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One of the oldest tricks in Hollywood: after the inventor dies, a corporation swoops in, buys the rights to his work, and starts the project back up. This is exactly how the Terminator project got re-started after Dr. Miles Dyson died and the Cyberdyne building was torched. A corporation called "Cyber Research Systems"…
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Reading this post by Stahl makes me really wish Voyager had not won the poll. Had Deep Space Nine won, we would likely have gotten playable Cardassians, or maybe a Changeling bridge officer, or Vorta. Had Enterprise won, we would likely have gotten the Xindi in the game. But, since Voyager won, we seem to be stuck on…
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First of all, yes, it *is* different than Steam. Steam offers me the opportunity to play thousands of games from hundreds of different companies. The Steam client is around 100 meg (as far as I can tell, but I may be off a bit), and has zero impact on my computer's speed. Steam does not harass me to play other games that…
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You are smart not to believe it, because it's a lie.... ARC is using its own built-in HTML browser which simply cannot be as secure as IE, Chrome, etc. It is always going to be easier for a hacker to breach a poorly coded built-in browser than something like IE9, IE10, or the newest iteration of Chrome, because the hacker…
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They're operating under the assumption that nobody will ragequit the game over this. They're already very aware that people don't want this, and they already know people will hate it when it is made mandatory... but they are assuming that you'll still play STO, even though you hate ARC. Personally, I don't think the…
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Don't think you can install ARC and turn off the spyware. Someone can correct me if I am wrong, I have not installed ARC (and will never install it) and I have not read the EULA for ARC...... but with Origin, the click-thru EULA gives EA explicit permission for all sorts of tracking rights on your PC, including giving EA…
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They won't listen until people start quitting the game in massive numbers, I suspect.
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You've hit the nail on the head, and I think this is worth repeating: An extremely large percentage of people play only one MMO! The chance that someone is going to install ARC and suddenly start playing more PWE games is small. A few people will, sure. But the vast majority won't, they'll stick with their one MMO. So this…
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Rocknrobot, I agree with you 100% -- I feel like there are a large number of quality games out there I could be playing -- we all have a large number of choices for our entertainment needs. If the company that makes any particular game has such contempt for me as a customer that they've got to ram adware and bloatware down…
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I picked up on it, as did many others. I'll drop this game like a stone if I am forced against my will to install a bloated, poorly-thought-out 1gigabyte mess of advertising and TRIBBLE offers. Cryptic, I can't say this loudly enough -- I will not spend another penny in this game if this is rammed down my throat! And I am…
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That's the point. They have NOTHING to offer except marketing, ads, and "install these other games! buy more ZEN!" drivel. Arc is being pushed on players because PWE wants to drive up install rates on the other PWE games, and for no other reason. As a Steam gamer who only plays STO, I simply don't care what PWE's install…
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Can someone from Cryptic please confirm that this nonsense will NEVER be forced upon people who play the game through Steam? This is bloatware and spyware that offers no benefit to me. It wasn't created for me, because I don't want it, and didn't ask for it. I launch the game through Steam, or I don't play the game. Period.