Comment on Steam Winter Sale Featured Deep Discounts - any recommendations?
SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The Owlcat Pathfinder CRPGs aren’t on the deep discounts list, but Kingmaker is 85% off ($2.99) and Wrath Of The Righteous is 70% off ($11.99). Both are solid games.
teletext@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Owlcat is a Russian company that is very outspoken pro-Putin, pro-Ukraine war. The EULA of the games essentially tells you that they’ll install spyware.
Do not buy their games! If you already own them, do not install their games!
Wimopy@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Do you have any sources for this? I tried to look into it, but I can’t find them making any political statements and they seem to be mostly centred in Cyprus, so how much do they actually support Russia besides being (originally?) Russian and thus at risk if speaking out against Putin?
SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Well, shit. TIL. That sucks.
asret@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous is an amazing game if you can look past the politics though. Also, the spyware thing is pretty standard now - it’s usually called “telemetry” in most EULAs. I haven’t read it closely enough to know if they’re overreaching any worse than others, but they did walk back including the AppFlyer tool after pushback from users.