s Epic Games Doing Steam Data Mining On Us? The Company Responds!

General news News PC PC News 03/16/2019

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Epic seems to get more and more suspicious.

There’s a Reddit topic that claims the Epic Games Store launcher is running multiple processes to access multiple DLL files and root certificates on our operating system. (There’s more than that, and we’ll stay neutral. Here’s a tweet with a photo that will be embedded after this paragraph – it claims the Epic Games Store is a botnet with tracking, taking our browser’s [Internet Explorer] settings, and more.)

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The launcher is sending data back to Epic, without clarifying why. PCGamer confirmed that the Epic Games Store launcher is accessing Steam files. Daniel Vogel, Epic’s engineering vice president, has responded, claiming the tracking pixel is for the Support-A-Creator program to pay the creators, the root certificates/cookies are accessed as „a result of normal web browser start up,” as the Epic Games Store launcher UI is heavily based on the Chromium engine (so is Google involved, too?). The Steam file access happens to allow us to import our Steam friends, but it only happens with our strict permission, Then, he repeated that Epic is led by Tim Sweeney, and the external shareholders (such as Tencent, and thus, China) has no access to customer data.

Tim Sweeney has also commented: „We ought to only access the localconfig.vdf file after the user chooses to import Steam friends. [The current setup is] a remnant left over from our rush to implement social features in the early days of Fortnite. It’s actually my fault for pushing the launcher team to support it super quickly and then identifying that we had to change it. Since this issue came to the forefront, we’re going to fix it.” Don’t they break the European data protection law, the GDPR…?

(One more thing at the end, again in brackets: the company didn’t seem to respond to everything, did they?)

Source: Gamesindustry, Twitter

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— Streletskiy (@_s_t_r_e_l_o_k) March 14, 2019

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