Have the privacy issues and in-game advertising been fixed?

[jtg1270]

I've held off on this game for a while due to all the negative reviews citing privacy and in-game advertising concerns. I am seeing the reviews have turned positive. Have these issues been corrected?

[Kotli]

Huh never seen any in game ads and I played since day one.

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Originally posted by jtg1270:

I've held off on this game for a while due to all the negative reviews citing privacy and in-game advertising concerns. I am seeing the reviews have turned positive. Have these issues been corrected?

You probably mean the previous launcher adv but they were their own adv. About the privacy issues, im not sure exactly what you mean again but if its the constantly pop-up window in the begining of each game asking for your consent to collect info no matter you refused it once already... im pretty sure they wont fix that lol btw, if you are US based you shouldnt worry too much about privacy cos you already have none

[Drenus]

he's likely refering to redshell, which never were a concern in the first place, but yes, they removed it due to whiners

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Originally posted by Drenus:

he's likely refering to redshell, which never were a concern in the first place, but yes, they removed it due to whiners

Given the fact that everyone is using windows 10 and google apps daily yeah, redshell should be your least concern no doubt

[Drenus]

i bet he has facebook, twitter, tumblre, snap.........insert service here, as well

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yup and the so called absolutelly privacy-oriented iphones who collects ONLY what they need and nothing more from your daily activities. also you can be sure that all of your biometrics stays encrypted ONLY on your phone because they say so altho no one can confirm it but you can trust them completely

[jtg1270]

Originally posted by Drenus:

i bet he has facebook, twitter, tumblre, snap.........insert service here, as well:♥♥♥♥:

If you look back at earlier reviews of this game, almost everyone was complaining about the terms of a EULA where they were capturing way more info than is typically done. There was also some talk of unskippable advertisements when you launched the game.

[Drenus]

ah yes, the bandwagon hate train card, it doesn't really work tho

there was, and still isn't, anything wrong with redshell

As for advertisements, you do realise they're a company, and its in a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ launcher that takes you 1 second to click past

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Originally posted by jtg1270:

Originally posted by Drenus:

i bet he has facebook, twitter, tumblre, snap.........insert service here, as well:♥♥♥♥:

If you look back at earlier reviews of this game, almost everyone was complaining about the terms of a EULA where they were capturing way more info than is typically done. There was also some talk of unskippable advertisements when you launched the game.

you can play the game in offline mode only bro

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Originally posted by Drenus:

ah yes, the bandwagon hate train card, it doesn't really work tho

there was, and still isn't, anything wrong with redshell

As for advertisements, you do realise they're a company, and its in a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ launcher that takes you 1 second to click past

They've made probably from 500 to 700mill $ from civ6 alone i think thats more than enough money from only one title and no need for further greed. I just started the game in offline mode as well after 1 month of inactivity and the game crashed after 10min and i dont have installed the new frontier pass at all

[UnholySpaniard]

Has anyone checked their Firewall or DNS queries when playing multiplayer? Had over 300 logged queries to "metrics.ol.epicgames.com" on my CIV6 multiplayer session yesterday.

Not sure why it's connecting with my preferences for EOS capturing all set to 0.

Saw someone else post on the game "Satisfactory" that this metric collection service was running when it wasn't supposed to, granted they had arguments to disable it on launch, and that they resolved it in a patch.

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Well yeah everyone is losing it and snooping like mad. probably they are seeing the trumpet mandate coming to an end and trying to get whatever they can till then lmao

[Das Capitolin]

3000+ hours, and I have never once seen an ad in this game.
Also, "Red Shell" was discontinued a month after it was added a few years back. https://www.pcgamesn.com/civilization-6/civ-6-red-shell

[UnholySpaniard]

Originally posted by Das Capitolin:

3000+ hours, and I have never once seen an ad in this game.
Also, "Red Shell" was discontinued a month after it was added a few years back. https://www.pcgamesn.com/civilization-6/civ-6-red-shell

Have you ever checked your DNS queries while playing? Especially on multiplayer. In 9hrs I had 440 events from 2 domains below, so 1.27 queries every minute? (This is not related to Red Shell)

1) On launcher startup, the call is established to EpicGames API (for EOS); Also has a frequency of querying every 6m
2) During multiplayer, every 2m the metric.ol.epicgames domain is being queried

There is no option in-game or with launcher to opt out, however all my EOS_Logging settings from EOSOptions.txt are disabled / set to 0. My assumption is that it just suppresses logging to my local machine rather than prevent it from running entirely, which is what I'd want to achieve.

I've now blocked the domains at my pi-hole so it will be interesting to see what happens in Multiplayer...

api.epicgames.dev - Civ 6 Gamer Launcher sets EpicGames API; 6m intervals
metrics.ol.epicgames.com - 2m intervals to EpicGames (google their API for what EOS can retrieve; It's scary)
tracking.epicgames.com - Tracking domain when visiting their website to read API documentation; Was automatically blocked by pi-hole

[Lemurian1972]

Originally posted by jtg1270:

If you look back at earlier reviews of this game, almost everyone was complaining about the terms of a EULA where they were capturing way more info than is typically done. There was also some talk of unskippable advertisements when you launched the game.

We know (just imagine what these forums would have been like around that time). What people are telling you is most of those complaints were overblown and worthless. The problems they felt the need to write bad reviews about never materialized, or were a joke.

I hate the rush for every game company to make their own launcher as much as the next gamer, but to complain about them posting updates about their own games and call it 'advertising' is silly.