Take Two has finally responded to the concerns of fans when it comes to their privacy and safety. PC gamers were surprised when the terms of the EULA suddenly changed without previous advice. It seems that Take Two decided to go the way of DARVO, and their response is far from ideal. While they deny that they use Spyware to collect information on their Borderlands games, there’s plenty of people who say the contrary. There’s plenty of examples of multiple games in the series triggering various issues on Windows systems. Thankfully, a bunch of those issues can be prevented by just playing the game on Linux.
Take Two dislikes mods too
Unfortunately, not everything is safe, and trying to mod the game in any capacity can be grounds to get banned in some capacity. As long as you don’t do it in Multiplayer, everything is perfect, and it seems that Take Two does not mind people doing weird things in Single Player mode. Still, the fact that the freedom of people who play these games is being taken away just because they decided to change the EULA is ridiculous.
No things like this should happen, but we live in the current gaming industry, when companies seem to have all the say and law power in the world, unless we speak of Europe. Thankfully, the majority of exploitable malware only works on Windows systems, since Windows still owns, for whatever reason, the biggest market share on Operating Systems in the world. Well there is a reason, packing laptops and computers with it helps.
Now that Valve is packing handheld PCs with SteamOS, Microsoft has decided that its time to fold up and let Valve take the win. The best part about all of this is that Borderlands 2 runs perfectly on Linux, but even when this is happening and its currently free on Steam, it will get review bombed until things change.
