Rockstar Games, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in New York City. The company was established in December 1998 as a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive, using the assets Take-Two had previously acquired from BMG Interactive. Founding members of the company were Terry Donovan, Gary Foreman, Dan and Sam Houser, and Jamie King, who worked for Take-Two at the time, and of which the Houser brothers were previously executives at BMG Interactive. Sam Houser heads the studio as president. Taken from Wikipedia.
Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, EULA.
Standard procedure really.
While I've tried 3 different search engines about using them none of them gave me any conclusive proof of anything. In the cases of email aliases I like to be the glass half full person, otherwise there'd be a lot of talk about it not supporting them.
You need to submit a ticket for account deletion. Afterwards, they'll email you asking for account details then once they have that, it's deleted. Jesus.
"Even if you delete your account or data, some activity information may still appear, including on certain gameplay boards including those hosted by third parties, such as console manufacturers (and copies hosted on Social Club)". Boooo!
Yes.
Because everyone definitely needs to know you played through RDR2 with a GT 1030.
Their privacy policy is very vague about how they gather info to be honest.
"When you use the Services on hardware connected to the Internet, we receive information about your gameplay even if you are not specifically notified at the time or do not take any actions to actively give us this information". What the hell man.
I bet they think HTTPS is encryption.
Can't tell you much as I've never had one. I can at least tell you they use Akamai for their website.
Honey it's 4PM, time for your daily spam email about in game currency or something.
Didn't even specify one of them. This privacy policy is real shady to be honest, and I'm not talking about Eminem.
Because data and advertisers and money... Money!
Why do they direct you to 3rd party websites when you want to opt out? What kind of bull is this?
See below.
If you will use the Rockstar Games Launcher with a VPN, remember to log out before turning it off. Some have reported being locked out when they didn't.
They never said anything about deleting our data once they've processed it. This Privacy Policy I swear.
"We obtain information from social media and other publicly available sources, which we may use to better understand our users or to seek intelligence about breaches of our Terms of Service". What is wrong with these people?
All I found on Github when I searched Rockstar was just cheat tools. Guess the user base just hates them that much.
Yes they advertise and yes, they are privacy abusers.
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Analysis: There's really not much to say here. I was expecting a score lower than Epic Games' at least, and it seems to have matched expectations. Their privacy policy is very vague in terms of, well, pretty much everything. They say they collect your phone number, yet it isn't required when signing up. They say they process your information but never mentioned disposing of it after. They say they share info with 3rd parties yet never name even one of the aforementioned 3rd parties. Furthermore, you need to disable Javascript when viewing it and they will request HTML5 data when accessing it. This company is very, very shady in terms of data collection and processing to be honest. While finally being able to play RDR2 may seem tempting to register for an account, I'd avoid anything even barely resembling the Rockstar logo with all the vital information they're witholding. -10/10.