How is anyone supposed to trust your observations of Overwolf, when the receipts you are asking for proof of ads are in front of your face in the app itself and you act like it is not there? When you’re willing to let OW milk you for a premium sub? When you expose your own distrust of OW, using the sandbox and spybot? No one else is doubting how OW monetizes addons via data mining, ads & subs - so if that is not how OW plans to make money off buying curseforge; Where are your receipts of an alternate business plan? You know full well I am not allowed to include links in my post.
You are worse than a paid shill, because you’re so ready and willing to bend over for Overwolf to get those addons. You’re so desperate to justify OW, rather than just admit you are an immoral person who cares more for your individual comfort, than your fellow players and would rather support corporate greed. I can only hope, but doubt that you are in the minority. You and devs that post their addons with Overwolf, are why shady companies like this persist.
How is anyone supposed to give you the evidence of technical details of something that has been exposed to not even be implemented yet in the beta version without being an employee of OW, who would not, unless they wanted to be fired?
Overwolf admits it collects data. There’s an article on medium you can find.
You can see the receipts for yourself by reading more of this thread and with a basic web search that will reveal accounts on r/security or r/overwolf regarding data collection, how they serve ads, malware, along with plenty of other places, including people testifying in this thread to their personal experiences with Overwolf. I know it is asking a lot, when we are talking about people who will not take the 10 minutes or less to download, and bundle the extract, copy. paste and overwrite for approx. 200 addons (a lot less time, since they do not usually all require simultaenous updates). If one’s hardware or connection slows that down, then again asking a lot of those who cannot think of a productive way to use that time multitasking, so the time is not wasted. I am going to trust people who just want to enjoy the game and addons that are open source freeware, freely over Overwolf corporation, any day. The burden of proof is on Overwolf and its codependent supporters, who has already lost trust due to their shady practices and not the player bases who’ve been burned by them already.
Overwolf can claim “false positives” about malware, all they want. If OW did not force their client in exchange for addon access and let someone actually use the website, then the AV’s (Anti Virus) would not be generating these “false positives” in the first place. There is an increased risk that is unnecessary. You know it, which is why you used a sandbox and anti-malware to even try the Beta. (Although, the other addon managers would be able to continue scraping site getting around OW). If you take the time to read, you’ll see some were definitely not false positives.
No time to avoid using Overwolf, yet you mysteriously have enough time for lengthy discussion here in support of a greedy corporation with a bad reputation, rather than properly researching for yourself, whether it deserves said rep.
The receipt is in the beta itself, where they have not implemented the ad features that are known for performance hits. They don’t trust the public to see what they’re going to do with these ads.
That ad free paywall for free content is the 1st complaint against.
- overlays are disabled by default
You have the app; you tell me what kind of overlay that setting is referring to specifically. A setting for one kind of overlay, does not mean there is not still a lack of setting for another kind of overlay that OW have been called out for implementing in the past.
I’m very particular about what clients I install on my systems. I didn’t like Twitch, either. How about you show me the receipts that prove the multitudes unhappy with Overwolf are liars, first?
I know the server and bandwidth are not free. Reasonable content without the reputation and obvious greed is king ethos and malware history of Overwolf, I give my custom to, time and again.
I’ve been in the situation before where my game (or something else) was sold out to a company of red flags and it has not worked out, in my experience. I’d love for “this time” to be wrong and things to get better, but experience has yet to yield even 1 anecdotal example for me to cling to hope.
The only thing that comes close to mind is Two Point Hospital, but that’s not a case where bad company bought out bullfrog and turned out to be better. That’s the case where the original creative team started a new company and revived it. That’s why it’s succeeded, where the knock offs freemium failed. Kind of like, how Dreamhaven is the true Blizzard and Acti-B isn’t it any more.
