If it’s doing what is claimed, it’s autoflipping your screen to your in-game leaderboard, taking a screenshot, then OCR’ing the screenshot and looking up the player names on the Statshark site.
It’s all sort of public info, in that you can always Tab and look at that leaderboard yourself. For modes where the info about the other side is obscured (such as vehicle) on the in-game leaderboard, presumably it couldn’t pull that.
The issue here would be you have a third party app on your computer that is possibly making keystroke commands to your game client. One you paid for. That seems sort of the thing in a different context Battleeye exists to block. So me I’d wait for more info from either Gaijin and/or Statshark before risking my account: YMMV.
I don’t fully disagree with this. People should still be able to express their opinions, sure. However people shouldn’t expect their opinion to hold the same weight as the opinion of other more qualified people.
I don’t think we’d have this scale of problem if global vehicle statistics were accessible instead of having to rely on 2nd hand sources/scrutinising other player performance when it comes to discussing vehicle balance.
imo statshark/thunderskill is a net positive in spite of the issues it brings along the way
ppl opinions are measured by their capabilities on the subject. just as you believe way, way more in a graduated scientist than someone without any education on how the universe works (just one example), your opinion on wt is measured directly by your skills in the game.
just as a person without any education can also have correct opinions about the universe, a bad player can too, but what are the chances? because the person without any education is only giving his opinion without any background knowledge, based only on guesswork and beliefs, a bad player will do the same.
I don’t need a 3rd party app to figure out that the team is bad
1/3 or 1/2 of the team dying and leaving in the first 2-4 mins already lets me know that :)
And it would lead to the same thing in War Thunder. Obviously player stats need to be shown, but the last thing WT needs is more stuck up or good players making fun/insulting others because they aren’t as good.
See above: It would make WT even more toxic, and would only make the game worse for most people.
I agree, sites like Statshark and Thunderskill should be C&D, at least the portion that scrapes user stats and data should be obfuscated and inaccessible to third party websites. Vehicle stats are the only useful metrics in those sites.
Also, why are individual user stats freely available to scrape from outside sources? That’s a major privacy violation and one I would not consent to.
live game viewer aside, if your data is still accessible to players, what prevents me from going up to your profile and just punching up the data manually into excel spreadsheet that would do the same thing as statshark does?
You can still look at my profile in-game and painstakingly crunch numbers in an Excel spreadsheet if you wish, but being able to scrape the data from some backend server and then serve it to the world in a website is just creepy. There should be more friction, and Gaijin needs to get its act together by obfuscating userstats to third parties.
so your issue isnt as much as to what is done as it is with how it is done?
Should it? Since the issue seems to be with how it is done, thats not for us to deal with. Gaijin can release tools similiar to statshark at any time, making the site obsolete.
as for SR1 rating, thats merely amalgation of several statistics put into one, something that can be done by anyone manually. all statshark does is that they just expedite the process and save us all time.
Well, these websites don’t ask for user consent, they quite literally grab your data and put it up for the whole world to see. I’m not a fan of that. I’d certainly opt out if that’s an option these sites had. But they never asked anyone to begin with, that’s already a major violation of privacy and Gaijin should look into ways of stopping these sites from doing that.