edit: so basically, a EULA change not too long ago granted the company incredibly excessive data collection permissions simply by playing the game. It even included something about countries with less restrictive data privacy regulations, which seems to open the door for selling consumer data to China.
Sorry, but unless you are giving me something in return for the data, like using my address for shipping, you can't have it. Uninstalled!
original review, before I realized the kind of corporate scum I'm dealing with:
So far, it seems like a game I could probably get into, if I didn't have to keep starting over the tutorial due to various reasons like "the tutorial is way too long" and "bugs that have been in the game for 4 years", I still recommend getting it, because it seems like a solid game underneath all the mud (technical debt) they've let accumulate, but I definitely can't recommend paying full price for it. At least, not until/unless they rework the tutorial.
(personally I got it through Humble Monthly a year or 2 ago, at a huge discount. Not free, but it definitely makes the sting of restarting repeatedly slightly better.)

edit: so basically, a EULA change not too long ago granted the company incredibly excessive data collection permissions simply by playing the game. It even included something about countries with less restrictive data privacy regulations, which seems to open the door for selling consumer data to China. Sorry, but unless you are giving me something in return for the data, like using my address for shipping, you can't have it. Uninstalled! original review, before I realized the kind of corporate scum I'm dealing with: [strike]So far, it seems like a game I could probably get into, if I didn't have to keep starting over the tutorial due to various reasons like "the tutorial is way too long" and "bugs that have been in the game for 4 years", I still recommend getting it, because it seems like a solid game underneath all the mud (technical debt) they've let accumulate, but I definitely can't recommend paying full price for it. At least, not until/unless they rework the tutorial. (personally I got it through Humble Monthly a year or 2 ago, at a huge discount. Not free, but it definitely makes the sting of restarting repeatedly slightly better.)[/strike]