[anticorporate]

> I hope the author is collecting juicy analytics.

I hope they're not. Can't we have a few things in this world that are just fun without going and sticking surveillance on them?

[helle253]

'analytics' and 'surveillance' are not the same thing

trying to understand player behavior in the context of a board or video game (though there is some overlap!) is not the same as trying to understand user behavior in the context of social media or purchasing behavior - the data of both of which derive their value from being sold to THIRD PARTIES as a commodity.

being able to tune a fun little video game is not the same thing at all

[badtuple]

Does your opinion change if they use it to train a commercial program to do a similar task?

[BloodyIron]

Collecting analytics like this is effectively the same as play-testing physical board games in-development. People play a game, information is gathered, and the game is tuned in response to that. If zero information were ever gathered, games could not be balanced or tuned for other things like unforeseen problems.

Please, show me a piece of software, or game, that is perfect the first time it is made.

[wat10000]

It's effectively the same, except people volunteer or are paid to play test.

This whole industry really needs a lesson on consent.

[snackdex]

if the analytics lead to an actual game on steam im down

[butlike]

You could just package an arbitrary 100 levels, let the player play them in any order, then give rewards for 10, 20, 30, 40, etc. levels completed/mastered.

[alpha-male-swe]

yeah man what a horrible world we live in man. thats so profound of you to say, truly. well said man