Do not install this game. I made it to the Terms and conditions, specifically the privacy policy. This game records more data than they could ever possibly require to keep their game updated and the experience good. Please read the policy before you play. The company is based in China, servers in China and you allow them to sell any data they take from you to other third party chinese vendors. Their privacy policy states they will record the following information: * software installed on your system, including AV and threat protection * All hardware, even if it doesnt pertain to the game * Recording of what you do, when the game is launched, whether or not its the main window or as they call it the "user experience" * Network filters, logs. IP addresses and connection info Now some of this is covered by other games and it is accepted risk, but this game is recording far more than it is required to do, its obvious they have an extra revenue stream selling data. Edit: People keep adding me on steam either just to moan about my review or to be an ass. What else do we have here in the privacy policy lets see! * shellcodes loaded by the game process, shellcodes typically loaded by a process that hosts cheat tools, shellcodes loaded by processes that are suspected of being a host process for cheat tools in the operating system; information related to ongoing processes, drivers, and other executable codes * the location of your device when you use our services, such as from the GPS, WiFi, compass, accelerometer or other sensors in your device * Information about what other software you have used and how you have used them And much much more :D .... if its acceptable to you, to hand over far more data than is necessary then go ahead (but you're an idiot) I dont want you to contact me about it though.

The only person that wasn't a bot in my lobby called me the N word

---{Graphics}--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ Paint.exe ---{Gameplay}--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It‘s just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Starring at walls is better ☐ Just don‘t ---{Audio}--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ Earrape ---{Audience}--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Human ☑ Lizards ☑ Cats (but no furries because that stuff is gay) ---{PC Requirements}--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boiiiiii ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{Difficulity}--- ☐ Just press ‚A‘ ☐ Easy ☐ Significant brain usage ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{Grind}--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☑ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isnt necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You‘ll need a second live for grinding ---{Story}--- ☑ Story? ☐ Text or Audio floating around ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It‘ll replace your life ---{Game Time}--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☑ To infinity and beyond ---{Price}--- ☑ It’s free! ☐ Worth the price ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{Bugs}--- ☐ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☑ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

Prepares to install game *Reads Term of Agreement: We are going to harvest all of your information - personal and public* Me: Not today, Satan. *Cancels Install* *Leaves review warning others*

My 1TB porn stash is now in the hands of the chinese government.

Edit (Feb 7, 2019): Okay wow I didn't expect this review to blow up like that. Just to clarify, I'm not accusing the company of actually misusing data or violating their privacy policy. They do clearly list what data they collect; it's up to you to decide whether or not you trust them with the security of all that data. (I'm also not sure if they've updated their privacy policy since then, so this might all be irrelevant.) Personally, I feel that there's too great of a risk of misuse when so much detailed information is collected from so many users. Obviously, nobody cares about your personal, individual data, but the possibility of mass-profiling people must look pretty appealing to large entities and/or malicious individuals. Imagine all this information being leaked and combined with full names, usernames, emails, and passwords from previous leaks of other websites and services, all neatly compiled so that bots can commence mass spam and phishing operations. Or maybe you're well-known enough for people to actually care about you; these people would now potentially have a directory with a ton of your own private info to be used against you. So again, it's your choice to make. If you trust the company and don't think the risk of potential misuse is a big deal, then feel free to play. (Also, no, I wasn't contacted by them or anything. I just logged back on to see 350+ notifications from this review and figured I should clear things up with a more neutral tone. When I wrote my initial review, I wasn't expecting it to be read by tens of thousands of people, so it was pretty aggressive and sloppy.) ======================== I've read the top reviews relating to this game's privacy policy, but upon installing and reading through it myself... It's much worse than those comments lead me to believe. Their 'Anti-Cheat' system makes trojan viruses look legitimate. The sheer amount of data they collect from your system is an abhorrent violation of their users' privacy. Take a look for yourself:

Security-Related Information: Basic hardware information (manufacturer, model number, serial number information, input devices and displays), operating system information, machine codes for security authentication, user account information, network information, network filters, handle information, information about installed anti-virus software, information related to script (plug-in) in browser, process files and memory data during Game play, driver information loaded during Game play, dump file that records crash details when a crash occurs, virus interception information in anti-virus software, installed script (plug-in) data, running script (plug-in) data, data of computer process which may used by script (plug-in), user behaviour and status that may be related to plug-in use, event tracing, known files related to cheat tools, debug tools, virtual machine tools, paths, hashes and hooks in use when the Game is running, image files, memory image, shellcode loaded by the Game, system API calls, method calls, system procedures and related data of active windows, information on in-game modules, game screenshots and server configuration of ShadowSocks.

