Congratulations! You just installed a new game. The first thing the
game does when it starts up is asks you to link your Steam account (or
create a new account) with the publisher's newest online service. It's completely optional (you can play the game without), but it's
otherwise completely painless; it won't require more than two or three clicks, and you'll get an exciting bonus (let's say a fancy new hat
for your character to wear) if you do so.
Do you link the account?
Do you link the account?
4) I would if the reward was better. Maybe if you
give me two hats?
6) No, I never join a group that would have me
as a member.
I forgot we sometimes do these Completely Random and Pointless Polls.
It's not that I don't have ideas for new polls; I just forget to write
them to the newsgroup! But I remembered now, so let's do another one!
//////
Congratulations! You just installed a new game. The first thing the
game does when it starts up is asks you to link your Steam account (or
create a new account) with the publisher's newest online service. It's >completely optional (you can play the game without), but it's
otherwise completely painless; it won't require more than two or three >clicks, and you'll get an exciting bonus (let's say a fancy new hat
for your character to wear) if you do so.
Do you link the account?
1) It doesn't ask me because I'm registered
with every possible service already!
2) Heck yeah! No downsides and I get a hat?
Click-click, I'm all in, baby!
3) Well, I really don't want to... but that is a
nice hat, so okay.
4) I would if the reward was better. Maybe if you
give me two hats?
5) Sorry, even two clicks is too much work.
6) No, I never join a group that would have me
as a member.
7) I don't play any new games.
//////
Okay, you all can probably guess my answer. I'm a grumpy introvert and
I don't like sharing more information about myself with corporations
than I need to.
Do you link the account?
1) It doesn't ask me because I'm registered
with every possible service already!
2) Heck yeah! No downsides and I get a hat?
Click-click, I'm all in, baby!
3) Well, I really don't want to... but that is a
nice hat, so okay.
4) I would if the reward was better. Maybe if you
give me two hats?
5) Sorry, even two clicks is too much work.
6) No, I never join a group that would have me
as a member.
7) I don't play any new games.
*At the very least* two hats :) Well, actually it's a no for any
cosmetic but a maybe a decent gun or whatever's useful in the game. So >usually it's:
I forgot we sometimes do these Completely Random and Pointless Polls.
It's not that I don't have ideas for new polls; I just forget to write
them to the newsgroup! But I remembered now, so let's do another one!
//////
Congratulations! You just installed a new game. The first thing the
game does when it starts up is asks you to link your Steam account (or
create a new account) with the publisher's newest online service. It's >completely optional (you can play the game without), but it's
otherwise completely painless; it won't require more than two or three >clicks, and you'll get an exciting bonus (let's say a fancy new hat
for your character to wear) if you do so.
Do you link the account?
1) It doesn't ask me because I'm registered
with every possible service already!
2) Heck yeah! No downsides and I get a hat?
Click-click, I'm all in, baby!
3) Well, I really don't want to... but that is a
nice hat, so okay.
4) I would if the reward was better. Maybe if you
give me two hats?
5) Sorry, even two clicks is too much work.
6) No, I never join a group that would have me
as a member.
7) I don't play any new games.
//////
Okay, you all can probably guess my answer. I'm a grumpy introvert and
I don't like sharing more information about myself with corporations
than I need to. I fall squarely into Group #6... although I suppose if
the reward is _really_ worth it I might be convinced. But it would
take a heck of a lot more than a cosmetic item (or three).
Where do you draw the line?
I forgot we sometimes do these Completely Random and Pointless Polls.
It's not that I don't have ideas for new polls; I just forget to write
them to the newsgroup! But I remembered now, so let's do another one!
//////
Congratulations! You just installed a new game. The first thing the
game does when it starts up is asks you to link your Steam account (or
create a new account) with the publisher's newest online service. It's completely optional (you can play the game without), but it's
otherwise completely painless; it won't require more than two or three clicks, and you'll get an exciting bonus (let's say a fancy new hat
for your character to wear) if you do so.
