This Week in Gaming (Week 20)

[unhealthy]

Doom is fairly cheap if you look for ASUS/Nvidia bundle codes, they seem to pair the game with pretty much everything. I could find some cheap ASUS router that costs less than the game that was part of the campaign.
Not interested personally yet though, still busy with Expedition 33 for the foreseeable future.

 

[Ripcord]

£70 in the UK, i think ill give it a miss

 

[cfenton]

By your question I can tell you (a) don't understand legalese and also (b) don't know what "content" means. I'm not inclined to explain so you'll have to do your own research or, like I said, ask your lawyer. Just beware legalese is the language of the devil and my soul is already cursed from whatevery little I've had to learn and lawyers are half-angels and half-demons that both protect us from legalese and bind us with it. Persue this matter at your own risk.

It sounds like they are saying they can use any videos or images of the game you make and share for the promotion of the game. I can't imagine that matters much for the vast majority of people playing the game.

 

[AGlezB]

It sounds like they are saying they can use any videos or images of the game you make and share for the promotion of the game.

This is what you pay for (Section 3. License):

"a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferrable, revocable license to access or use the Game solely on the device (which for the purposes of this agreement may be a PC, game console or tablet, as the case may be) for which it was supplied by Kwalee for your personal, non-commercial purposes, subject to the terms of this Agreement (the “End User License”)"

This is what they get for free (Section 5. Your Content):

[...] a transferrable, sublicensable, royalty free perpetual worldwide right and license to use, host, copy, reproduce, distribute, display, perform including perform in public, communicate to the public including making available to the public, transmit, broadcast, publish, adapt, modify and create new or derivative works of or using Your Content. [...]

What that means is you have to pay them but they don't have to pay you. You do something they don't like they can screw you. They do something you don't like: you're already screwed the moment you accepted the EULA. Google "legally binding" and "predatory practices".

I can't imagine that matters much for the vast majority of people playing the game.

It doesn't. 90% of players don't even know what an EULA is. From the rest, 8% doesn't understand it (remember: legalese) and 1% understands but doesn't care. I'm in the final 1% where I understand enough and I don't like predatory practices so I just don't accept the EULA and go spend my money somewhere else. Note that I consider normal for most players to not understand EULAs because they simply aren't lawyers, in fact most are underage children which these companies are taking advantage of. You're not going to see those terms in AutoCad or other production software because those are used by adults that can hire lawyers. Imagine you tell an arquitect that AutoDesk (the company that makes AutoCad) will have "royalty free perpetual worldwide right and license" to his/her building designs. Five minutes later AutoDesk is burning down at the hands of lawyers with torches. Children, on the other hand, don't understand what they're accepting, which is where "predatory practices" comes in. TBH I don't know how publishers can still get away with that. My guess is most parents also don't understand so they sit tight and get screwed instead of doing something to better protect the children against this kind of practice.

 

[mechtech]

There's no way I'm going to start paying €79.99 for games.

Sorry Doom The Dark Ages... see you on a future STEAM sale.

Think I paid about $80CAD for this when it came out.

Final Fantasy VI - Wikipedia

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But you did get a box a manual with artwork and a cartridge though.