The_Josh_Of_Clubs

To be fair, LastPass stores them online I believe - their whole shindig is that they're the "Last Password manager you'll ever need" because you can access it from basically any device.

Needless to say that introduces a security vulnerability for the sake of convenience.

I work for one of the companies on that site; basically we collect everything we possibly can about you (which is much more than you probably think) and then sell that information (generally in bulk) to companies for marketing.

At the risk of sounding like a shill for my company: I can appreciate what /u/TheGeekProfessor is doing, and I think he (she? idk) should absolutely keep it up. There's nothing wrong with opting out of those lists. It's worth mentioning, though, that we have to adhere to very strict privacy laws that vary from country to country and take information security very seriously. Not only that, but your individual data isn't worth very much - most of our value comes from being able to combine that data to provide very specific subsets that meet a certain criteria. For example, we're the reason you get certain credit card offers in your mail and your friend who has shit credit gets a different set of offers. Depending on the online services you use, we may be responsible for some of the ads you get there as well.

Just saying, we're not some evil Big Brother gathering your data so that we can take over the world - nor do we just take your data and throw it on a pile on someone's desk so that anyone who wants to can take a peek. Especially considering recent events, we take privacy and security very seriously. Opt-out if you want though, I couldn't give a shit less - and we'll still have plenty to sell so I doubt my company does either. Not only that, but I obviously can't speak for any of the other companies on that list - have no idea how they run things.

Speaking as a gamer, I generally place a greater value on games with more play time. If it's stretched out and terrible I'll quit playing, if it's short and amazing I'll still love it - but I don't tend to replay most games. You'll never see me spend $50-$60 on a game that I'm only going to get a few hours of play time out of. Limbo comes to mind as an amazing game that I felt totally ripped off by because of how short it was for the $10 I paid for it.

If I were to subscribe to this my value of it would be directly related to how much I use it. If I only use it 4-5 hours a month it's not worth $10 to me. If I play it 100 hours a month it's worth the bucks.

Makes sense to scale pay based on play time to me. The more time a game gets users to spend on their platform the more value the users feel they're getting out of it.

I think the platform they're working on is a great way for those smaller games to get attention and play time. I'm one of those people who has much more time on my hands to play games than I used to, and it's what I spend the majority of my time outside of work doing. If I have to choose between spending $10 on a game that will keep me entertained for 2 hours and $10 on a game that will keep me entertained for 20 I'm (usually) going to pick the longer of the two. Don't get me wrong, though: if a game is garbage or just "not my thing" I'm not going to spend those 20 hours on it just because I can, I'll move on to something better.

With something like Jump I'm much more likely to play those smaller games that have strong mechanics and/or storytelling. Plus, from a business perspective it absolutely makes sense to pay out more to the games that are adding a higher value to the platform by soaking up users' time.

That's true. I had tried using LastPass once and had it scramble all my passwords for me, but then the shit didn't work right and I basically just lost access to a ton of online accounts - some of which I was never able to regain access for. If you're able to get it to work, though, it might actually be more secure than doing it yourself.

I just can't help but imagine the chaos on the day that LastPass gets hacked. May never happen, but if it did that would be nightmare-level stuff.