Do you link the account?
1) It doesn't ask me because I'm registered
with every possible service already!
2) Heck yeah! No downsides and I get a hat?
Click-click, I'm all in, baby!
3) Well, I really don't want to... but that is a
nice hat, so okay.
4) I would if the reward was better. Maybe if you
give me two hats?
5) Sorry, even two clicks is too much work.
6) No, I never join a group that would have me
as a member.
7) I don't play any new games.
//////
Okay, you all can probably guess my answer. I'm a grumpy introvert and
I don't like sharing more information about myself with corporations
than I need to. I fall squarely into Group #6... although I suppose if
the reward is _really_ worth it I might be convinced. But it would
take a heck of a lot more than a cosmetic item (or three).
Where do you draw the line?
On Tue, 26 Aug 2025 23:23:11 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
I forgot we sometimes do these Completely Random and Pointless Polls.
It's not that I don't have ideas for new polls; I just forget to write
them to the newsgroup! But I remembered now, so let's do another one!
//////
Congratulations! You just installed a new game. The first thing the
game does when it starts up is asks you to link your Steam account (or
create a new account) with the publisher's newest online service. It's
completely optional (you can play the game without), but it's
otherwise completely painless; it won't require more than two or three
clicks, and you'll get an exciting bonus (let's say a fancy new hat
for your character to wear) if you do so.
Do you link the account?
1) It doesn't ask me because I'm registered
with every possible service already!
2) Heck yeah! No downsides and I get a hat?
Click-click, I'm all in, baby!
3) Well, I really don't want to... but that is a
nice hat, so okay.
4) I would if the reward was better. Maybe if you
give me two hats?
5) Sorry, even two clicks is too much work.
6) No, I never join a group that would have me
as a member.
7) I don't play any new games.
//////
Okay, you all can probably guess my answer. I'm a grumpy introvert and
I don't like sharing more information about myself with corporations
than I need to. I fall squarely into Group #6... although I suppose if
the reward is _really_ worth it I might be convinced. But it would
take a heck of a lot more than a cosmetic item (or three).
Where do you draw the line?
I don't "draw the line." There is no line. If I'm in the mood, an account gets linked, but not usually with a game. Usually it's with delivery services, social, etc. For delivery services and social, even with no
reward being offered, I'm in.
I'm not sure I've ever been asked by a *game* to link an external
account. Just annoying BS like Rockstar Social Club.
If a game asked, I'd guess I am a 4, but I have no real opposition to
feeding these guys my gaming data. It's not like I'm going to be the
center of some scandal because I accidentally added "Being a DIK" to my GOG.com library. They can do whatever they want with it so long as
there's an "unsubscribe" option on the inevitable marketing emails.
Tbh, I like to receive properly targeted marketing appeals. It's better
than the spaghetti on the wall approach. If the ads are going to be
constant and annoying anyway, they may as well be relevant.
On Wed, 27 Aug 2025 08:42:49 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:
Poll #3,735,928,559 might be an exaggeration, eh?
I mean... even if it feels that way.
(Cue Carl Sagan: Biiiiilions and biiiiilons)
Heh. I keep track of what questions I've asked, but not the numbering.
So I'm forced to make random guesses as to what number comes next.
Maybe I need to put all this information in spreadsheet.
(For those of you interested (let me count, umm... yeah,
that's exactly ZERO of you are interested) we've done 32
CRAP polls since 2019. 34 if you include duplicate questions
from back before I kept track of what questions I asked)
So maybe this time I was a _little_ bit off. ;-)
Do you link the account?
1) It doesn't ask me because I'm registered
with every possible service already!
2) Heck yeah! No downsides and I get a hat?
Click-click, I'm all in, baby!
3) Well, I really don't want to... but that is a
nice hat, so okay.
4) I would if the reward was better. Maybe if you
give me two hats?
5) Sorry, even two clicks is too much work.
