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Have you ever read an EULA for an mmo?
mehhem
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So last night I thought to myself... Does anyone actually read the EULA for a video game? I thought of the guy who got banned from WoW because he played in China, when he is subbed to the American servers and supposedly it says somewhere in the eula that you can't do that. I also thought of gold farming. We all know its bad, but everyone I knew in WoW for the 1 year I played bought gold online. Back during my SWG time people were selling their jedi accounts left and right, myself included and I don't think anyone got in trouble for it. So I guess I'm just curious if anyone reads it and actually follows it; or is it just like cops and robbers.... Its ok til you get caught...
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While I have read one before it really is somewhat pointless. I mean you went to the store, paid your $50.00, took the game home, installed it, created an account, subscribed to it with your credit card and then what? you are going to say "I decline" to the EULA and not play the game? .... come on!
It could say "and I give you guys my first born" and I would still click accept.
i actually read it because you never know if its gonna say somthing like "if you cheat on this game we have the right to sue you for your house and you will give it to us" im afraid of finding that some day
Mehhem where that icon from? I think I seen it on youtube somewhere. =/
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but later on i just accepted
my way of thinging goes this:
if noone bitches then its got to be ok
if there is something nasty inside there will be for sure some people wo will find / feel it
so we should hear about it
if we dont hear anything it shall be allright
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Yeah I don't think I've ever read one.
I've skimmed them before, but not what I call reading.
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The best part of a EULA is the fact that a good portion wont hold up in court. Its just like Nintendo Sony and Microsoft telling you that you cant create backups of your games, even though US law says we can. Its mostly there to mess with people. I read em when im bored 8 )
You actually dont get what EULA stands for ?
It is huge pointless piece of text that can be easilly summed in this few words :
If you sign this contract you agree that we can do whatever you want when ever we want. Nothing we do in game, to your user account or even to your computer will ever make us responsible!
If you say YES you are allowed to play the game.
If you say NO , you just wasted 50$ for which youy can not get refound...
What is your choice ?
"Before this battle is over all the world will know that few...stood against many." - King Leonidas
The usual choice, click agree and totally ignore anything it says.
Safe in the knowledge that If they ban me, I can always cancel the payment retrospectively because I paid by card.
I only read EULAs for certain beta games.
Problem with the EULA regarding sold accounts is, if you put it up on auction, they can't prove it's you doing it anyways. They basically have to say to a GM "Hey I bought this account from some guy" to have anything occur to them.
And I read the EQ one halfway through before my eyes crossed. Play nice policy is the better thing to read for the kiddies who like to swear their heads off and grief, heh.
That said, some of these terms just plain contradict with actual written law as expressed by our legislature. No judge is ever going to abide by some of those terms. Still, it doesn't hurt publishers to put it there.
Nope. Basically all the EULA says is that they have the right to cancel my account if I do something they don't like. Big deal. My EULA with them says that I have the right to cancel my account if they do something I don't like. So, basically, we're even. My EULA is just alot shorter, and comes without all the costs they pay attorneys for.
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Good thread.
I've read a couple EULA's but nowadays I just click 'accept'. I know that unless I do something to cause them to lose revenue I'm not going to be on the hook for anything except the account itself.
Funny: http://mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/115313
I typically read them -- it's a quick skim. Many people are quick to skip EULAs because tthey say they are pretty standard and/or won't hold up in a court of law but the fact remains, it's worth your while to read them. Say you're playing a game and break some rule in it which gets you tossed out. Okay, now you can't play your game or, if desperate enough, spend more money to open another account. You've now wasted money (and some amount of time if you have to relevel characters). OR, say you want to take the publisher to court to get your account back and maybe a bit of compensation. Now you're out more time (not playing plus, trivial things like this usually take a while to hit the docket) and a LOT more money (because you're paying legal fees.) Do you think you can put together a class action suit because you broke a questionable rule that others seem to abide by? Do you think you're going to recoup damages for time lost not playing your game?
Dream. On.
Just read the EULA before clicking accept and so long as you abide by it and don't act like an ass, you can enjoy your game at your leisure.
I'd be interested to see some hard statistics on how many players buy gold. Does not buying gold make me unique and saintly in my virtuousness? Or is it something about you that attracts that kind of person?
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Trust me, they don't read the Eula either. What's the point? If you want to play the game, you have to agree to the Eula, not matter what's in there. Why bother to read it if you want to play?
Let's say we're talking about your favorite upcoming MMORPG, whether it's Pirates of the Burning Sea, the Burning Crusade expansion, Vanguard, Age of Conan, or Warhammer.
Is there anyone that's NOT going to play that game because of something they read in the Eula?