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The Fate Of BF3′s In-Game Server Browser

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This story is a little surprising. BF3 Blog have done the legwork on this: first they spotted that Battlefield 3 on the PS3 and 360 is going to have an in-game server browser for multiplayer game-finding. Good for them. However, where this story turns sour is the news that the PC version will not have any in-game server browser, and to find a multiplayer game you have to exit the game or Alt-Tab out of it, and use the “Battlelog” application to launch games. Senior Gameplay Designer Alan Kertz has been assuring everyone that the process is relatively smooth, but why? And, if it has to be in another app, why isn’t there a server browser in Origin’s overlay? Why is there another system to complicate things? Ah, of course, because Battelog wants to be the free equivalent of Activision’s Elite thingum, with all that social and achievement stuff that you play games for.

Tune in next week for: mouse controls only on the PS3?!

2 steps forward, 3 steps back

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EA’s Origin EULA Proves Even More Sinister

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As spotted by the canny denizens of the Escapist forum, there is a quite extraordinary clause in the EULA of EA’s new game service, Origin. One that may well make you think twice about letting the software on your PC. Under the title of “Consent to Collection and Use of Data”, the clause states that by installing Origin you are giving EA permission to “collect, use, store and transmit technical and related information that identifies your computer, operating system, Application usage (including but not limited to successful installation and/or removal), software, software usage and peripheral hardware.”

Which is to say, if you want to play Battlefield 3, or any other game that will require Origin to run, you’re going to have to agree to that.

The full clause reads,

2. Consent to Collection and Use of Data.

You agree that EA may collect, use, store and transmit technical and related information that identifies your computer (including the Internet Protocol Address), operating system, Application usage (including but not limited to successful installation and/or removal), software, software usage and peripheral hardware, that may be gathered periodically to facilitate the provision of software updates, dynamically served content, product support and other services to you, including online services. EA may also use this information combined with personal information for marketing purposes and to improve our products and services. We may also share that data with our third party service providers in a form that does not personally identify you. IF YOU DO NOT WANT EA TO COLLECT, USE, STORE, TRANSMIT OR DISPLAY THE DATA DESCRIBED IN THIS SECTION, PLEASE DO NOT INSTALL OR USE THE APPLICATION. This and all other data provided to EA and/or collected by EA in connection with your installation and use of this Application is collected, used, stored and transmitted in accordance with EA’s Privacy Policy located at www.ea.com. To the extent that anything in this section conflicts with the terms of EA’s Privacy Policy, the terms of the Privacy Policy shall control.

It’s not unusual for such software to collect information from your computer relating to itself, and it’s not unknown that using that software means you agree to this information being distributed anonymously to third parties. Steam, for instance, warns that it will,

“store information on a user’s hard drive that is used in conjunction with online play of Valve products. This includes a unique authorization key or CD-Key that is either entered by the user or downloaded automatically during product registration. This authorization key is used to identify a user as valid and allow access to Valve’s products. Information regarding Steam billing, your Steam account, your Internet connection and the Valve software installed on your computer are uploaded to the server in connection with your use of Steam and Valve software.”

But there’s a significant difference. Valve’s policy is self-restricted to anything on your PC directly relating to its own products. EA’s is so broad that it gives the publisher permission to scan your entire hard drive, and report back absolutely anything you may have installed, and indeed when you may use it, and then pass that information on the third parties.

Now, they may well mean for this clause to provide them the same opportunities as Valve’s and others’, intending only to allow information about the use of Origin, and Origin-run software, to be fed back to their sinister super-computers. It could simply be in place to provide a better service for Origin customers. But crucially, that’s absolutely not what you’re agreeing to when you absently click “Agree” during the install. What you’re agreeing to is for EA to have a free pass to scan your PC and gather absolutely anything it wants.

And then even more creepily, they say they intend to take such information, combine it with personal information about you, and use it to advertise directly to you. However, when selling on this free-for-all on your computer’s contents, they’ll at least remove personally identifying information. Gosh, thanks.

It strikes us as beyond acceptable. And so much more serious now that EA has made its intentions clear to make so many of their games exclusively delivered through Origin. Were there a choice about what you’d use to play Battlefield 3, Mass Effect 3, etc, then gamers could opt out of allowing Origin on their systems while such a policy is in place. But instead it’s a case of agree to such remarkable terms, or don’t play their games at all.

We’ve contacted EA to ask if they understand gamers’ shock at this policy, and to find out if there is any chance of its being revoked, or heavily re-worded. This isn’t an issue over publishers having their own distribution services, and Origin works fine for me. But when you’re asked to give up such fundamental personal information to be able to use it, and when it’s the only option to play games, this becomes an extremely serious matter.

This is of course the second time the wording of Origin’s EULA has caused concern, with previous worries that they were reserving the right to delete accounts after two years of inactivity, which they’ve since put at rest. We’ll let you know as soon as we hear anything back from EA.

Edit: Some have pointed out that similar clauses have been in previous EA EULAs. Two things: Firstly, often it was optional whether you played those games online, and as such sent such data. Secondly, that doesn’t make it okay! It’s still an enormous violation of privacy that deserves being addressed.

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A DICE colocou na passada Quinta-feira no blog oficial da série Battlefield, informações detalhadas sobre os cinco modos multiplayer que estarão presentes em Battlefield 3 quando este for lançado.

