On 8/27/2025 6:40 AM, Zaghadka wrote:
Tbh, I like to receive properly targeted marketing appeals. It's better
than the spaghetti on the wall approach. If the ads are going to be
constant and annoying anyway, they may as well be relevant.
Targeted =/= Relevant. Its never ads for stuff that is actually
relevant to _you_, its ads for stuff that they've been able to sell to >others that may or may not vaguely be in a same demographic as you.
Do you link the account?
1) It doesn't ask me because I'm registered
with every possible service already!
2) Heck yeah! No downsides and I get a hat?
Click-click, I'm all in, baby!
3) Well, I really don't want to... but that is a
nice hat, so okay.
4) I would if the reward was better. Maybe if you
give me two hats?
5) Sorry, even two clicks is too much work.
6) No, I never join a group that would have me
as a member.
7) I don't play any new games.
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Okay, you all can probably guess my answer. I'm a grumpy introvert and
I don't like sharing more information about myself with corporations
than I need to. I fall squarely into Group #6... although I suppose if
the reward is _really_ worth it I might be convinced. But it would
take a heck of a lot more than a cosmetic item (or three).
Where do you draw the line?
On 8/26/2025 8:23 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
Do you link the account?
1) It doesn't ask me because I'm registered
with every possible service already!
2) Heck yeah! No downsides and I get a hat?
Click-click, I'm all in, baby!
3) Well, I really don't want to... but that is a
nice hat, so okay.
4) I would if the reward was better. Maybe if you
give me two hats?
5) Sorry, even two clicks is too much work.
6) No, I never join a group that would have me
as a member.
7) I don't play any new games.
//////
Okay, you all can probably guess my answer. I'm a grumpy introvert and
I don't like sharing more information about myself with corporations
than I need to. I fall squarely into Group #6... although I suppose if
the reward is _really_ worth it I might be convinced. But it would
take a heck of a lot more than a cosmetic item (or three).
Where do you draw the line?
6. I can't remember signing up for anything unless it was required to
play their damn game.
I still might do it eventually, if A. it wasn't an AAA evil magacorp.
and B. I really like more than one of their games, and C. I thought the
hat was cool.
I forgot we sometimes do these Completely Random and Pointless Polls.
It's not that I don't have ideas for new polls; I just forget to write
them to the newsgroup! But I remembered now, so let's do another one!
//////
Congratulations! You just installed a new game. The first thing the
game does when it starts up is asks you to link your Steam account (or
create a new account) with the publisher's newest online service. It's completely optional (you can play the game without), but it's
otherwise completely painless; it won't require more than two or three clicks, and you'll get an exciting bonus (let's say a fancy new hat
for your character to wear) if you do so.
Do you link the account?
1) It doesn't ask me because I'm registered
with every possible service already!
2) Heck yeah! No downsides and I get a hat?
Click-click, I'm all in, baby!
3) Well, I really don't want to... but that is a
nice hat, so okay.
4) I would if the reward was better. Maybe if you
give me two hats?
5) Sorry, even two clicks is too much work.
6) No, I never join a group that would have me
as a member.
7) I don't play any new games.
//////--
Okay, you all can probably guess my answer. I'm a grumpy introvert and
I don't like sharing more information about myself with corporations
than I need to. I fall squarely into Group #6... although I suppose if
the reward is _really_ worth it I might be convinced. But it would
take a heck of a lot more than a cosmetic item (or three).
Where do you draw the line?
I forgot we sometimes do these Completely Random and Pointless Polls.
It's not that I don't have ideas for new polls; I just forget to write
them to the newsgroup! But I remembered now, so let's do another one!
//////
Congratulations! You just installed a new game. The first thing the
game does when it starts up is asks you to link your Steam account (or
create a new account) with the publisher's newest online service. It's completely optional (you can play the game without), but it's
otherwise completely painless; it won't require more than two or three clicks, and you'll get an exciting bonus (let's say a fancy new hat
for your character to wear) if you do so.
Do you link the account?
1) It doesn't ask me because I'm registered
with every possible service already!
2) Heck yeah! No downsides and I get a hat?
Click-click, I'm all in, baby!
3) Well, I really don't want to... but that is a
nice hat, so okay.
4) I would if the reward was better. Maybe if you
give me two hats?
5) Sorry, even two clicks is too much work.
6) No, I never join a group that would have me
as a member.
7) I don't play any new games.
//////
Okay, you all can probably guess my answer. I'm a grumpy introvert and
I don't like sharing more information about myself with corporations
than I need to. I fall squarely into Group #6... although I suppose if
the reward is _really_ worth it I might be convinced. But it would
take a heck of a lot more than a cosmetic item (or three).
Where do you draw the line?
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