3DS is Watching You: Activity-Logging and Anti-Piracy Features

[Lunar Templar]

*reads all 11 pages* wow, that was a waste of
time ... paranoid lot aren't you

i highly doubt its gonna be as bad as people are thinking, people are again, freaking out and over reacting, (like they do on FOX 'news')without seeing it in practice/getting they're hands on it,
fun fact i picked up:: things don't always work out as bad is it sound at first

Yes, I am going to see benefit from my participation. In Nintendo and other companies releasing more games I enjoy. I don't care how fast a game's price drops. I care about them using that information to release more games that I will actually want to play.

Which you will buy and they will make more money, see why this market research is so valuable?

the down side is?
If a company uses marketing info to make a product that, according to said info, is highly desirable then they will not only make money, but have the side effect of a pleased costumer base, which will in-turn result in said costumers returning for other products

*gasp* not that, heaven forbid a company make money from a product made to please they're costumers -.-

The down side is a compromise of privacy and consumer rights. I don't want to be spied on to improve Nintendos bottom line and I am not so addicted to video games that I would give up anything to help them keep them coming.

It's amazing that so many people are willing to pay to be monitored.

news flash
YOUR BEING MONITORED NOW, and will be when you go online with what ever system you own, an ya paid for that, get over it -.-

Really? What systems keep a log of my activities and send it to a corporation to see if I am a pirate?

none i can think of off hand, and since I'm not a pirate, I'm not inclined to look it up, fun part about not being a criminal crap like this doesn't bother me, though watching people who do have reason to be worried amuses me > greatly amuses me

So you're basically talking out of your ass then?

apart from the part where it doesn't bother me and it's not gonna effect where or not i get a 3DS

pretty much flipping him shit, since he's being so vocal about it.
but really, people are forgetting, the reason this monitoring system exists is due to the rampant piracy. people can complain about all they want, but since no one is/can doing anything to actually fix it, suck it up and deal with it, don't like it, don't buy it, period since these kinda things aren't going away, and will more then like get worse before they get better

Piracy is the scapegoat. If Nintendo could have controlled how you play the NES, they would have.

scapegoat or not, you fail to see it is a real problem, and act like this is new, face book has issues with spying, seems like every other week, god knows what Google has on us, pretty much what ever 'privacy' you think you're losing, was already lost some where else, and you know it

and they did try, remember the game genie? they lost then cause there's nothing illegal about a cheat device (mildly ironic if you think about it XD)

 

[Aris Khandr]

Why shouldn't they use the technology that exists to get direct feedback from their customers? How does it hurt you in any way? Are you so embarassed that someone at Nintendo might know you play Captain Fuzzy Bunny and the Slippers of Eternal Naptime? You seem thoroughly pissed off about something that cannot actually hurt you in any way.

 

[Tiswas]

Considering the Kinect records you when you have it set up this isn't nearly as bad.

Nintendo can see how many steps (or lack-of) I take for all I care.

 

[IvoryTowerGamer]

*reads all 11 pages* wow, that was a waste of time ... paranoid lot aren't you

i highly doubt its gonna be as bad as people are thinking, people are again, freaking out and over reacting, (like they do on FOX 'news')without seeing it in practice/getting they're hands on it,
fun fact i picked up:: things don't always work out as bad is it sound at first

Yes, I am going to see benefit from my participation. In Nintendo and other companies releasing more games I enjoy. I don't care how fast a game's price drops. I care about them using that information to release more games that I will actually want to play.

Which you will buy and they will make more money, see why this market research is so valuable?

the down side is?
If a company uses marketing info to make a product that, according to said info, is highly desirable then they will not only make money, but have the side effect of a pleased costumer base, which will in-turn result in said costumers returning for other products

*gasp* not that, heaven forbid a company make money from a product made to please they're costumers -.-

The down side is a compromise of privacy and consumer rights. I don't want to be spied on to improve Nintendos bottom line and I am not so addicted to video games that I would give up anything to help them keep them coming.

It's amazing that so many people are willing to pay to be monitored.

news flash
YOUR BEING MONITORED NOW, and will be when you go online with what ever system you own, an ya paid for that, get over it -.-

Really? What systems keep a log of my activities and send it to a corporation to see if I am a pirate?

None, not even the 3DS does this. Read the OP again. The possibility that something might happen is not the same as happening.

Also, for the record, all current gen systems keep logs of what you do in the game. Some disguise this as "achievements", but developers still use that information.

 

[Aris Khandr]

Why shouldn't they use the technology that exists to get direct feedback from their customers? How does it hurt you in any way? Are you so embarassed that someone at Nintendo might know you play Captain Fuzzy Bunny and the Slippers of Eternal Naptime? You seem thoroughly pissed off about something that cannot actually hurt you in any way.

I have already answered this.

You've answered it, but offered nothing but "How dare they use technology to get exact information for free when they used to have to pay someone to get much less specific info" or "they're spying on me!!!!1111oneoneone". Except, you know, they aren't. No more so than the Escapist is spying on you every time they award you a badge, or Microsoft is spying on you every time you unlock an achievement. You've managed to work yourself into some sort of paranoid, anti-corporate frenzy, convinced that anyone in the gaming business is out to abuse you in any way they can. And why? Because they think it's funny? Because they're secretly conspiring to make people hate them? What, exactly, is this devious plan you're so afraid of?