Just a question about the devs and what they get to see.

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dust1† 21 hours ago

Do devs get to see how potato some peoples pcs are? like I can run oblivion remastered at 180-220 fps which i cap to 170 on my 1440p monitor, but all these people that complain once they get out of the sewers that it tanks(for obvious reasons, your no longer in an enclosed area), like can devs go yeah no wonder hes using an amd cpu thats 7 years old with an rtx 3060ti??

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kbiz 21 hours ago

Originally posted by dust1†:
Do devs get to see how potato some peoples pcs are?

Perhaps.

Apollo702 21 hours ago

They do.

Running this grants them access to your information.

Take it or leave it.

metamec 21 hours ago

Valve doesn't tell developers about your individual PC specs, but games are executable code, many of them phone home, and any executable on your system can easily return that data.

ṼṏẌṏḭḊ 21 hours ago

Sometimes when they make you agree to their ToS they'll include the kinds of data they'll collect. Most new games have an option somewhere to turn data collection on/off which stops them getting hardware information and other stuff.

Apollo702 20 hours ago

Perhaps this is a clearer way of breaking it down:

3rd party developers are almost certain to grab data from outside sources such as Valve. They almost certainly are including spyware to various degrees and ownership has been taken away.

One no longer buys a disc and now people are only downloading a lease. You don't own squat anymore.

Valve on the other hand is definitely looking at least at people's hardware- probably more.

Their privacy attitude over the years has been less horrific than much of the industry. It's not great.

That should clear it up a notch.

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Date Posted: 8 Aug @ 1:12am

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