Redshell is a Spyware that tracks data of your PC and shares it with third parties. On their website they formulate it all in very harmless language, but the fact is that this is software from someone I don't trust and whom I never invited, which is looking at my data and running on my PC against my will. This should have no place in a full price PC game, and in no games if it were up to me. Their website: https://redshell.io/ ------------------------------------------------ Spyware is defined as a piece of software that collects user data without said user's consent or even knowledge. https://www.ftc.gov/reports/spyware-workshop-monitoring-software-your-personal-computer-spyware-adware-other-software The Spyware "service" software RedShell conducts its business by having developers take only a handful line of codes and injecting it into their associated games (or slapping on various .dll files). This was all done without the user's consent and more often than not, without their knowledge as even the base-line RECOMMENDED method of operation Red Shell told developers to do: https://i.imgur.com/odOQfW0.png Is in MASSIVE and DIRECT violation of the European Union General Data Protection Regulation Act: https://www.eugdpr.org/the-regulation.html Tech-savvy users that have tried blocking the Spyware's internet access on their computer has more than often had their ability to play the affected game be made impossible with non-stop crashes. One method of blocking Red Shell can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/8s3zy2 Spoiler: List of games that allegedly use the Spyware Battlerite Some Total War Games Secret World Legends Kerbal Space Program Heroine Anthem Zero Warhammer 40k Eternal Crusade Krosmaga Eternal Card Game Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 Hunt: Showdown Cabals: Card Blitz CityBattle | Virtual Earth Doodle God Doodle God Blitz Doodle God: Genesis Secrets Labyrinth My Free Farm 2 NosTale Daylight RockShot Shadowverse SOS & SOS Classic SoulWorker Stonies War Robots Survived By Injustice 2 Warriors: Rise to Glory! League of Pirates Archangel: Hellfire Skyworld Indygo Spoiler: Games that had the Spyware be allegedly removed so far or have been removed off Steam Civilization VI Quake Champions Elder Scrolls Online Astro Boy: Edge of Time Conan Exiles Ylands Holy Potatoes! We’re in Space?! Warhammer: Vermintide II My Time At Portia Dead by Daylight Battlerite The Escapists 2 AER Memories of Old Magic the Gathering Arena's Beta Hunt: Showdown Omensight Ballistic Overkill Vaporum Tales from Candlekeep: Tomb of Annihilation Yoku's Island Express Clone Drone in the Danger Zone The Wild Eight Desolate Trailmakers Raging Justice Dungeon Rushers Spoiler: List of Developers and Publishers that WILLINGLY and KNOWINGLY allegedly put this into their games in the first place, directly violating their customer's legal rights 2K | Firaxis Games | Aspyr | Squad | Private Division | Behaviour Digital Inc | Digital Extremes | Ankama Studios & Games | Dire Wolf Digital LLC | CI Games | Kyy Games | BISBOG SA | LLC RIKOR IMT | JoyBits & JoyBits Ltd | Free Range Games | upjers GmbH & Co. KG | Entwell Co., Ltd | Gameforge 4D GmbH | Creative Assembly | Soleil | Cygames | NetEase | Outpost Games Inc | Lion Games Co Ltd | Vertigo Games | Wolfdog Interactive | King Art Games | Pixonic | Human Head Studios | NetherRealm Studios | QLOC | Gavra Games | Skydance Interactive | Pigmentum Game Studio | Fat Dog Games | id Software | Saber Interactive | Stunlock Studios | Zombie Studios | Crytek | SEGA | Team17 Digital Limited
I have a lot of these games but none installed As someone who really cares about his data being secret (don’t ask why :^) ) this is worrying to hear and ty for the heads up <3
No need to leak out unnecessary amounts of it man I avoid giving it out when I can, even when companies promise me a ”better experience”