Here's the Privacy Policy.

[Shibubs]

For anyone concerned about whether or not people are lying about them taking data....
Have a look for yourself. I'm neither confirming nor denying whats going on because some MMORPGs tend to do this as well but....

Tell me your thoughts?
https://protocol.unisdk.easebar.com/release/latest_v475.html

Source taken from the Google App page of their Privacy Policy concerning NetEase.
If you're suspicious of links generally speaking and for a PSA, use VirusTotal.

[The Chosen One]

What's your point?

[Shibubs]

Originally posted by The Chosen One:

What's your point?

Are you tone deaf?

[The Chosen One]

I'm just trying to understand what concerns do you have about it.

[HermitKermit]

" Personal Information we receive from you:

. . .first and last name, title, prefix, email address, telephone number, (instant) messaging account, postal address, date of birth, age, gender, country/region, and government-issued ID, such as passport information, as required by applicable laws for age verification and correction of personal information."

Just a snippet, @The Chosen One

[Jyria]

I've read the entire ToS/Eula agreement last beta and there is nothing weird about their ToS/Eula as in its not any more invasive than regular Eula and website cookies u visit daily.

[Demonsouls1993]

Originally posted by HermitKermit:

" Personal Information we receive from you:

. . .first and last name, title, prefix, email address, telephone number, (instant) messaging account, postal address, date of birth, age, gender, country/region, and government-issued ID, such as passport information, as required by applicable laws for age verification and correction of personal information."

Just a snippet, @The Chosen One

oh no all things that have been taken from us from many other places already oh the horror

[HermitKermit]

Originally posted by The Chosen One:

I'm just trying to understand what concerns do you have about it.

Reading comprehension and the capacity to mildly extrapolate simple thoughts from words would do a lot for you. Or, reading it at all.

[Jyria]

Originally posted by HermitKermit:

" Personal Information we receive from you:

. . .first and last name, title, prefix, email address, telephone number, (instant) messaging account, postal address, date of birth, age, gender, country/region, and government-issued ID, such as passport information, as required by applicable laws for age verification and correction of personal information."

Just a snippet, @The Chosen One

You'd be surprised that any company u ever spent money on will have this exact same info just from your payment information

[The Chosen One]

Originally posted by HermitKermit:

" Personal Information we receive from you:

. . .first and last name, title, prefix, email address, telephone number, (instant) messaging account, postal address, date of birth, age, gender, country/region, and government-issued ID, such as passport information, as required by applicable laws for age verification and correction of personal information."

Just a snippet, @The Chosen One

And what information did they asked to enter? In some countries gov ID is required. They will not ask you to enter it if it's no required. In fact I didn't entered any of this on steam. So why are you going crazy about privacy policy which is just a general thing to cover all the bases in all parts of the world?

[PenetrationStation]

NetEase collects the following specific categories of personal information:

1. **Name & Contact Details**:
- First and last name
- Title
- Prefix
- Email address
- Telephone number
- Messaging account
- Postal address
- Date of birth
- Age
- Gender
- Country/region
- Government-issued ID (e.g., passport information)

2. **Account Information**:
- Email address
- Username
- Password
- Security questions and answers
- Avatar

3. **Billing Information**:
- Debit or credit card details
- Bank account details
- Billing address

4. **User Content**:
- Reviews
- User-generated content (e.g., items and assets created or uploaded within games)
- Videos and posts on social media, blogs, and comment sections

5. **Gameplay Information**:
- Roles, heroes, character appearance, attributes (level, scores, experience points, skills)
- Progression and results
- Virtual currencies
- Item inventory
- Tasks and rewards
- Social connections within services
- Chat logs

6. **Preferences**:
- Language
- Interests
- Customer feedback/preferences
- Information from surveys (age, education background, occupation, interests)

7. **Marketing Data**:
- Newsletter, survey, and other marketing/advertising preferences
- Preferred methods of promotional communication

8. **Communication History**:
- Details of communications with NetEase
- Details of claims, complaints, and queries

9. **Transaction Information**:
- Details of products and services purchased
- Order and purchase history
- Transaction receipt number
- Purchase amount

10. **Social Media Information**:
- Name/nickname/username as it appears on social media account profile
- Profile pictures
- Social media account ID
- Associated email address
- Other social media profile information (e.g., friends lists)

11. **Location Information**:
- IP geolocation information
- Cell-ID
- Wi-Fi connection location

