What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.
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So...if Steam is running in a Flatpak, and Borderlands is launched from Steam, how much can they even see...really?
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 06:45 last edited byThey know I use Linux and that means they know too much
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Precise location information? Wtf for?
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 06:46 last edited by outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 Jun 2025, 02:47Oh honey, what's any of it for?
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Unless you use Linux, your OS knows a ton about you. On top of that, with root access to your computer they can do whatever they want and if their system gets hacked you become a member of a bot farm or crypto mine.
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 06:48 last edited byWell I use Linux, but not on my gaming pc. I would switch to it because its all amd, but I don't want to because it lacks the driver suite for my gpu (adrenaline) and I don't want to install a bunch of small applications to gain a small fraction of options it offers.
It's a pitty. Because I realy want to ditch windows since its newest iteration.
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What are you arguing with? I don't see your comment as contradictory to theirs at all.
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 06:51 last edited by red@sopuli.xyz 6 Jun 2025, 02:53I guess his premise, that it's for edgy teens. Heck, half the pop references were ancient on launch.
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The first felt really fresh at the time. FPS was dominated by various milsim shooters and Halo, and the irreverence and clever cell shading style worked well.
Two dialed things up in scope and scale and added some nice environmental variety.
But the rest? The presequel? The 3rd? I just couldn’t. It was more of the same, tired, repetitive, the jokes started really scraping the bottom of the barrel. I had fun early on, but I’m out.
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 07:06 last edited by mrscottytay@sh.itjust.works 6 Jun 2025, 03:07I loved the gameplay of pre sequel. But the writing for that was constantly throwing me for a loop on how any of it was greenlit. I didn't mind the writing in 1 and 2, I got a few chuckles out of that. Pre sequel just made me groan, moan and yawn.
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Precise location information? Wtf for?
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 07:11 last edited byThey use the same terms of service for mobile games and they just dont bother to change it for pc games.
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Most people don't care about privacy.
Most people in the western civilized world are on Facebook, so...
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 07:20 last edited bybut ask those same people whether facebook should be allowed to collect and use all that data, and people will generally say 'no'.
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I haven't read the new TOS but if this review is correct it looks like a GDPR nightmare for them. Good luck to them explaining why they need to collect all that personal data.
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 07:41 last edited byDo we know this is a thing in the EU?
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I just saw an advertisement for a custom T-shirt:
"That's right, I'm a December dad, who lives at 62a, with size 10 feet and prescription glasses..."/S
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 07:47 last edited by"By scrolling past, you agree to sharing with us (and our affiliates) the following collected data types: ..."
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They use the same terms of service for mobile games and they just dont bother to change it for pc games.
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 07:48 last edited byThis mistake makes sense to make as a mistake. But also, that's fuckin asinine
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Don't just review bomb it
Report it to steam as SPYWARE, with the little flag icon on the product page
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 08:24 last edited by acesfullofkings@feddit.uk 6 Jun 2025, 08:11Are they actually likely to remove it for this reason? Or is this just wasting the time of people who have to deal with reports at Steam? Like have they actually done something against Steam's TOS?
^edit: wow, a whole flock of Owls in the replies.^
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Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Owns Rockstar Games, Zynga and 2K. So if that's all their games, it includes at least these: Bioshock series, Borderlands series, Civilization series, Grand Theft Auto series, Mafia series, Max Payne series, NBA 2K series, PGA Tour 2K series, Red Dead series, WWE 2K series and XCOM series.
Amazing stuff!
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 08:24 last edited byThat's just a list of games that used to be good and now suck.
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Are they actually likely to remove it for this reason? Or is this just wasting the time of people who have to deal with reports at Steam? Like have they actually done something against Steam's TOS?
^edit: wow, a whole flock of Owls in the replies.^
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 09:12 last edited bySteam has a history of removing things people don't like (for example: banning ad-ridden games)
So if all these reports can bring them to add this to their TOS, it's worth it
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So...if Steam is running in a Flatpak, and Borderlands is launched from Steam, how much can they even see...really?
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 09:17 last edited byNot a lot. Even when it isn't a flatpak windows software running on linux won't be able to interact with the system anywhere near as deeply as on windows.
They'll be able to tell it's linux, though.
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I apparently love downvotes but here goes: All the Borderlands games (annoying childish cell-shaded skinner-box) and everything Gearbox is and has ever created it utter shit. The CEO is a garbage person, and thier dealings with Epic is Capitalist-Oink-Piggy shite! ""FUCK YOU 2K & GEARBOX, AND FUCK YOU BORDERLANDS!"
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 09:22 last edited byI'm sorry, but Battleborn was brilliant. Deadlock is the first game to re-capture (and expand on) the mix of mechanics Battleborn put together.
Didn't stop Gearbox from shutting it down so that no-one who bought it could ever play again. Not even the story campaign.
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Is this because Embracer sold Borderlands to Take-Two last year?
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 09:23 last edited byIt's because Take Two came out with a fuck-you-in-the-ass EULA for all their games. I actually look forward to boycotting someone, there's too much free and discounted shit everywhere
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They can drop updates anytime after they made sure to have you accept the spyware.
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 09:44 last edited byI doubt it though, the game will be 13 years old this year. It wouldn’t make financial sense for them to bother.
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So...if Steam is running in a Flatpak, and Borderlands is launched from Steam, how much can they even see...really?
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 10:39 last edited byNew to linux...are flatpaks like sandboxed?
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I didn't enjoy the Handsome Collection but free is free. Thanks for sharing.
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New to linux...are flatpaks like sandboxed?
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 10:44 last edited bySort of. They can be, but are not always.