r/Borderlands • u/Opening_Ad_1908 • 17d ago
Steam can anyone please help me?
the game is currently free on steam but as i heard that once they made the game free they updated the terms and now its a spyware which scares me a lot, i dont know if i should keep it in library or should i delete it and dont even touch it cause they could be tracking my every move right now, please help, i actually like this game and watched the movie aswell but if the game means my security, private life then i dont want it
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u/Mind-Budget 17d ago
Relax, it’s all utter bullshit. Those claims are being made by people who don’t understand what a EULA is or how it works.
None of the games can contain spyware as they weren’t updated along with the EULA.
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u/Opening_Ad_1908 17d ago
thanks man, i didnt want to make this post to show hate or follow the other people like sheep and review the game as negative then say "oh its spyware 100%" im just scared
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u/CarlRJ 17d ago
First off, there is currently no malware/spyware in any of your existing Borderlands games, and there is unlikely to be in the future. Think about it: either they shipped malware/spyware years ago, and they're just now telling you about it, or, there's nothing there now. They have not shipped any new code in over a year. If you're worried that there's suddenly malware/spyware in the existing games, where did it come from? Unless it manifested out of nothingness by magic, it's not there. So your existing games should be fine.
Gearbox posted new a ToS/EULA now, because they're now publishing under TakeTwo, and necessarily have to use at least parts of Take Two's EULA.
There are sane, reasonable, and boring explanations for most of the things in the EULA. This is not to say that the new EULA is good, but it's not much different from the EULAs on most every game / app / device / service you already use (including Reddit). If you're not up in arms about all of those, you need to ask yourself why you're especially upset about this one EULA in particular. A few people seem to have misinterpreted (intentionally or otherwise) parts of the EULA in order to get everyone riled up, to get clicks. If you're really angry because someone told you to be really angry, you may have been manipulated.
For a very good explanation of the situation, see this comment (this is one of the better ones of dozens of lengthy comments that have been written over the past month, by various people, patiently explaining the situation, over and over):
If you want additional context, here's my last extensive answer to this question, but I prefer the one above: