and spy on what I'm doing. An application arbitrarily installed on my computer where my files are carries that risk. So I have to trust said application, which impl
You're going to have to show me where I did so. Closest I can see is that I pointed out that *any* application running on my computer is a security risk, unlike "going to a store". I don't see where that's spreading "rumor and accusations", it is a known fact. That I include Epic in the "unvetted and therefore untrusted" list is my decision, not "spreading paranoia".
It isn't a conspiracy theory to say I don't trust software by major companies (including Epic) by default. End users being the product for our ad-based culture is a known thing, after all. I don't run BattleNet either (having zero interest in StarCraft or whatever, so it never really came up) -- and would again think long and hard before trusting their launcher. No idea why you call that "hypocrisy" -- I tolerate Steam only because it has earned a modicum of trust over the years. The
Except a store doesn't get to follow me home, rifle through all of my financial papers and spy on what I'm doing. An application arbitrarily installed on my computer where my files are carries that risk. So I have to trust said application, which implies trusting its authors / publishers. And, as mentioned before -- I do not trust Epic. Steam has earned some trust and is tolerated (but kept an eye on as best I can). I'd much rather buy direct from Stardock as mentioned and forget the whole la
Yeah, sorry to hear Brad's thinking on this one. As someone who has bought games from Stardock since the Warp days, I certainly would be interested in IV (even though I just never seemed to get into 3 that well, but I think that's more on me... just want more of an Explorer side to 4X these days). But it isn't another launcher or anything -- it is trust. And I do not trust Epic or Tencent at all. Besides the Chinese connections, their business messaging screams that we (the players) are the p
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