It starts off alright. Hardware information, what OS you're running, your account info, and some basic info about your network; these all make sense for profiling your device to prevent you from creating multiple, malicious accounts. But then it starts to get a little weird. Network filters, handle information, and info about what anti-virus you're running and everything that it has intercepted as a virus--probably so they can see which anti-virus programs rightfully detect their program as a virus and then get in contact with those companies to have it whitelisted. And then it's all downhill from there. Browser plugin information, information about what processes you're running, user behaviour (sounds like a mouse movement tracker and keylogger to me), event tracing, known cheat tool files (aka they look through your files), "paths, hashes and hooks" which is vague enough to mean a lot of different things, image files (why the f*ck?), memory image and memory data during Gameplay (oh good, they datamine through your RAM, what could go wrong?), system procedures and data of active windows and process files (they can see everything you have open in the background), and more things that I haven't even heard of. It's a like a super-trojan that you've willingly installed and waived your rights of privacy away to. I get that cheating ruins online games, but this is just way too overkill. How much can we trust this company to not misuse our data -- the data which they store in 3 different countries, potentially allowing them to skirt around laws and regulations? Even if we trust them, can we trust how securely that data is stored, transferred, handled, and processed across several countries and hundreds of loose employees? If there were a data breach, just how much information can an attacker acquire from their users? Our name, address, and whatever information happens to still be in RAM, such as passwords, bank info, social security, etc.? This game looks like a nightmare for relatively harmless in-game hackers, but a goldmine to criminals looking for a massive payload of personal data. No anti-cheat system is worth this much privacy violation. I'd recommend avoiding this game until they improve their privacy policy.

Atleast it's not fortnite

GAME TRYS TO GET AHOLD OF USER DATA

what a great game , the guns actaully hit what u aim at

Why must this game require admin user privelidges. This represents a huge security vulnerability for the OS. Please upvote this comment so the developers fix this issue. No steam game on the market requires this level of access so what makes this game special devs? Edit: No Steam game or any game for that matter should require the administrator account to play a game. That's just lazy development.* The game is great, I've played it a lot at a friend's... but this has more to do with networking and how the OS interacts with the open internet. I won't go into detail because quite frankly it means explaining how the windows OS works which is unlike unix and linux systems. For those of you that are in denial about it just because you want to play games then perhaps y'all should grow up just a little bit instead of imagining me as some paranoid kid when you can't understand my post :)

The privacy policy and collection of data is a joke.

Nobody's gonna read this review, so I'll just say I'm gay !

Better than PUBG

Game is mad fun but is sending my system info and keystroke info to a location in china, originating from the root folder. Uninstall ASAP Mad bummy

A friendly reminder that Tencent makes this game as well as LoL or CoC. Tencent is one of the biggest companies in the world, controlled by the CCP and created e.g. WeChat. WeChat is currently used as a tool for censorship as well as mass surveillance and subsequently responsible for actions taken based on these information. WeChat is used to identify and monitor dissidents. This lead to people beeing sent to jail without a fair trial for practicing Falun Gong or beeing underground christians, killing them and harvesting their organs. China is not a legal state, it is a police state. China is engaging in a prosecution of minorities some consider genocidal since 1998 (google: Prosecution of the Falun Gong, Christians or Uyghurs ) that killed thousands of innocents and oppresses its people, Tencent directly supports this e.g. via WeChat. It has been a political topic since then and it's the subject of multiple governmental publications e.g. the senates of the US or the EU parliaments multiple condemnations of Chinas human rights abuses. Tencent is also a victim of the CCP but a co-perpetrator aswell. I encourage you to not support any company beeing directly involved in human rights abuses and encourage you to make your own picture about Tencent.

Not fortnite

hippity hoppity your data is now my property

The only person that wasn't a bot in my lobby called me the N word

EDIT Removed Solo and Duo. THUMBS DOWN. Played this game in Alpha. See my 4 steps to profit: 1. get naked 2.get truck 3. run people over 4. when they finally kill you see the sadness in their eyes when they get no loot off of your body. PROFIT!

