Mflick said:
No offense, but thats straight up stupid, were you planning on suing steam? if not you just lost the worth of the games for nothing in return.
I'm sorry, but it's not "straight up stupid." There's a difference between "planning" to do something and keeping the option to do something, particularly when the "something" in question is the single punitive action that encourages companies to behave themselves. That's like saying it's stupid for a company to disband its army because its neighbor told them to, even though the country in question has no plans to invade.
You say I got nothing in return: you're wrong. Firstly, I was proven right about Valve and Steam[footnote]Seriously, check my posting history. I've always said that if they changed their TOS to something obnoxious, you were screwed if you don't like it. Go figure they do it right after I decide to think I might have been wrong about them.[/footnote]. That's not a lot, but it's not nothing, and it's a little depressing, too.
Furthermore, I also get to tell them "Fuck you" when they tried to further unbalance the playing field in their own favor. Part of the reason we, as consumers, constantly keep being forced to eat shit is because of attitudes like the ones saying my decision is "stupid" or "wrong." ("Not worth it," while a little sad IMO, is perfectly valid.) In order to keep their shinies, too many people are willing to just bend over when a company pulls the "I'm altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further," card to remind us of just who's boss.
Phlakes said:
This is literally every ToS ever. The only difference is someone along the way decided to make a big deal out of it (maybe not even intentionally) and then everyone blew it way out of proportion for some reason.
In this case, you're actually wrong about that. Until VERY recently, terms like this weren't often in user agreements, and if they were, they were very often shot down by the courts. What's changed is that, a few weeks ago, SCOTUS decided that this garbage was OK. So this is still a NEW development, so NOW is the time to make noise about it,
before it becomes a "standard."
R - the problem isn't just with Steam, any amount of boycotting will effect no change without massive change in the incentives of who runs the industry.
