Virtual Adept

Quoting YouNEWB about EA’s latest online shooter, Battlefield 2142:

When you open the box, a big slip of paper falls out first, preceeding any discs or manuals. The slip of paper says, essentially, that 2142 includes monitoring software which runs while your computer is online, and records “anonymous” information like your IP address, surfing habits (probably via cookie scans), and other “computing habits” in order to report this information back to ad companies and ad servers, which generates in-game ads.

This is an outrage. I can’t believe anyone will sit down for this. I hope this game tanks and tanks badly, sending a message to those asshats that we’re not putting up with this shit. This makes me want to start a bonfire and toss every EA game I ever bought into it. I feel ashamed of having bought Burnout Revenge recently.

Oh well, now is the time to change. I won’t be buying any more EA games until they remove this from Battlefield 2142 and make a public apology, and make a public promise never to use spyware in any of their products ever again. I doubt that will happen, considering how little EA respect’s gamer’s privacy on Xbox Live. Gamers, do not give up your rights. You can live without this game, there is no way one game is worth handing over your life’s details to EA.