Posted by Ivy

Some random person on the internet shouldn't be entitled to my location.

Well, you better not play any games online then because Nintendo, Microsoft and a lot of mobile games like Clash of Clans enable it!  

Posted by Ivy

Some random person on the internet shouldn't be entitled to my location.

You shouldn't approach the internet as though it's some safe-haven for all your information. If you're going to use the internet, you need to realize that your information is always being collected, distributed and sold. Despite the one post above, Graal doesn't need any special permissions to determine your location. It's based on IP, which every single website you ever load has access to.

Graal simply narrows it down to a location as vague as an entire country, which isn't that bad. It's fairly easy to just input your IP into a website and it'll narrow it down to the city you live in.  

Posted by Dusty

You shouldn't approach the internet as though it's some safe-haven for all your information. If you're going to use the internet, you need to realize that your information is always being collected, distributed and sold. Despite the one post above, Graal doesn't need any special permissions to determine your location. It's based on IP, which every single website you ever load has access to.

Graal simply narrows it down to a location as vague as an entire country, which isn't that bad. It's fairly easy to just input your IP into a website and it'll narrow it down to the city you live in.

Myself and many others I've spoken to in game would much prefer to choose their own flag.
I want to be represented by where my family is from, not some country a game chose for me.  

You could always write in your status where you and your family are from?  

Posted by Ivy

It feels like a HUGE violation of my privacy To have a flag automatically chosen for me.

"Violation of privacy, pfft"
 

Get rekt by Rufus  

Posted by Ivy

Myself and many others I've spoken to in game would much prefer to choose their own flag.
I want to be represented by where my family is from, not some country a game chose for me.

Then put your flag on your body? The flags aren't there to represent, they're there to inform.  

Posted by Dusty

Then put your flag on your body? The flags aren't there to represent, they're there to inform.

Why should I do that when we had an option to inform others of or origins?
Don't fix what isn't broken.  

Posted by Ivy

Why should I do that when we had an option to inform others of or origins?
Don't fix what isn't broken.

You claim that you want to "represent" where your family is from, why don't you just put it as a shield or on your body. The flags on your profile is there and was always there to show the location of the player  

Posted by Ivy

Why should I do that when we had an option to inform others of or origins?
Don't fix what isn't broken.

People don't look at your flag and think "this is where they originated from" they think "this is where they live" which is the whole purpose of the flag system.

As Admiral said, you can easily write this information in your status. If you don't care enough to put it there then it most likely isn't as big of a deal as you are making it out to be.  

Posted by Ash Ketchum

You claim that you want to "represent" where your family is from, why don't you just put it as a shield or on your body. The flags on your profile is there and was always there to show the location of the player

Shields aren't free gtfo out of here with that

Posted by Colin

People don't look at your flag and think "this is where they originated from" they think "this is where they live" which is the whole purpose of the flag system.

As Admiral said, you can easily write this information in your status. If you don't care enough to put it there then it most likely isn't as big of a deal as you are making it out to be.

I reserve my status for other things.  

Why is this still open? It's been confirmed that this isn't going away (which is a good thing) so no more debate.  

Posted by Ivy

Shields aren't free gtfo out of here with that



I reserve my status for other things.

<img src=guigames_flag_tt.png>

There you go, for your status.

Alternatively:

<body background=guigames_flag_tt.png>  

this sucks because now the terrible people on this game have narrowed down their prey to a country with hundreds of millions people living in it, graal is putting all of our lives at risk.  

Posted by Ivy

Shields aren't free gtfo out of here with that

Type your country on Taylor. Its common sense. If you argue that your country isn't there as a shield, then thats your fault for not wanting to make one yourself and pay for it.

If really wanted to represent your family it wouldn't be such a big deal. Stop trying to change something just to benefit yourself in showing off with your countries flag. NO ONE CARES where you're from