Why steam is a bad idea

(Nail) #101

the term EULA says it all, end user Licence agreement

(Joe999) #102

so basically if they include among the thousands of words that they own your soul and you sign without reading (people usually do), it makes it valid?

btw reading: i just went into the playstation store to download the new mk demo. of course i had to download and install some f*ing firmware update again. and i had to sign a new eula again. the nth one. sony changes it as they please. who really reads those? look at the pic. and the scrollbar …

i’m sure that because of recent events they included stuff like that i’m not allowed to alter the hardware for which i paid money. who cares? if it’s only a licensed hardware, then how come that there’s only 1 year of warranty? also, if i don’t sign it because i don’t want them to give my personal data to eg EA (that’s also in that eula now), then i’m excluded from the service. seriously?

i guess steam has a similar sized eula.

and if steam goes back to that kind of eula and simply disables an entire gaming account for which people paid hard earned money, then among other reasons steam is indeed a bad idea.

(Senethro) #103

Steam may be a bad idea if you’re an idiot who breaks the EULA publicly and leaves a trail of identifying information.

(JeP) #104

Well, as long as you’ve accepted it, yeah. Not reading is your problem as far as they’re concern.

Besides, nowadays, especially with virtual selling being more and more important, we pay a right to access a game more than we really BUY it. I’m not happy with it, it’s just a fact.

(Nail) #105

(Bullveyr) #106

It’s not like you can put everything you want in there, Law > EULA.

A small software developer once wrote “call this number and get 1000$” (or something like that) in the EULA, a few thousand downloads later the first one called the number.