Oh it definitely does have an effect. But I am more talking big picture, how companies try to shift the responsibility on to the little person.
While yes, not having plastic straws dumped in the wild is a good thing. The amount of difference it (paper straws instead of plastic straws) will make on global trash being dumped in the wild is minimal compared to what these major corporations do every day.
But we get fed through the media, etc. That we (the individual consumers) need to do our part. And the people (the corporations) doing the largest percentage of the harm get off pretty blameless. In the general public.
Regarding the OP, I agree that all third-party data collection/presentation of WoW activities should be opt-in only instead of opt-out only. Iād also be OK with Blizzard allowing players to hide nearly all of their character-specific or account-specific info (including combat logs and boss drops) from others.
Doing so would probably mean that those players would find it nearly impossible to be accepted into manually created groups, but many who only use LFD/LFR for group content could live with that. I wouldnāt have even known these third-party sites existed if I had not read about them here on GD.
Um. This might be difficult to hear but, those players arenāt even the only ones. Every boss you kill, every dungeon you do, every piece of content you clear, every arena you win or lose is all logged and uploaded to simple things. Even the WoW website. WoW is incredibly information driven.
like how often do any of you guys get bickered to about your logs thereās no way this occurs on a regular basis enough to warrant a change to the system.
It was really likely just a tool to help people that are trying to maximize their gameplay which got twisted into a measuring stick used against others. It sucks but this is how a lot of these people are.
Yes, I knew that, but I didnāt realize that people were actually recording those logs and uploading them to third-party sites as some kind of permanent record until long after I started playing. I used to think that whatever happened in instanced content (whether good or bad) went away entirely once the group disbanded, giving players a fresh start each time.
Once I learned about involuntary logging and game streaming to mass audiences, I went from running group content very regularly to running it the absolute minimum required to complete questlines (or not at all). Itās like finding out that you can no longer play a friendly game of amateur basketball in your driveway without someone secretly recording it and uploading it to Youtube to be evaluated by strangers.
Considering that I have avoided group content as much as possible for the past few expansions, especially the kind with manual grouping, it never has an occasion to come up. But for me itās the principle of being recorded all of the time when you donāt want to be. I hate that kind of thing in real life, too.
yea but like logs arenāt intrusive in any way lol canāt really use the comparison to someone recording u playing basketball lol
just donāt think this happens enough to even warrant a post about. like i HIGHLY doubt the content youāre clearing requires someone checking logs because it barely does for me.
Itās just paranoia. Like, my aunt wonāt order anything online because she heard about āidentity theftā and KNOWS for a fact that all the identity thieves are just waiting to pounce and steal everything she has (which isnāt much).
This has never been the case. We have always had a win / loss record for arena to establish some kind of history. We have always had some kind of armory related tracking for the sake of figuring out what dungeons were done by who for expansions at this point. We have had raid logging for expansions upon expansions.
Why would any of this matter? Who cares? I live in NYC, Iām sure Iāve walked by news cameras before which picked me up walking to my local store, or walking throughout the city. None of this should matter. This feels overly paranoid. And honestly, a bit like apples and oranges. Someone recording you as your person doing things in your personal life is not the same thing as numbers on a screen revolving around your dps in a given dungeon.
