The Gearbox software has published a statement regarding the controversy regarding changes in the conditions of services and fears that many Borderlands games now contain “spy software”.
Published directly to pairsWhere indignation materialized in the form of a review campaign for all main Borderlands titles, the purpose of the statement is to solve problems while maintaining transparency and trust in the community. ” This means that he deals with two key talks points that have taken over Borderlands fans for months, including fear of spying software and repression of fashion.
Gearbox explains from the very beginning. Although the data of the instance is collected, Gearbox does not want players to be afraid that their private information is always available.
“Take-DWO identifies these practices in his privacy policy to ensure transparency to players and comply with their legal obligations,” says the statement of Steam Gearbox. “Take-dwo collects this information to provide its services to players, including to protect the game environment and experience of players. You can read more about this in the Privacy Policy.”
The statement continues: “For example, player and devices identifiers are partly collected to ensure that the game is compatible with the media of each player, platform or browser of the site. It allows us to better understand how players play games, and also personalize the user’s experience (such as the appearance of the name of users!) his labers. “
It is not clear whether the explanation of the terms of the two service by Gearbox will be enough to composed down those who took the weapon after changing the agreement in February. Meanwhile, the explanation of the studio regarding his position in the modding scene is quite plain.
“Take-Two services prohibit mods that allow users to get an unfair advantage, negatively affect the ability of other users to enjoy the game as intended or enabling users to access the content to which the user is not authorized,” explains the statement. “We do it to protect the integrity of the game’s impression for all users.”
This is a direct reaction to the fears that the modding community can face repercussions in the case of all kinds of fashion, as it claims that the main concern Take-Two is fraudsters who could weaken the experience of other players. The statement even goes to the statement that the Settime Company Gearbox “generally does not strive to take action against mods, which are only single, non -commercial and respect intellectual property rights (IP) of its labels and third parties.”
Uproar began around May this year, when the fans caught the wind, that Take-Two updated their conditions for providing services, affecting many existing titles. A rumor that the company was feeding on the user’s data quickly caught fire, which caused a movement in which the latest reviews of the Borderlands 1, Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3 sections in “mainly negative” and “usually negative” zones. While the fears gave way in the back half of May, The fears began again when Borderlands 2 was made available (for a restricted time) June 5.
For now, the recent reviews of the Borderlands series about Steam remain strongly red. Meanwhile, Gearbox is working on delivery Borderlands 4 In September. You can check the latest news, as well as some gameplay by reading Everything announced at the presentation of the state of 2025..
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