Quote (Quant @ Dec 2 2020 11:10pm)
Is it so unbelievable that a gaming company tracks some kind of unique identifier on your computer?
To me, I always assume that that's the very least these companies do considering how important big data is. Just look at your panopticlick browser fingerprint, and thats with just your browser.
If GGG wanted to, they would be able to ban 90-95% of jspers with certainty. If you don't believe me, then look up what happened on the MTG forums here with mtgo tix.
Unless you are 28 years or older who has tracked how widely data monitoring has gotten in the past decade, have extensive experience with big data and/or know how digital companies operate, you should not be speaking with any degree of certainty.
Companies track this mostly only in FPS games, as a way to stop a majority of ignorant cheaters, and most of the time, it is the ANTICHEAT that hwid bans, IE battleye bans you globally that has nothing to do with the developer, and the information isn't even relayed to the dev.
Sometimes there is in-house tracking, but this is for big companies for one, and two, even big bot farms aren't getting hwid banned, so if they are for whatever reason tracking it, they aren't using the information at all.
Considering they don't hwid ban, and never have, I can say with certainty they aren't doing anything with the data they have IF they even track it (small indie company btw), so fuck off with your "unless you're" bullshit, thanks.
This post was edited by ISellLeagueBoosts on Dec 2 2020 11:39pm