EULA Change - Can't Access Tomb Raider

[lacktheknack]

They can't actually do that and have it be legally binding.

And that's why it doesn't hold up in court.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

If you don't live in America, the EULA is not legally binding. So you can sign it even if you don't agree with it without any consequences. That silly stuff only works in the United Corporations of America, where people have given up their rights and freedoms pretty much without a fight. But hey, you can't blame them. Their favorite reality show was on TV at the time.

Don't blame that one on the people, it's the courts making bad rulings, and then it's not all the courts. In the ninth circuit (incidentally the one which contains Silicon Valley), EULAs are legally binding. In a few others -- I want to say the second is one of them -- there's a lot more limitations. In still others it just hasn't been tried yet.

We don't have a national standard because the Supreme Court keeps refusing to rule on the things. Not that I trust the current court to make a good ruling on the subject, especially with so many of the liberal (read: not automatically pro-business) justices being Obama appointees, and Obama being almost cartoonishly (and Biden being straight up cartoonishly) pro-IP and anti-piracy.

 

[Anthony Corrigan]

This is why I refuse to use Digital Distribution unless absolutely necessary. I refuse to buy games with "Day 1 DLC", and I buy "GOTY Editions" whenever possible. If the game does not work out of the box, it doesn't fucking work. What if I get a new console? What if my old console breaks? (which with the Xbox 360 and PS3, there's about a 7000% chance of that happening). I want to use my games without needing the internet, their servers, and more specifically, their fucking permission. You've got my money, sod off.

To this day I have NEVER connected my Xbox 360 to the internet. I don't want to. It's fine how it is. If a company makes a game that requires patches or "DLC" before it's considered a full game, I don't buy it. Mass Effect doesn't have sequels. Fallout: New Vegas doesn't exist. These games are worth shit all as discs, because without their bug fixes and revised endings they're not complete. The thing is, I can NEVER have my games taken away, switched off, or otherwise deactivated because of EULA changes. If I had Tomb Raider, I'd still have it.

As far as I'm concerned, I'd be writing back and demanding a full refund for their product. They changed the terms of the product licence, you no longer want it, get your money back. Then buy it on a console second hand.

Out of interest do you consider Diablo 2 evil because it had LOD? what about Starcraft which had Brood wars or Neverwinters nights which had Shadows of Undrentide, Hordes of the Underdark and Kingmaker or number 2 which had Mask of the Betrayer, Storm of Zehir and Mysteries of Westgate.