Notch Requests The Communitys Permission To Monitor Player Data In Minecraft

Mojang's Notch is a smart guy not just in game design terms but also when it comes to managing the company's 20 million or so Minecraft players. Servers pnp89's blog The designer has published a poll on his personal blog to discover whether his cuboid customers would be comfortable with the company collecting different types of anonymized information from its players. Servers

Currently, Mojang tracks when a player logs into the game. Notch's plan is to track "non-private data" like the length of a gameplay session, your PC's OS type and whether you're playing in multiplayer or single mode, and whether you're playing through the client or the web applet. The collected information would then be shared with the community, "as usual."

"Naturally, the data sent will be completely anonymous," said Notch. It wouldn't contain your session information or user name, and it will not transmit any sensitive information you might not wish to share. We are shocked that this type of data isn't being collected to be honest. You can vote here for anonymous data collection or against it in the case of the Minecraft nation.