12. **Device Information**:
- IP address
- MAC address
- Device identifiers
- Device model
- Device operating systems
- Regional and language settings
- Internet service provider
- Screen resolution
- Frame rate
- Ping value
- Stack information (e.g., crash reports, core dumps)
- Server health indicators (CPU and memory usage, I/O usage, load average)
- Date and time stamps of actions (e.g., installing or using services)
- Advertising identifiers
- Events within services (logins, gameplay attempts)
- Events on third-party websites (engagement time, clicks and views of campaigns and communications materials)

13. **Game Account Information**:
- Email address
- Nickname/username
- Age
- Country/region
- Game account ID

14. **Third-Party Payment Information**:
- Hashed identifier of your account with the third-party payment processing service
- Country/region of payment origin

[HermitKermit]

Originally posted by Demonsouls1993:

Originally posted by HermitKermit:

" Personal Information we receive from you:

. . .first and last name, title, prefix, email address, telephone number, (instant) messaging account, postal address, date of birth, age, gender, country/region, and government-issued ID, such as passport information, as required by applicable laws for age verification and correction of personal information."

Just a snippet, @The Chosen One

oh no all things that have been taken from us from many other places already oh the horror

Complacency. I do not claim to have lawyers-tooth-and-combed everything I have ever agreed to in video game EULA's, but I will say that when i found out geo-location was added to path of righteous post-launch, I uninstalled.

My passport info and gov't ID. They need that too, of course.

[Jyria]

Originally posted by The Chosen One:

Originally posted by HermitKermit:

" Personal Information we receive from you:

. . .first and last name, title, prefix, email address, telephone number, (instant) messaging account, postal address, date of birth, age, gender, country/region, and government-issued ID, such as passport information, as required by applicable laws for age verification and correction of personal information."

Just a snippet, @The Chosen One

And what information did they asked to enter? In some countries gov ID is required. They will not ask you to enter it if it's no required. In fact I didn't entered any of this on steam. So why are you going crazy about privacy policy which is just a general thing to cover all the bases in all parts of the world?

I know the UK has some crazy laws regarding having to send your ID to some companies as verification. Youtube and Blizzard require a picture of your ID too as verification in some countries. Nothing out of the ordinary in this game ToS other than each countries own rules
In reallity the company is just following country orders

[Skdursh]

Peak clown world takes from all the absolute brainlets in here simping hard and acting personally offended that someone might not be 100% okay with having their privacy invaded for absolutely no justifiable reason. With such immense levels of TikTok brainrot it's no wonder why it is that the zoomers have a lower average IQ across the board than previous generations.

[The Chosen One]

Originally posted by Jyria:

Originally posted by The Chosen One:

And what information did they asked to enter? In some countries gov ID is required. They will not ask you to enter it if it's no required. In fact I didn't entered any of this on steam. So why are you going crazy about privacy policy which is just a general thing to cover all the bases in all parts of the world?

I know the UK has some crazy laws regarding having to send your ID to some companies as verification. Youtube and Blizzard require a picture of your ID too as verification in some countries. Nothing out of the ordinary in this game ToS other than each countries own rules
In reallity the company is just following country orders

Exactly. In Korea you need your ID to play games like League of Legends and if you get banned for cheating you literally can't play that game any more. And sharing account is identity theft.

[HermitKermit]

Originally posted by The Chosen One:

Originally posted by HermitKermit:

" Personal Information we receive from you:

. . .first and last name, title, prefix, email address, telephone number, (instant) messaging account, postal address, date of birth, age, gender, country/region, and government-issued ID, such as passport information, as required by applicable laws for age verification and correction of personal information."

Just a snippet, @The Chosen One

And what information did they asked to enter? In some countries gov ID is required. They will not ask you to enter it if it's no required. In fact I didn't entered any of this on steam. So why are you going crazy about privacy policy which is just a general thing to cover all the bases in all parts of the world?

I would not know what they asked to enter. I am not installing. What I am worrying over is what they intend to collect even-when-not-needed-by-covering-all-bases.

OP asked what we thought of it. You asked what he meant by asking what people thought of it. I replied coarsely, in tune with answering a question with another question.

Perhaps I should go to law school, or stay off of forums of whose understanding in which I do not have an advanced degree.

Steam itself has a lot of my info. But, the thing is, I trust them. And that is one reason we all use the platform. It is solid, reliable, and at least visibly trustworthy. I might just be overcritical. I made posts like these before, for single player games- and the result was the same.

"Everyone does this," the forums replied.