Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.

• emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What point are you trying to make? You say you’re “all for calling this kind of fuckery out” but then you’re criticizing people for calling it out? And who cares what other EULAs might say? The point is that the license agreement for this game and others owned by this company didn’t say this shit before, and now they do. The company is actively making their user agreement more hostile to the users which is what people are pissed about.

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  • Lemjukes@lemm.ee ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That it takes more critical thinking to accomplish the organized action needed for real change than leaving a bunch of negative reviews.

    I never once said ‘other company’s do it so just deal with it.’ Fuckawhataboutism. I said “if you think this is new, you haven’t been paying attention.” What I shouldn’t have left unsaid was ‘the review is a nice start and show of intention. but we need a lot more dedicated, well organized action, to actually accomplish a change.’

    But people read into things what they want to hear.

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• Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I see this kind of comment before and I will never understand it - “other companies do it so just bend over and let us do it to you too!”

  People say this all the time about Denuvo too: “Other games already have Denuvo, why are you crying about it here when you’re playing other games?”

  And see, that’s the problem - we aren’t playing those other Denuvo games. And same thing applies here, guess what, a lot of us aren’t buying games from gross companies like EA with these shit terms. So when a company we are doing business with suddenly changes their terms to be shit, that’s a valid complaint. Some of us have already been boycotting bad business practices in the industry, so the idea of company changing terms towards the boycott after we’ve already invested in the game feels like a betrayal because it is.

  So maybe stop focusing on what you assume the rest of audience is doing and instead go back to focusing on what the people at the goddamn podium are trying to pull?

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  • Lemjukes@lemm.ee ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why does everyone insist on adding the ‘so just bend over and take’ part whenever someone points out another source of wrongdoing? Like what do yall always take it to mean that the speaker is implying a whataboutism argument? And not maybe as ‘oh shit this has been going on longer than just this maybe we should learn about that too and we might figure out why it hasn’t been stopped yet.’

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    • Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If “everyone” keeps reading a sentiment you did not intend out of your message, perhaps it is time to consider that you are doing a poor job of communicating your point.

      Or you’re being disingenuous and just don’t like being calling on your hissy fit.

      I dunno, take your pick.

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      • Lemjukes@lemm.ee ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It’s the first one, I’m terrible at effectively communicating nuanced points.

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• MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Let’s ride the wave. Turn this into a huge controversy known industry-wide. Then, next game that comes out with EULA like this, we say “THIS GAME HAS A BORDERLANDS-STYLE EULA”. Pretend it’s new to exploit the shock value and get the gamers riled up. Then, the industry gets better.

  Tell the frog that the pot wasn’t always this hot.

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  • Lemjukes@lemm.ee ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thank you for an actually constructive response. You’ve honestly brought me around a bit with this.

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• Don_alForno@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Some people will always find an excuse to change nothing.

  It doesn’t matter how many similar EULA’s people have already accepted. The best moment to not eat it anymore would have been the first time it happened, the second best time is right now.

  Also, retroactively amending an EULA is a different quality, since people have already paid for the game and would be looked out after the fact if they didn’t accept.

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  • Lemjukes@lemm.ee ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m sad you read this as an admission of defeat and an attempt to deter others from fighting. Was hoping for more of a ‘you’re late, you have a bunch of homework to catch up on’ vibe but I’m not great at communicating all the time.

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    • Cataphract@lemmy.ml ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It seems like you’re giving of a “victim” vibe with this by stating you wished for only a particular type of “positive response” when you’ve posted a misleading comment and doubled-down with “EULAs half the people in this thread have already clicked thru” which you have no way of knowing.

      Were all Take Two games automatically updated in secret and now hijack your machine with root access to spy on everything you do? ❌

      10.2. Updates, Modifications, and Sunset. We may provide patches, updates, or upgrades to the Services, Virtual Items, Content, or your Account that may be required for you to continue using the Services, including automatic or “in the background” updates without notice to you.

      “Was hoping for more of a ‘you’re late, you have a bunch of homework to catch up on’” You’re expecting others to hold your hand and inform you of every event or action taken by every company. I guess I’ll do my part since I have been trying to let other people know for a while now,

      StormGate - Privacy Policy and End User Agreement. Is this just the new industry standard to avoid? (post made by me 10 months ago)

      Why don’t you see it more?

      Steam Discussion deleted after questioning the “EULA” of Stormgate, another post by me after I tried to inform others and was suppressed, meaning the reviews is the only course of action that most have at their disposal. Even posting on their official subreddit did no good with the exact same type of response you’ve presented here,

      Why am I consenting to have my “Medical Information”, “Browser/Search History”, “Social Security/Drivers License number”, “Geolocation and movements”, and more collected to play Stormgate? (22k members, only 122 upvotes)

      (the responses)

      • They didn’t collect such information (they technically couldn’t), they are giving examples of such types of personally identifiable information.
      • Yeah, it’s excessive, they don’t need half of this. However, writing it this way makes it near impossible for them to screw up by accident. If you play games, you probably agreed to a handful of ELUA’s like that by now.
      • This keeps getting brought up in every controversial game these days and the answer is always the same: They aren’t.
      • Most of this is not out of the ordinary.
      • Imagine thinking all of this information about you isn’t already owned by several corporations lol.
      • Some of these stuffs are required in X countries not yours, stop thinking the entire world is all about you buddy.

      You’ve officially become part of the problem and an ally to the very same reason why we can’t “accomplish the organized action needed for real change (than leaving a bunch of negative reviews.)”

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      • Lemjukes@lemm.ee ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Man I’m tired.

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• Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If more folks are waking up and shaking a stick at it or doing something but blindly click through (thus legally unenforceable) EULAs I’m all for it.

  Better late than never.

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  • Lemjukes@lemm.ee ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I get that and agree, this is just a crappy and kinda dumb stick to be wasting the energy on because it makes the side opposing the injustice look like petulant children instead of enabling effective action.

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• LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I don’t click thru any EULAs. I see bad EULA - I pirate. Then if it makes any network traffic i just block that shit.

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  • Lemjukes@lemm.ee ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    yo ho

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