Comments on: ECA’s Halpin Warns Gamers to Read EULAs http://news.filefront.com/ecas-halpin-warns-gamers-to-read-eulas/ News for Gamers Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:36:36 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Rollett http://news.filefront.com/ecas-halpin-warns-gamers-to-read-eulas/comment-page-1/#comment-114951 Rollett Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:52:34 +0000 http://news.filefront.com/ecas-halpin-warns-gamers-to-read-eulas/#comment-114951 Should read some MMO EULA's.... Most of them basicly say you bought this game but we still own it and we have the rights to end it at any time.. everything you do in the game is ours.. not yours and your only barrowing it. but we cant take it when ever we want. Should read some MMO EULA’s…. Most of them basicly say you bought this game but we still own it and we have the rights to end it at any time.. everything you do in the game is ours.. not yours and your only barrowing it. but we cant take it when ever we want.

]]> By: havoc of smeg http://news.filefront.com/ecas-halpin-warns-gamers-to-read-eulas/comment-page-1/#comment-114812 havoc of smeg Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:36:52 +0000 http://news.filefront.com/ecas-halpin-warns-gamers-to-read-eulas/#comment-114812 i suggest this guy actually TRY reading a EULA. the last time i tried reading one, i ended up with a bleeding nose, headache and leprachaun related hallucinations! i suggest this guy actually TRY reading a EULA.
the last time i tried reading one, i ended up with a bleeding nose, headache and leprachaun related hallucinations!

]]> By: Gauldar http://news.filefront.com/ecas-halpin-warns-gamers-to-read-eulas/comment-page-1/#comment-114777 Gauldar Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:30:24 +0000 http://news.filefront.com/ecas-halpin-warns-gamers-to-read-eulas/#comment-114777 I think alot of this started with Ultima Online where customers sued them due to downtime in game, then everybody started to bring in the lawyers to make sure it never happened again. I also remembered a time when I played Asheron's Call where the servers were down for hours to fix an error in the EULA. I am curious though, I myself am one of those guilty of clicking accept to get myself to that gaming goodness whenever I get a PC game. The EULA is quite an over-inflated document, I am curious to know which sections of it can be the most exploitable. This could lead to allowing things in games just as bad as the Star-Force copy protection, or worse. I think alot of this started with Ultima Online where customers sued them due to downtime in game, then everybody started to bring in the lawyers to make sure it never happened again. I also remembered a time when I played Asheron’s Call where the servers were down for hours to fix an error in the EULA. I am curious though, I myself am one of those guilty of clicking accept to get myself to that gaming goodness whenever I get a PC game. The EULA is quite an over-inflated document, I am curious to know which sections of it can be the most exploitable. This could lead to allowing things in games just as bad as the Star-Force copy protection, or worse.

]]> By: FrostPaw http://news.filefront.com/ecas-halpin-warns-gamers-to-read-eulas/comment-page-1/#comment-114736 FrostPaw Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:43:45 +0000 http://news.filefront.com/ecas-halpin-warns-gamers-to-read-eulas/#comment-114736 The Problem with EULAs in general is that by the time your game is installed and you are wanting to play you've already purchased it. To then say "do you accept?" is a bit of a no brainer since you bought the game youre going to want to play it. Its a form of blackmail in my opinion, you've already paid for the game now no matter what the EULA says you have to accept or you can't get what you paid for. Who really wants to spend an hour reading through a legal contract in order to play a computer game? Movies don't make you read through an hour of legal documents before the cinema will let you enter so clearly theres something wrong with the way computer games are being designed. The Problem with EULAs in general is that by the time your game is installed and you are wanting to play you’ve already purchased it. To then say “do you accept?” is a bit of a no brainer since you bought the game youre going to want to play it.

Its a form of blackmail in my opinion, you’ve already paid for the game now no matter what the EULA says you have to accept or you can’t get what you paid for. Who really wants to spend an hour reading through a legal contract in order to play a computer game? Movies don’t make you read through an hour of legal documents before the cinema will let you enter so clearly theres something wrong with the way computer games are being designed.

]]> By: erathoniel http://news.filefront.com/ecas-halpin-warns-gamers-to-read-eulas/comment-page-1/#comment-114612 erathoniel Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:08:50 +0000 http://news.filefront.com/ecas-halpin-warns-gamers-to-read-eulas/#comment-114612 What would help is a list of bad EULAs to shame some companies into improvement. :wink: What would help is a list of bad EULAs to shame some companies into improvement. :wink:

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