We’ll be using it to see which ads are working and which aren’t. Thank you Wizards for the response and for respecting your community. I think I can speak for the community when I say that an official WOTC response on this issue would be appreciated, with that response hopefully being an apology for not disclosing the inclusion of Red Shell, and outlining plans for its removal.Įdit: Red Shell has been removed from MTG Arena. It's worth noting that this is now illegal under GDPR, and the fact that this has not been disclosed is not a good look. What does this do? It collects user information, ostensibly for developers to have data that they can analyze to improve the game, but the potential for harvesting a lot more than that is there. There are also references to Red Shell initializing in captured game logs.

Unfortunately upon searching for the RedShellSDK.dll file, I found a copy in the Arena directory.

If you are still stuck, please submit a ticket to customer support at for further assistance.I saw a thread on the steam subreddit about this spyware: Īfter reading through the thread I noticed that it only concerned steam games (as to be expected in the steam subreddit), so I decided to poke around in some other games I have.

If you are still stuck, I would recommend downloading the client directly as indicated in.

If either of those aren't the version listed above, could you please try following the steps at, as it should clear out any local cacheing issues you may be having.

If it doesn't, could I get you to visit and confirm that the version you see there is 0.2.99.

If this is 0.2.99.0, please try installing with this as it should correct the loop you are stuck in.

Right click on MTGAInstaller.exe in your downloads folder.

If it doesn't please download and confirm that it's File Version is current MTGA Launcher version of 0.2.99.0.If you haven't already, please restart your PC and try installing again to see if that resolves the issue.If possible, would you try the following troubleshooting steps.

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