> This program may monitor all of your activity on this computer and track your physical location while you use your computer.
What incentive would they have to do that? They currently are making ridiculous amounts of money and you think they're going to risk all of that to know trivial details about you? Most people aren't that interesting and the information that could be obtained is worth far, far less than the money they make by keeping their player base happy.
A remote exploit in Vanguard is a much more reasonable concern.
"They currently are making ridiculous amounts of money and you think they're going to risk all of that to know trivial details about you?"
I hear this argument for the unlikelihood of corporate malfeasance all the time.
But look all throughout history and you'll see countless examples of very rich and powerful people and corporations taking extreme risks, including doing massively illegal things or risking consumer outrage and loss of good will.
It doesn't help that the real-world consequences of such acts are often just slaps on the wrist, no matter how illegal/immoral/reputation-trashing the acts might be. Very rarely do the rich and powerful suffer severe personal consequences... usually they can buy their way out or exit with a big bonus and just get hired somewhere else that's happy to turn a blind eye to their past (or might even prefer to work with sleazy/corrupt types)... and the public's memory is short.
I don’t think anyone is suggesting Riot would do anything underhanded.
Ironically, the idea that only Riot will ever be able to leverage the capabilities of this software service is probably why many don’t mind running it.
Unfortunately, that idea is flawed for the much the same reason the idea of backdooring encryption algorithms is flawed.
> Ironically, the idea that only Riot will ever be able to leverage the capabilities of this software service is probably why many don’t mind running it.
Just wait until someone finds a vulnerability in Riot's anti-cheat software and abuses it for more sinister purposes. No software is ever completely bug-free.
Some of the most profitable companies in the world today are in the business of collecting seemingly menial metadata about you, creating a profile, and leveraging/selling it.
What incentive would they have to do that? They currently are making ridiculous amounts of money and you think they're going to risk all of that to know trivial details about you? Most people aren't that interesting and the information that could be obtained is worth far, far less than the money they make by keeping their player base happy.
A remote exploit in Vanguard is a much more reasonable concern.