If i knew that this game was using EOS in the first place, i probably wouldn't bother making this thread in the first place because like you said it would mean that it was just an industry standard practice which i have stated in quite a few replies already, is something not one me but quite a few others were unaware of but despite that some here keep saying the same stuff and not bothering to read it.
Idk but for this one at least, its been found that because the multiplayer uses EOS, thats why it sends data to epic games.
That's the only reason this happens in any game that does this. A whole lot of fear mongering over nothing.
There's no fear mongering. There's reason to suspect them if we hadn't known it was for EoS. Are you even aware what sort of methods epic used to use to gather data of STEAM users? Just straight up dismissing stuff like that doesn't help the discussion.
You made a post without having all of the info. If you had info that this was bad for the end user and not standard then go ahead. As it stands all you did was post data you didn't understand.
Read the article you posted. There's nothing malicious there and Epic immediately responded saying they were fixing the problem. I'm all for posting stuff like this when data is being collected in a malicious way but posting false alarm stuff with data you don't understand like what this thread is, is just plain fear mongering.
I made the thread with all the information about this certain matter with respect to what the user talked about and termed it as a rumor that cannot be authenticated by the average person or by me because i don't understand it well enough. It was posted for discussion for the people who do actually understand this sort of stuff or know about the situation better than me and they did later tell that its due to Epic Online Services which explains why its sending data to epic too other than the usual feedback data that goes to the devs. At a glance it was suspicious enough so i posted it here so it could get more attention.
Funny thing is i did do a 'quick google' to see what it might be or after i posted the thread when people started saying that it might or it DOES use EOS or Epic online services and........ i couldn't find anything until i googled it again and had to use the PCgaming wikia linked way below the other results to find that it supported epic online services for MP, mentioned somewhere in the details. Surprisingly there's barely information about it on google believe it or not.
"Nothing malicious"? Taking data without permission (i.e. stealing) is textbook definition of acting maliciously. They even admitted this was intentional and not a mistake.
Not sure but we do now know that it uses EOS which is why it was sending data to epic. Just because Unreal engine was being used doesn't make it so that it sends steam data to epic. Google doesn't even have info on it using EOS aside from the PCgamingwikia.
