Notch Asks Community For Permission To Monitor Player Data In Minecraft

Mojang's Notch is a smart guy in the field of game design and management of his company's 20,000,000plus Minecraft players is a fantastic choice. The designer posted a poll on his blog to find out whether his cuboid buddies would be comfortable with the company collecting anonymous data from their users. minecraft

Mojang currently tracks players only when they logs in to the game. Notch proposes to collect "non-private" information, such as gameplay-session length and OS type, as well as whether you are playing in multi-player or single mode, and whether you are using the client or web applet. The information gathered would be made available to the community, "as usual."

"Naturally the information you send will be completely private," said Notch. It won't contain your session information or user name, and it won't transmit any sensitive information you might not wish to share. We are amazed that this kind of data isn't being collected in the first place, but we'll admit it. You can vote here for anonymous data collection or against an anonymity if you are part of the Minecraft nation.