Comment by unclad5968 7 days ago
The devs for the game factorio encourage players to post bugs on the forums. The devs use forums as a issue tracker and respond to bugs with fixes. I have no idea if that makes it more satisfying to report bugs or not, but I always thought it was cool.
The aversion to opt-out exists because it's associated with tech corporations tracking everything in a maliciously intransparent way, using some convoluted opt-out process as an excuse to give the illusion of respect for the user.
If a game just sends info about a crash I couldn't care less.
I disagree and think it should still be opt in. Crash reports tend to include memory dump which can easily include information about the system (environment variables) that the user did not mean to share. It's not unreasonable to pop up a dialog before uploading crash reports which also gives the user an opportunity to optionally add additional information.
In contrast, I stopped submitting bugs there because a forum is a terrible place to find and track bugs. Shame because I knew they'd be fixed by an outfit such as Wube.
I would defibitely file bugs with factorio because of the devs, but never found any. Truly amazing game.