DDO's Turbine Partners With Notorious SuperRewards 121
Zarrot writes "In the next step for their Free 2 Play model, Turbine Entertainment, publisher of Dungeon and Dragons: Online, Lord of the Rings: Online, and Asheron's Call, has partnered with notorious 'lead generation company' SuperRewards. Initial testing by forum users shows that just accessing the page without clicking on any offers sends the user's email and game login in clear text to SuperRewards. Reports of new spam and fresh malware infections on test systems are already being reported on the company's forums. Is the Zynga business model the future of Internet gaming?"
Spam? (Score:3, Funny)
The bottom line (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The bottom line (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Prefetching? (Score:5, Funny)
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
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BMO
Re:just dont play for a while (Score:2, Funny)
Pfft, who are you trying to kid?
Assassins Creed 2 sold, and it has probably the worst DRM ever.
What makes you think people will give a monkeys flying shit about some website collecting information?
People do that crap all the time on Facebook, Myspace and Bebo. (perhaps not so much the 3rd if it doesn't get a buyer)
People simply don't give a damn about their privacy online, they'd happily comply with posting all their personal information just to get a free bloody iPod for crying out loud...
All the more reason for Computer Licences IMO.
Idiots being let on computers has ruined Computing for all of us. It is going to take decades to fix all this awful mess we are in now.
Re:Spam? (Score:5, Funny)
The hardware warranty on those things is really short; but the vendor promises a Valkyrie on site within two hours, so long as the appliance dies while battling spam.
If it fails to wake up after scheduled downtime, I have to dispose of it myself.
Re:Not necessarily (Score:2, Funny)
diming and quartering
Boy, talk about inflation...
(I think the phrase is "to nickel and dime.") :)
Re:Not necessarily (Score:3, Funny)
Being nickelled wasn't all that bad, but the threat of being quartered [straightdope.com] is really starting to drive people away.