This game is a grid based Dungeon Crawler settled in a Steampunk world and realized with modern tech 3D engine whose movemtents are restrained to a grid and rotations to 90°degrees (much like Grimrock). The campaign's ads wouldn't have affected me since I use uBlock Origin on my browsers, too many times I've had to deal with sites using ads for revenue where the ads weren't being checked and malicious ads managed to sneak in and try and plant Malware on my computer.Recently put my hands on a brand new DM clone: Vaporum On a side-note, I couldn't help but remember that for the rig choices in the beginning, there are still 2 empty tubes/chambers/containers, I hope we'll be seeing an extra Rig choice or two in an upcoming patch. Thank you for bringing this to our attention! Thank you for the reply, I'll be re-installing the game since the RedShellSDK.DLL is currently disabled and not doing anything. Originally posted by JaseMourne:Hey, Nalkor! Thank you for bringing this to our attention! At least there's no way we could send any other data to them. RedShell, to my knowledge, doesn't collect any other data other than that. If yes, the devs have a match and they know that, "Okay, cool, so this ad works!" or if there are very few matches, it doesn't, and so they know they need to improve the ad. The link most likely points you to a store page, and when you actually buy the game and run it for the first time, the game tells the plug-in to see if the same generated string was ever put onto their servers. So, for instance, when you see an ad on Facebook and you click it, a generated string is sent to RedShell servers. We simply never initialize it when the game is starting up, so yes, the DLL is currently there, but it hasn't been doing a thing.Įven in games where RedShell is still enabled, its only task is to match an ad link click and the actual purchase on Steam, GOG, or wherever. Since then, we haven’t run a single campaign and the plug-in is actually disabled in code, in accordance with GDPR. We are a very small team with a very small budget and we don't have enough resources for some large scale advertising campaigns, so this was just an experiment on our part. We formerly used RedShell ONLY to track the effectiveness of a single campaign on Reddit and Facebook to see where the greatest concentration of our audience and fans was, so we could focus our community activities in a meaningful way. The presence of the DLL file in the game directory is simply a mistake on our part that we are working to correct. I won't be requesting a refund or anything, I'm not that much of a whiny fear-mongerer, I just would like a quick answer and confirmation that eventually the program will be removed.įirst of all, I would like to apologize and assure you that Redshell was disabled before GDPR came to effect. I really don't like making these kinds of posts, they can come off as whiny and even a little ♥♥♥♥♥♥ truth be told, but I really don't want a company tracking what my PC does when the game is running, or at all, it's why I've disabled Flash and Java for my browsers to prevent ads and such from hitting me at the worst times, so RedShell in a game I own is an immediate deal-breaker. So can someone on the developer team please explain to me just why you have decided to put some tracking software in your offline single-player game to gather data on your players? I'm fairly certain that while as an NA-based player, I don't get much say about the issue, but how would an EU-based player protected by the GDPR handle this? As long as this piece of tracking software is part of the game, I'm keeping it uninstalled, if it is removed, it's going to get installed right back ASAP. Of course I found RedShell.dll in that game's steam install folder, Funcom is kind dumb like that, but when I did a quick search for RedShell.dll on my D: Drive, I was a little shocked to see the RedShellSDK.DLL file in this game's VaporumGame_Data > Managed folder. Okay, after all the stuff about tracking information and privacy policies being updated, I went and looked at this reddit thread: while reading about a RedShell post on Secret World Legend's subreddit.
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