I was banned for no reason. I have 270+ hours in this game, and have spent about $50 in micro-transactions. If I spent that money on a free game, why would I cheat? The ANTI-Cheat system is trash. I always see REAL hackers, report them, and they don't get banned. However, an honest player gets banned for no reason.

You can get a monster truck

As a Chinese, I really hate that Tencent's software will over-collect user data to improve their information and network service platform. I think it's normal for everyone to protest, and I agree with it. But now I see a lot of comments that are ridiculous. They bring in fake news about Trump's trade wars and politics and spyware. I wonder, what's the use of pornography on your hard drives by the Chinese government? Is there a cult-controlled nuclear silo in Montana playing ROE? If China is really sifting through your garbage, then the first objection should be us. Such inefficient extravagance is a waste of our taxpayers'money.Those silly keyboard politicians please get out of the game review area. 作为一个中国人，我确实反感腾讯的软件会过度收集用户资料来完善他们的信息和网络服务平台这个事情，我觉得大家抗议是正常的，我也赞同。 但我现在看到很多人的评论觉得可笑，他们把特朗普的贸易战和政治还有间谍软件什么的假新闻带入进来。 我就奇怪，中国政府要你们这群人硬盘里的色情影片有什么用？是不是蒙大拿州的哪个邪教徒控制的核弹发射井正在玩ROE？中国如果真的在筛选你们这堆垃圾信息，那么第一个反对的应该是我们。如此没效率的铺张浪费是在浪费我们纳税人的钱。那些愚蠢的键盘政治家请滚出游戏评论区。 My English is not good, the above are translation software, if there are errors, I am very honored. Yes, Honored.

Stay away for security reasons, this game's privacy terms let them take any and all data off your computer.