6) No, I never join a group that would have me
as a member.
7) I don't play any new games.
//////
Okay, you all can probably guess my answer. I'm a grumpy introvert and
I don't like sharing more information about myself with corporations
than I need to. I fall squarely into Group #6... although I suppose if
the reward is _really_ worth it I might be convinced. But it would
take a heck of a lot more than a cosmetic item (or three).
Where do you draw the line?
On 8/26/2025 8:23 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
Do you link the account?
1) It doesn't ask me because I'm registered
with every possible service already!
2) Heck yeah! No downsides and I get a hat?
Click-click, I'm all in, baby!
3) Well, I really don't want to... but that is a
nice hat, so okay.
4) I would if the reward was better. Maybe if you
give me two hats?
5) Sorry, even two clicks is too much work.
6) No, I never join a group that would have me
as a member.
7) I don't play any new games.
//////
Okay, you all can probably guess my answer. I'm a grumpy introvert and
I don't like sharing more information about myself with corporations
than I need to. I fall squarely into Group #6... although I suppose if
the reward is _really_ worth it I might be convinced. But it would
take a heck of a lot more than a cosmetic item (or three).
Where do you draw the line?
6. I can't remember signing up for anything unless it was required to
play their damn game.
I still might do it eventually, if A. it wasn't an AAA evil magacorp.
and B. I really like more than one of their games, and C. I thought the
hat was cool.
I forgot we sometimes do these Completely Random and Pointless Polls.
It's not that I don't have ideas for new polls; I just forget to write
them to the newsgroup! But I remembered now, so let's do another one!
//////
Congratulations! You just installed a new game. The first thing the
game does when it starts up is asks you to link your Steam account (or
create a new account) with the publisher's newest online service. It's completely optional (you can play the game without), but it's
otherwise completely painless; it won't require more than two or three clicks, and you'll get an exciting bonus (let's say a fancy new hat
for your character to wear) if you do so.
Do you link the account?
1) It doesn't ask me because I'm registered
with every possible service already!
2) Heck yeah! No downsides and I get a hat?
Click-click, I'm all in, baby!
3) Well, I really don't want to... but that is a
nice hat, so okay.
4) I would if the reward was better. Maybe if you
give me two hats?
5) Sorry, even two clicks is too much work.
6) No, I never join a group that would have me
as a member.
7) I don't play any new games.
//////
Okay, you all can probably guess my answer. I'm a grumpy introvert and
I don't like sharing more information about myself with corporations
than I need to. I fall squarely into Group #6... although I suppose if
the reward is _really_ worth it I might be convinced. But it would
take a heck of a lot more than a cosmetic item (or three).
Where do you draw the line?
I forgot we sometimes do these Completely Random and Pointless Polls.
It's not that I don't have ideas for new polls; I just forget to write
them to the newsgroup! But I remembered now, so let's do another one!
//////
Congratulations! You just installed a new game. The first thing the
game does when it starts up is asks you to link your Steam account (or
create a new account) with the publisher's newest online service. It's completely optional (you can play the game without), but it's
otherwise completely painless; it won't require more than two or three clicks, and you'll get an exciting bonus (let's say a fancy new hat
for your character to wear) if you do so.
Do you link the account?
1) It doesn't ask me because I'm registered
with every possible service already!
2) Heck yeah! No downsides and I get a hat?
Click-click, I'm all in, baby!
3) Well, I really don't want to... but that is a
nice hat, so okay.
4) I would if the reward was better. Maybe if you
give me two hats?
5) Sorry, even two clicks is too much work.
6) No, I never join a group that would have me
as a member.
7) I don't play any new games.
//////
Okay, you all can probably guess my answer. I'm a grumpy introvert and
I don't like sharing more information about myself with corporations
than I need to. I fall squarely into Group #6... although I suppose if
the reward is _really_ worth it I might be convinced. But it would
take a heck of a lot more than a cosmetic item (or three).
Where do you draw the line?
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