Torn Banner Studios has announced that its multiplayer magic and melee game, Mirage: Arcane Warfare, has been removed from Steam due to the new European Union privacy law, he General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
This new privacy law comes into effect tomorrow, May 25th, and the official servers will remain running until May 31st. Players will continue to be able to host their own public or private servers after this point.
In Mirage: Arcane Warfare, players were armed with steel and magic and they battled across a fantastical Arabian and Persian-inspired setting of desert sands, market bazaars and grand palaces.
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Two years, the law has been present and in effect for 2 years, and companies are still not prepared…
Tomorrow the fulfillment is compulsory in every EU country, just that, but the law has been around for 2 years so it’s no new, Companies should have been prepared long ago
The law itself is good it is about protecting your personal information, but that doesnt really matter to all those companies who sell that information to advertisers and nigerian scammers.
why dont they just ban it for european players?
because people’s expectations of privacy have changed around the world, see Cambridge Analytica etc. so their practices would not be tolerated anyway
to be honest mate cambridge analtytica is nothing, freaking nothing, nonthing of what these people did was new or illegal they just took the information that people put up in their profiles by their own free will and use it to market stuff to them.
The media made a big deal about this to get to trump but its NOTHING compared to what has been going on and STILL goes on for over a decade.
That’s why the law exist, to protect the people against their own stupidity
cambridge analytica? afaik facebook didnt face any fines and nobody stopped using it so not sure about the “would not be tolerated” thing
Even if there is no fine, it does not matter: the extensive press coverage and the fact that Facebook had to testify in front of congress in the US and the EU is enough to make any company pause and reconsider. Just look at the ads that Facebook has launched in newspaper and tv campaign on major tv channels, apologizing and promising to do better. That is already a few millions of dollars gone.
theyve been apologizing and promising to do better since they exist. seriously every year theyve been doing that. its just saving face, doubt much will change