I think Steam just sold me a game that I can't legally play.

[Sarge034]

...I think all of you guys are missing the point.

I'm not worried about being SUED because I didn't have the chance to read part of an EULA. (Yes, I know the thread title gives that impression... but that's a secondary issue to me. The legal part seems to be the most interesting aspect of the situation, but it's certainly not the one that worried me the most.)

I'm worried about my data being sold on the open market because I installed something that uses targeted ads as part of its service, but doesn't say a thing about what data it's using or how it's using it.

This isn't a legal point. This is a "I don't have a clue what these guys are doing with my data" point. For all I know, they could be sending records of everything on my computer to a dozen advertising firms. (Yes, this has happened before with other games.) That's not something I'm willing to agree to - legal or not.

And I get that you don't need "gamespy comrade" to play the game, however there's nothing in the documentation of the game that actually SAYS that. The EULA specifically states that you need to install it. If that's wrong, great! Unfortunately the games company didn't say that, Steam Support didn't say that, and now it's irrelevant anyway (I've already got a refund for the game).

Privacy concerns are indeed legal concerns bud. The EULA is the information provided to the consumer to consent to the "service". That is how they try and enforce the "legality" of EULAs. They provide the information as to what they are going to do, what you can do about it, and say that if you don't like it to not use their "service".

 

[TheMadDoctorsCat]

There was multiplayer. Crysis used gamespy to power that multiplayer.

Its gone now. Its nonexistent. All agreements with gamespy is ended because the contract has lapsed.

You aren't agreeing to anything anymore. You are agreeing to a blank nonexistent contract. Its both legally and existentially pointless.

Hell, if I remember correctly gamespy is on its last legs. You're kinda making a big fuss over something that happened ages ago.

Its like going around saying "hey guys did you hear about WWII?! O-M-G!"

You're the fourth or fifth person to point that out, and my answer to you is the same as the one I gave to the others: I DIDN'T KNOW THAT. It wasn't mentioned anywhere in the EULA or any of the other game documentation, as far as I can see. Even Steam Support didn't say this when I e-mailed them (in all fairness, they didn't really say anything other than offering me a credit for the game).