jacobvandy wrote on Nov 19, 2019, 19:40:
Beamer wrote on Nov 19, 2019, 16:53:
What data do you think they could harvest from this?
At the very least they're middle-man for much or all of the telemetry data that the games themselves are processing. Where maybe some devs are earnest in looking only for usable feedback or bug detection, Google is foaming at the mouth to sell that shit to somebody...
The game telemetry is captured by, and used by, the gaming companies doing the capturing and processing. EA doesn't want to share its data with Activision, and literally no one outside of the big game publishers wants this data, so there's no market for the data.
Think for a second and imagine you own a brand in any category. What could you learn from this that you don't already know? What information could Google get out of you that it doesn't already have? Could it get how long you spent looking at the options menu? How long it took you to beat the boss of the third level? How long it took you to get to level 18? Damn near every video game company already does this, and does it cheaply, so that information isn't really anything people are excited for.
And, if you aren't interested in gaming, I'm coming up with an absolute blank on what this could possibly tell Google that they don't already know.