Escape from Tarkov designer will prohibit dataminers and any gamers who share “concealed” details
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Battlestate Games claims that the licence agreement is violated when “illegal seepage of in-game code and databases” occurs.
Battlestate Games, the studio behind Escape From Tarkov, has officially pledged to permanently ban “all characters” found to have datamined “information that is purposefully concealed from users” and any players who discuss it.
“in-game accounts associated with datamining and/or sharing information stemming from datamining” will be banned, and “additional actions taken later,” the studio said in a statement, defining datamining as the process of “drawing out info from enormous datasets” and “prohibited seepage of in-game code and databases in order to extract info that is deliberately concealed from users.”
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The company said, “Over the past few years, there has been an increase of datamined information circulating various sites and accounts on social networks.” “While some players may believe that the creators of Escape from Tarkov are not disclosing information about hidden changes to the game, we also wish to advise that any information retrieval without principal approval is a direct breach of […] the licence contract.”
After explaining the differences between leaks and teasers, BSG added that players who “support datamining” are actually supporting “the specific individual which lags obtaining the details” and that it wasn’t “reasonable” for the development team to have its work “exposed by a dataminer.”
Statement from BSG concerning u/saiik’s datamining activities in EFT
The proclamation adds, “From the time of this declaration’s release, we will begin doing something about it towards all the characters sharing the datamined info.” All game accounts linked to datamining and/or exchanging data obtained through datamining will be banned, and any platforms found to be complicit will be warned.
Additionally, “further actions” will be taken “later on,” though Battlestate did not specify what these might be.
We do this for the majority of our community so that they can take pleasure in the events, the game, and its development as the company intended. “We appreciate your unwavering support and look forward to Tarkov’s and your role in its future.”
The Escape from Tarkov team just announced the release of a public file detailing all of the banned accounts to date due of infidelity.
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