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Ceana of the Crags 2 Aug @ 11:52pm
Ban Games with Excessive Listening Port Activities
I play a game called Echoes of the Plum Grove. In the beginning, it was speeding up my computer, and crashed it multiple times. Many players had this issue. I can run any other game without problems. I looked in the performance monitor and saw excessive internet and listening port activity. I reported them. The internet activity sank, but the listening port activity has not changed. In excess of 45 listening port instances. They were using my file and printer system in the IPv6. After blocking all 6 rules in my firewall, I started the game back up. They simply turned back on. I exited and made myself the only user, who could use those and blocked them again. Success!! But only temporarily. Soon, they were back and are using IPv4 now, again with an excess of 45 listening port instances.

This is EXCESSIVE. This should not be allowed. I should not have to hunt down connections in my firewall to block them for an abusive dev team, who have overstepped the bounds of sanity.

People: Turn on a game from UbiSoft. You will not see that sort of insane monitoring even in their games! Nor in EA's games. This dev team is drunk on their power. They need, at least in Europe, to specify EXACTLY what they are monitoring, and get our EXPRESSED consent! This is a violation of our GDPR.
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datCookie 3 Aug @ 12:00am 
If you've got an issue like this, you'd best take it to the appropriate people who might actually be able to do something about it. Steam can't do anything, because they don't have access to what games do as far as this is concerned. They look for malware and such, that's it.

Maybe get a lawyer, sue the company and see what happens.

No one here can do anything.
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Ceana of the Crags 3 Aug @ 12:08am 
Originally posted by datCookie:
If you've got an issue like this, you'd best take it to the appropriate people who might actually be able to do something about it. Steam can't do anything, because they don't have access to what games do as far as this is concerned. They look for malware and such, that's it.

Maybe get a lawyer, sue the company and see what happens.

No one here can do anything.

There is a report mechanism, to report them to Steam for violation of laws in my region (Germany), which means Steam CAN do something.

I would not "get a lawyer"; I would start a class-action suit. I promise you that German judges would punish this ♥♥♥♥ harshly. We value our privacy here.
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datCookie 3 Aug @ 12:36am 
Originally posted by Ceana of the Crags:
Originally posted by datCookie:
If you've got an issue like this, you'd best take it to the appropriate people who might actually be able to do something about it. Steam can't do anything, because they don't have access to what games do as far as this is concerned. They look for malware and such, that's it.

Maybe get a lawyer, sue the company and see what happens.

No one here can do anything.

There is a report mechanism, to report them to Steam for violation of laws in my region (Germany), which means Steam CAN do something.

I would not "get a lawyer"; I would start a class-action suit. I promise you that German judges would punish this ♥♥♥♥ harshly. We value our privacy here.

Report it then. If nothing happens, sue them. I didn't suggest you report them initially because you said you'd already done that.
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BJWyler 3 Aug @ 3:36am 
Originally posted by Ceana of the Crags:
Originally posted by datCookie:
If you've got an issue like this, you'd best take it to the appropriate people who might actually be able to do something about it. Steam can't do anything, because they don't have access to what games do as far as this is concerned. They look for malware and such, that's it.

Maybe get a lawyer, sue the company and see what happens.

No one here can do anything.

There is a report mechanism, to report them to Steam for violation of laws in my region (Germany), which means Steam CAN do something.

I would not "get a lawyer"; I would start a class-action suit. I promise you that German judges would punish this ♥♥♥♥ harshly. We value our privacy here.
Then go for it, bro. Posting a rant in a random game forum ain't gonna get the job done. So go get that lawyer for your lawsuit.

Though why one would want to continue to play a game from a dev who is intent on spying on you will kind of be a sticking point in the path to victory.
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