Feel free to disagree with Ludwig that PAC-MAN 99 is bad, though he'll question your tastes if you do. KoopaTV is free and has no source of revenue or monetisation. One notable exception to the “since it's free you are the product” rule is KoopaTV. You could even say Namco's generic-or lying-terms represent contract fraud. An agreement-and it is an agreement, that's what you're holding down the A button for-is mutual. We should treat them like they'd treat us when they misrepresent their agreement as well. You'd be in trouble in Namco's eyes if you misrepresent your end of the agreement. There's actually very little purpose in making disclosures-that you need to acknowledge-if what you're disclosing isn't reflected in reality. I guess the real complaint in this article is that companies should customise their legal documents in accordance to what's being offered. It's very valuable data to know that you'll wittingly spend money on a bad, low-effort product. After all, since it's free, you are the product.And I guess if you pay $30 for the DLC, you're still the product and they'll still track you, but now it's much more interesting for them because you'll probably be on their list of PROFITABLE suckers who they will go to first for more money in the future. Or two, they are collecting data, and there's nothing you can do about it besides not use the game. One, Namco is actually not collecting any analytics data, so therefore there is nothing to opt out of. Who knows what “and perform other analytics” could mean. Now sort of concerned about what Namco thinks about me and what they plan to do. Unfortunately, the option doesn't exist.I admit to have then explored the game's features (or lack thereof) and played a few of the 99-person matches. (To my knowledge, the $30 DLC doesn't include one, either.) There is no opt-out option in PAC-MAN 99's settings menu. Ultimate, if only because it's hard to find anyone on that character selection screen, let alone PAC-MAN.Īfter agreeing to the Privacy Policy, the first thing I did was want to do as the Privacy Policy suggested and go to the options menu in PAC-MAN 99, which is called the Setting menu. I definitely don't want to be marketed about PAC-MAN because I'm the kind of person that gets mad every time I go to the character selection screen on Super Smash Bros. You may like the idea of Namco doing special things with your game analytics and maybe marketing things just to you. “You can opt-out of this use through the options menu in the Game.” I took a screenshot of an interesting part about Game Analytics, which sort of implies that Namco is going to do things with your game data, though not sell it to third parties: So after that 14-page EULA/terms of service is that 6-page Privacy Policy, which I read. You need to hold down the A button to agree to the EULA. At least at 14+6 pages, the legal documents are substantially shorter than the 42+42 pages you see from Activision. Typical of free Bandai Namco experiences like Dragon Ball FighterZ, you need to get through a terms of service and privacy policy to play anything. Now, I have never liked PAC-MAN- that's an understatement-but I figured I'd try it at least once. (That's for the game modes and the cosmetic stuff you can buy the cosmetics separately but not the game modes.) All in all, you'll have to pay $30 to get the most out of it. The purpose of the game is to try to get you to buy downloadable content for different game skins based on other Namco properties, as well as pay for game modes like private battle and time attack. L ast week, Bandai Namco released PAC-MAN 99 for free to all Nintendo Switch Online subscribers. By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - You shouldn't go anywhere near PAC-MAN 99.
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