Battlefield 3 traz de volta Conquest e Rush, dois modos multiplayer que já clássicos da série Battlefield, assim como Rush, um modo que se fez a sua primeira aparência em Battlefield: Bad Company. Team Deathmatch, um modo que apesar de ser muito utilizado em jogos FPS marca a sua estreia na série Battlefield juntamente com o modo Squad Deathmatch, prometem trazer intensos combates entre esquadrões de infataria e veículos de guerra. 9 enormes mapas vão receber os 5 modos multiplayer, o que significa que os jogadores vão poder desfrutar de 45 experiências diferentes.

Team Deathmatch

Disponibilidade: Todos os mapas (9)

Jogadores: 24 (12 vs. 12)

Foco: Combate de infantaria por equipas

Objectivo: Eliminar o número definido de combatentes inimigos

Vitória: A equipa que atingir o número de mortes definido em primeiro lugar é declarada vencedora

Squad Deathmatch

Disponibilidade: Todos os mapas (9)

Jogadores: 16 (4 equipas de 4)

Foco: Combate de infantaria por equipas

Objectivo: Eliminar o número definido de combatentes inimigos

Vitória: A equipa que atingir o número de mortes definido em primeiro lugar é declarada vencedora

Rush

Disponibilidade: Todos os mapas (9)

Jogadores: 24/32 (Consolas/PC)

Foco: Combates baseados em objectivos

Objectivo: Atacar/defendes estações M-COM

Vitória: Destruir todas as estações M-COM / Esgotar os bilhetes dos atacantes (Atacantes/Defesas)

Squad Rush

Disponibilidade: Todos os mapas (9)

Jogadores: 8 (4 vs. 4)

Foco: Combates por equipas baseados em objectivos

Goal: Attack/defend M-COM stations

Objectivo: Atacar/defendes estações M-COM

Vitória: Destruir todas as estações M-COM / Esgotar os bilhetes dos atacantes (Atacantes/Defesas)

Conquest

Disponibilidade: Todos os mapas (9)

Jogadores: 24/32 ou 64 (Consolas/PC)

Foco: Combates baseados em objectivos

Objectivo: Capturar e manter bandeiras

Vitória: Esgotar os bilhetes dos adversários

Pode consultar a descrição de cada um dos modos multiplayer em http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/battlefield_bad_company/archive/2011/09/15/battleblog-11-every-battlefield-3-multiplayer-game-mode-explained.aspx.

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Fixe... é que não tenho pachorra para ir jogar isto com os colados online.

O Bad Company 2, vou jogando online de vez em quando.

Se levares na desportiva, os colados passam despercebidos. Odeio são o chats... tanta criancinha...

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Requerimentos

derivação masc. pl. de requerer

(latim vulgar requaero, -ere, do latim requiro, -ere, procurar, rebuscar, buscar)

v. tr.

1. Dirigir petição oficial a; solicitar, pedir, reclamar por meio de requerimento.

2. Exigir; determinar; precisar.

3. Merecer, ser digno de.

4. Exigir com intimativa, reclamar.

5. Chamar por, reclamar a presença de.

6. Requestar.

7. [Direito] Pedir judicialmente.

É requisitos pá! harhar.gif

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É oficial... A beta começa dia 29/09/2011 ou seja a malta que fez pre-order na origin e/ou comprou o MOH em pre-order começa a jogar dia 27. Nice!

http://www.battlefie...lefield3/1/beta

Só para quem comprou na Origin ou tb para quem comprou a key outro site???

A beta em si acho que é open beta... Ter pré-acesso à beta 2 dias antes é que é só para quem fez (ou vai fazer até 25/9/11 penso) pre-order na Origin ou comprou a limited edition do Medal of Honor o ano passado.

Tudo o resto só dia 29 é que pode aceder à beta.

Fixe... é que não tenho pachorra para ir jogar isto com os colados online.

O Bad Company 2, vou jogando online de vez em quando.

Se levares na desportiva, os colados passam despercebidos. Odeio são o chats... tanta criancinha...

Rule #1 in online gaming... Nunca olhar para o chat ingame! É sempre só merda! :-..

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EA Inserts Anti-Lawsuit Language Into New User Agreement

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Following the lead of Sony, which recently inserted a clause into its terms of service agreement that require gamers to waive their right to participate in a class action lawsuit against the company, Electronic Arts has added similar language to its end user license agreement.

The agreement must be signed to participate in features like Madden and FIFA online play, as well as EA's Origin PC service.

Here's the language from the agreement:

"By accepting these terms, you and EA expressly waive the right to a trial by jury or to participate in a class action.

YOU UNDERSTAND THAT BY THIS PROVISION, YOU AND EA ARE FOREGOING THE RIGHT TO SUE IN COURT AND HAVE A JURY TRIAL.

YOU AND EA AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN YOUR OR ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING."

You can opt out of the service by mailed letter, but there is a 30 day window -- in which case, considering the new terms of service were instituted on the 25th of August, you're pretty much out of time.

Whether these agreements could hold up in court in in question, but in any case it's an unprecedented attack on the legal rights of gamers and consumers.

Para quem não sabia fica aí.

Mas para esclarecer, os países membros da UE (entre outros) estão isentos desta parte da EULA.

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