[casual_games] Casual Games audience hardware survey ?

[Kenton White]

Hi Jonas,

I think this is a good idea.  Before I could use such a tool I would need to
have some questions answered about privacy issues.

Under most laws if I collect information from an end user, I must tell them
in my privacy policy what information I am collecting and what I plan to do
with it.  If a user doesn't wish to send the information I must give them
the option to opt out.

Using this tool, how could I let a user opt out of sending the information?

If the information is collected at a centralized server, I would need the
privacy policy for that site as well.  And if the use of the information was
changed, I would potentially need to update all of the people who visited my
site with the new use and give them the option to opt out at that point.
Could the centralized server allow me to remove people?

For me at least, it's not an issue of not wanting to let people know the
traffic to my site, it's the issue of being compliant with many different
laws when I collect personal information.

Kenton



-----Original Message-----
From: casual_games-bounces at igda.org [mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org]
On Behalf Of Jonas Beckeman
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 6:49 AM
To: murat at holoscape.com; 'IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [casual_games] Casual Games audience hardware survey ?

> but this is a survey of Valve-customers who are not exactly 
> casual gamers. Any input is greatly appreciated.

I've suggested a joint effort to collect this kind of data numerous times on
different fora. Using a small shockwave piece connected to a webstats
counter, placed on many sites with different audiences, you can get RAM size
and gfx card.
By running data against a chipset/driver->caps db such as
http://zp.lo3.wroc.pl/cdragan/wizard.php
you could get a kind of "feature by demographic" curve.

While many seem to think it's a good idea, nobody ever commits to it. I've
got the SQL server, graphing tool, query interface etc, and the scripts are
up for grabs, so it'd be easy to start collecting, but I guess people are
hesitant about giving away information such as number of unique visitors.
Too bad.

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