I'm a private individual, I don't see what I could sell to a third-party company.Still curious to know what exactly you need user data for if I'm being honest.
"it's important to oriented my works."
What does that mean? And what kind of data are you collecting? This, atleast to me, is a pretty important bit of information to determine if I want to download the game or not. If there's more information inside the game okay, but I'd like to know beforehand.
Most (if not all) of the time, user-data is being sold to third party companies.
Cheers
Edit: So, I've read in a previous post that it's about days played and the platform used to download/play your game if I understand it correctly. Both of which isn't really doing anything to help you make the game better, so I really struggle to understand the "to oriented my works" part. It does sound a little shady, and since most of us aren't coders/programmers, we have no way of telling if that is actually the truth or if there's other data that's being used for god knows what.
Edit2:
This is extremely vague in terms of what data exactly you can see. Surely it shows more than just the game version, my OS and "anonymous id", whatever that means.
These stats help me :
- quantify the extent of piracy. (I've got nothing against it, I use F95 myself, but I want to measure it).
- find out what languages are being used, so I suggested Russian, because I saw that some people were using it.
- find out how much interest there is in each new version. If it's dropping, I've missed something.
- to know the success or failure of a communication.
I talk to game creators, and if you knew how many games on F95 use a system like mine without saying so... As soon as you see a news item on a home page, there's been a call to a third-party server.
I try to do things right, I warn you in advance, I tell you where it is in the code so you can check what I'm saying. I could indeed make it optional, but we all know that if I did, I'd have no stat.
I understand if you don't like it, but I don't like being traced either.
That's why I wanted to be transparent to reassure people about my attentions. Maybe I'll remove it later, but for now I need to measure the game's interest.
Sorry for the size of the answer.