Hi,
My clan is trying to get a lan house sponsorship but the owner thinks that it’s necessary to pay for a license to run Enemy Territory on the lan computers. Is this true? Does he have to pay? or even get a license? or can he just install the game freeware like everyone else does?
Please reply,
thx in advance,
:jah:
PS: pardon my poor english :moo:
You’ve answered your own question.
Free game=free. he doesn’t need licesnes for the LAN.
read a copy of the licensing agreement that came with the game. it should be near that thing called the manual no one seems to read.
hehe, even if a big, red RTFM appaers every startup, i´m sure nobody will do it :blah:
the question is…
every game has that EULA, or Licence Agreement, and each one of them forbids the using the game for a pay-per-play basis, but some lan houses sign contracts and pay fee´s for using the game in their lan houses on that pay-per-play basis even with that clause, because they have settled agreements with the company that controls the game rights. What he is tryng and also myself is can this game be used on a pay-per-play basis? do we have to pay anything to the editors even though its a free game, if so who can inform us of that and of the permits / licenses we need to have the game on the lan house as it is requested by our country laws that each game on a pay-per-play basis has its own license.
please do not respond “ITS A FREE GAME”, we dont want that kind of answers, our question is pretty clear and its made from a lan house wanting to put this game on a pay-per-play basis, respecting all the software license agreements and all…
I’m assuming that you’ve read the EULA thoroughly (I haven’t: tbh I can’t even find one (I’ve just looked)).
A public forum isn’t the right place to look for definitive answers to questions like this (coz even if you get the answer you want to hear it may not be right)… I recommend you contact Activision / SD direct for an answer.
Wolf ET\Docs\License.rtf
a. rent the Software;
b. sell the Software;
c. lease or lend the Software;
d. offer the Software on a “pay-per-play” basis;
but on a Lan u don’t actually rent the software… u rent the computers and the net connection… u can either play games or type something in word or use mIRC… that ain’t renting games… or is it?..
can someone from splashdamage help me on this?
i’ve sent e-mails to id-soft but they keep sending me a automatic response mail…
pls help
thx
:jah:
I think you need to clarify how they’ll be used on the lan. if getting people in there to play and you do not charge them to play, then you’re fine I think. if you charge a per seat charge, then you will run afoul of the licensing agreement I would think.
You might want to re-examine the revenue model for the lan house so that all your revenue is not derived from the games per say. There are probably things you could do that would be more profitable in that type of business than relying strictly on the revenue from game playing.
me
jah, I think the point that the EULA is trying to get at is that you cannot profit from the game without letting them in for a share. If you didn’t charge the customers for using the hardware then I don’t think you have to worry about a licence (getting a bunch of people together for a LAN party, for example). But if people have to pay a rental fee to use the computers, it doesn’t matter if the software installed on them is free. The company can still reserve the right to require a licence.
Still, I’d email SplashDamage and they can tell you want’s going on or who you need to talk with.
RK