All they track is if and how long you look at the advertisements." Whether that will be enough to quell the privacy critics or not has yet to be seen, but at least the comments so far have been largely positive. "The company providing the ad system does not and will not store any personal information or data that otherwise can be used to identify you. In his comments, he also made sure to cover privacy concerns regarding the advertising. We'll be maintaining the persistent stats servers and the community site, and continuing to support ETQW with updates and improvements," Neil said in his post. We want to keep supporting ETQW in as many ways as possible. So, we're not planning to ship this game and walk away. "For the last four years, we've put all of our effort into making Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars. In order to bring not just basic bug patches but continuous refinements and improvements to what the company hopes will be a long-standing multiplayer experience, the developer has gone the route of In-game advertising. Neil Postlethwaite, Managing Director for Splash Damage, came onto the ET:QW official community site yesterday to make the announcement.
Sinai School of Medicine in New York.Ī committee of the influential physicians' group had proposed video game addiction be listed as a mental disorder in the American Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders, a guide used by the American Psychiatric Association in diagnosing mental illness. Stuart Gitlow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and Mt. "There is nothing here to suggest that this is a complex physiological disease state akin to alcoholism or other substance abuse disorders, and it doesn't get to have the word addiction attached to it," said Dr.
They said more study is needed before excessive use of video and online games - a problem that affects about 10 percent of players - could be considered a mental illness. Addiction experts also strongly opposed the idea at a debate at the American Medical Association's annual meeting.
Doctors backed away on Sunday from a controversial proposal to designate video game addiction as a mental disorder akin to alcoholism, saying psychiatrists should study the issue more.