This game is my one stop shop for learning to speak and understand Chinese language. Highly recommended. 我爱中国的人 https://www.reddit.com/r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS/comments/7f72ps/an_englishchinese_glossary_for_pubg/ I can speak a little 我会说一点 Wǒ huì shuō yīdiǎn I am from the US 我来自美国 Wǒ láizì měiguó I am from seattle 我来自西雅图 Wǒ láizì xīyǎtú Do you have wechat? 你有微信吗 Nǐ yǒu wēixìn ma? where do you want to go? 你想去哪里? Nǐ xiǎng qù nǎlǐ Directions: in front 前面 qiánmiàn behind 后面 hòumiàn right side 右边 yòubiān left side 左边 zuǒbiān north 北 běi south 南 nán east 东 dōng west 西 xī Nouns: gun 枪 qiāng assault rifle 突击步枪 tū jī bù qiāng rifle 步枪 bù qiāng sniper rifle 狙击步枪 jū jī bù qiāng sniper rifle 狙 jū submachine gun 冲锋枪 chōng fēng qiāng shotgun 霰弹枪 xiàn dàn qiāng shotgun 喷子 pēn zǐ pistol 手枪 shǒu qiāng crossbow 十字弩 shí zì nǔ crossbow 弩 nǔ pan 平底锅 píng dǐ guō pan 锅 guō grenade 手榴弹 shǒuliúdàn grenade 雷 léi smoke 烟 yān Med 药 yào Medkit 医疗箱 yī liáo xiāng Medkit(Laptop) 电脑 diàn nǎo First Aid Kit 急救包 jí jiù bāo Bandage 绷带 bēng dài Adrenaline 肾上腺素 shèn shàng xiàn sù Painkiller 止痛药 zhǐ tòng yào Painkiller 止痛 zhǐ tòng Energy drink 能量饮料 néng liàng yǐn liào Energy drink 饮料 yǐn liào Gasoline 油 yóu Muzzle 枪口 qiāng kǒu Compensator 补偿 bǔ cháng Suppressor 消音 xiāo yīn Flash Hider 消焰 xiāo yàn Iron sights 机械瞄具 Jīxiè miáo jù Iron sights 机瞄 jī miáo Red dot 红点 Hóng diǎn Holographic sight 全息 quán xī 2x sight 两倍镜 liǎng bèi jìng 4x scope 4倍镜 Sìbèi jìng 8x scope 8倍镜 Bābèi jìng 15x scope 15倍镜 Shíwǔbèi jìng Choke 收束器 shōu shù qì Grip 握把 wò bǎ Vertical Grip 垂直握把 chuí zhí wò bǎ Vertical Grip 垂直 chuí zhí Angled Grip 直角握把 zhí jiǎo wò bǎ Angled Grip 直角 zhí jiǎo Magazine 弹夹 dàn jiá Quickdraw Mag 快速弹夹 kuài sù dàn jiá Quickdraw Mag 快速 kuài sù Extended Mag 扩容弹夹 kuò róng dàn jiá Extended Mag 扩容 kuò róng Stock 枪托 qiāng tuō Tactical Stock 战术枪托 zhàn shù qiāng tuō Tactical Stock(Gun Butt) 枪屁股 qiāng pì gǔ Bullet Loop 子弹袋 zǐ dàn dài Cheek Pad 托腮板 tuō sāi bǎn Ammo 子弹 zǐ dàn Five five six(556) 五五六 wǔ wǔ liù Seven six two(762) 七六二 qī liù èr 9 millimeter(9mm) 九毫米 jiǔ háo mǐ Point 45(.45) 点四五 diǎn sì wǔ 12 Gauge 十二号 shí èr hào shotgun ammo 喷子子弹 pēn zǐ zǐ dàn Magnum(AWM) 马格南 mǎ gé nán Helmet 头盔 tóu kuī Helmet(head) 头 tóu Vest 防弹衣 fáng dàn yī vest(armor) 甲 jiǎ Backpack 背包 bèi bāo Backpack 包 bāo Ghillie Suit 吉利服 jí lì fú Level 1 一级 yī jí Level 2 二级 èr jí Level 3 三级 sān jí Example: Level 1 Helmet 一级头 yī jí tóu Level 3 Backpack 三级包 sān jí bāo Vehicle 车 chē UAZ(Jeep) 吉普 jí pǔ Dacia(sedan) 轿车 jiào chē Motorcycle 摩托 mó tuō 3-seat Motorcycle 三人摩托 sān rén mó tuō 3-seat Motorcycle(tricycle) 三轮 sān lún Buggy(Off-road vehicle) 越野车 yuè yě chē Buggy 蹦蹦车 bèng bèng chē Buggy(kart) 卡丁车 kǎ dīng chē Boat 船 chuán container 集装箱 jí zhuāng xiāng squad 队 duì teammate 队友 duìyǒu enemy 敌人 dírén enemy squad 一队敌人 yī duì dírén top of the hill 山顶 shāndǐng under the hill 山下 Shānxià middle of the hill 山坡 shānpō red house 红房子 hóng fángzi blue house 蓝色的房子 lán sè de fángzi shack 厕所 cèsuǒ window 窗口 chuāngkǒu airdrop 空投 kōngtóu loot 舔包 tiǎn bāo Map 地图 dì tú Places Military Base(Airport) 机场 jī chǎng School 学校 xué xiào School District Apartments 学区房 xué qū fáng Prison 监狱 jiān yù Hospital 医院 yī yuàn Ruins 废墟 fèi xū Water Town 水城 shuǐ chéng Power Plant 电厂 diàn chǎng Shelter(Bomb Bunker) 防空洞 fáng kōng dòng Shooting Range 靶场 bǎ chǎng Farm 农场 nóng chǎng Lumber Mill 伐木场 fá mù chǎng Quarry 采石场 cǎi shí chǎng Ferry Pier(Fishing village) 渔村 yú cūn Swamp Town(Swamp) 沼泽 zhǎo zé Pochinki(Town P) P城 P chéng Georgopol(Port G) G港 G gǎng North Georgopol(Uptown) 上城区 shàng chéng qū South Georgopol(Downtown) 下城区 xià chéng qū Mylta(Town M) M城 M chéng Yasnaya Polyana(Town Y) Y城 Y chéng Novorepnoye(Port N) N港 N gǎng Rozhok(Town R) R城 R chéng Gatka(Town G) G城 G chéng Kameshki(Town K) K城 K chéng Lipovka(Town L) L城 L chéng Primorsk(Port P) P港 P gǎng Severny(Town S) S城 S chéng Zharki(Town Z) Z城 Z chéng Phrases: Let's go! Let's go! 走吧! 走吧! Zǒu ba! Zǒu ba! Come come come 快过来 kuài guò lái Wait a moment 等一会 Děng yī huì Hold here 在这里卡着 Zài zhè lǐ kǎ zhe Help me! 帮我! Bāng wǒ! Here take this 这个给你 Zhège gěi nǐ Hold an angle 架枪 Jià qiāng Dont peek 别漏 Bié lòu I will peek/go out 我要出了 Wǒ yào chū le I'll cover you 我掩护你 Wǒ yǎn hù nǐ I'll lead 我带路 Wǒ dài lù Do you have 556? 你有没有 556? Nǐ yǒu méiyǒu 556? Do you need 762? 你需要762吗？ Nǐ xūyào 762 ma? The circle is closing in! 缩圈了 Suō quān le! We need to look for a car 我们需要找一辆车 Wǒmen xūyào zhǎo yī liàng chē Found a car 找到一辆车 Zhǎodào yī liàng chē Enemy is at the window 敌人在窗口 Dírén zài chuāngkǒu They are on that hill 他们在那个山上 Tāmen zài nàgè shānshàng Climb the hill 爬山 Pá shān Push the enemy(go forward and supress them) 往前压他们 Wǎng qián yā tāmen We are going to the airdrop 我们要去空投 Wǒmen yào qù kōngtóu He threw a grenade! 他丢了一颗手榴弹 Tā diūle yī kē shǒuliúdàn Good shot! 好枪 hǎo qiāng Why are you so laggy? 你怎么这么卡啊? Nǐ zěnme zhème kǎ a? Your ping is too high. 你延迟太高了 Nǐ yánchí tài gāole Caution(Voldemort-monster prone ground) 伏地魔 Fúdìmó awesome 牛逼 niú bī awesome 牛逼 niú bī awesome 六六六 liù liù liù buddy 老铁 lǎo tiě Play passively 苟着点 Gǒu zhe diǎn They are camping 他们在阴 Tāmen zài yīn It's poor here(no loot) 这里很穷 Zhè lǐ hěn qióng Carry me, pro 大佬带带我 Dà lǎo dài dài wǒ Literally unplayable 没法玩了 méi fǎ wán le curse hacker(hang your mom) 挂逼死妈 Guà bī sǐ mā! F--- your mom! 肏你妈 Cào nǐmā! Need validation for: Pick me up! 接我！ Jiē wǒ!

