Since the other thread was locked for imho no good reason I have to open this one to address BEdev-Sables post. It sucks that i have to open a thread for this but the other one was locked without a proper discussion - at least imho. I hope you understand I don't mean to spam, I just have these few things that I think people should think about. I also want to apologize for the first post - i was kinda pissed at the time so I hope you can read this post without any hard feelings. So here's the post I'd like to address: 1) That may be, but just because people don't usually read it doesn't make it right to claim the rights todo whatever you want on my pc. It is actually against the law (at least it was about 2 years ago when EAs Origin hit the market with a shitstorm and an expert analysed their EULA) where I live to make suprising demands or disadvantage people in EULAs because the law recognizes that most people don't read them. I'd call an anticheat software scanning my entire PC and claiming the right to send whatever it finds "home" pretty suprising. It doesn't matter that this is common practice (which I'm very unsure if it really is since VAC claims to have stopped this kind of behaviour after a massive outrage). 2) Forget the semantics. Whatever it is or isn't - there is no question that it's potentially violating peoples privacy or at least claiming the right todo so. Why claim the right todo so if you have no intention of doing it ? From the EULA: "-BattlelEye may scan the entire memory and any game-relates and system-related files and folders on harddisk and report results to the connected game server for the sole pupose of detecting cheats." In a post on battleeye.com you address this: "Our EULA clearly states that as well. However, it's true that BE can, from time to time, upload executable code (mainly .dll and .exe files) that has been flagged by certain hack-identifying scans to the BE master server for further analysis." Then why not make the EULA more specific and say that you only upload executables and not documents, pictures or whatever. The less grey area a EULA has the better it is from a customer perpective and since you have no evil intentions why not be abundantly clear about this ? I'm aware that the next paragraph in the EULA states that no passwords and documents are uploaded but clarifying that you only upload executables is a lot more trustworthy than saying we upload all kinds of stuff and then providing 2 exceptions that you aren't uploading - wouldn't you agree ? You also state that no private data are uploaded but never clarify what private means. I'm a devloper. If I have an executable of my new programm lying around and ou find it - is it private ? Or will it be uploaded because it's for some reason suspicios ? 3) I didn't even know that some AVs were having false positives with BE currently so I'm not going to address that. I'd also like to say that I never wanted to suggest that BE has evil intentions. Unfortunately you don't need to have evil intentions to become the source of evil. If someone breaks into your servers and exploits the auto-update function of BE to exceute malicous code it won't have been your intentions that have lead to many peoples serious concerns but it will still be a terrible situation.
