[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?

[lblume]

For me at least, no. Making money by training a model from user data on such a game seems like a perfectly fine thing to do.