The best battle royal game on the market right now! I would recommend this game to anyone if it wasn't for their privacy policy. Link to privacy policy. Why Tencent, why did you have to ruin it with a (in my opinion) terrible privacy policy.

New privacy policy

Edit: (Tencent updated their policy, which they claim was on November 20th. Which is weird because I wrote this review on December 23rd and it was not updated. Tencent send me a message on steam clarifying this. They updated their policy in game on November 20th. And made an error in updating it on their site, which they did on December 26th. Anyway here are some of the things they collect about you according to their privacy policy, I'm going to split this one into two parts, Hardware/System settings and Software.

• Hardware: "when you are using the Game our security feature collects user basic hardware information (manufacturer, model number, serial number information, input devices and displays), operating system information, machine codes for security authentication, user account information, network information, network filters, handle information,"
• Software: "information about installed anti-virus software, information related to script (plug-in) in browser, process files and memory data during Game play, driver information loaded during Game play, dump file that records crash details when a crash occurs, virus interception information in anti-virus software, installed script (plug-in) data, running script (plug-in) data, data of computer process which may used by script (plug-in), user behaviour and status that may be related to plug-in use, , event tracing, known files related to cheat tools, debug tools, virtual machine tools, paths, hashes and hooks in use when the Game is running, image files, memory image, shellcode loaded by the Game, system API calls, method calls, system procedures and related data of active windows, information on in-game modules, game screenshots and server configuration of ShadowSocks"

(In the policy they say they only keep most of this data for maximum of 90 days. but some of it for as long as 10 years.)) End of edit.

Old privacy policy (might or might not be accurate):

Location Data:

• "the location of your device when you use our services, such as from the GPS, WiFi, compass, accelerometer or other sensors in your device; "
• "information about what you have searched for and looked at while using our services, such as web search terms used, social media profiles visited and details of other information and content accessed or requested by you in using our services;"

Log Data:

"other information made available by you or others that gives an indication as to where you are or have been located, such as account information that indicates where you are located and Shared Information you or others post indicating your location, such as any geotag information that is embedded in any photos you make available to us."