How in-app purchases have destroyed the game industry

Re:How in-app purchases have destroyed the game industry by DanBC on Monday February 03, 2014 @10:00AM (#7170914)

Him using customer provided data to then go and look those people up on the Internet.

Creepy. I can't understand why anyone on HN thinks it's acceptable.

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Re:How in-app purchases have destroyed the game industry by wglb on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @09:47AM (#7177668)

So googling for information about someone that I do business with is creepy? Pretty sure that I don't agree with that.

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Re:How in-app purchases have destroyed the game industry by DanBC on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @05:48AM (#7183001)

It depends on the business, but in general I give a supplier my information so that they can supply me with the goods I request; inform me about that process; and invoice me.

Using that information for other reasons without informing me is a clear, unambiguous, invasion of my privacy. It's probably not legal in the UK.

Tl:dr yes, it's creepy. Especially in the context of a game dev.

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Re:How in-app purchases have destroyed the game industry by loumf on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @03:30PM (#7180059)

There are CRM plugins that do it for you automatically when you view records. At the low-end, when I go into Mailchimp, there's a pay plugin (that I don't use) that puts up social information. If anyone emails me, Rapportive brings up their social profile to the right of the email.

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Re:How in-app purchases have destroyed the game industry by DanBC on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @05:51AM (#7183014)

Depending on the business I guess it's okay. But for a game dev?

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