If the agreement to play a game needs a whole website, then I say the problem is 100% on the game developer.
Comment on The HELLDIVERS™^©®^³ 2 EULA is a URL
Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours agoYou can not, in fact, copy that link - I had to type it manually. It’s relatively short and human-readable, but still…
Devil’s advocate: I wouldn’t accuse Sony (or friends) of intentionally making the text unselectable, that’s on the Steam client.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
I’d say it’s 95% on the publisher, with a large error margin on how shady the intentions of the actual developers are - HD2 is unlikely to be one of those cases.
unrelatedkeg@lemmy.sdf.org 18 hours ago
Still, Steam probably has some clause in their developer agreement where they say that’s not on them.
Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
Yeah, I don’t blame Steam, I don’t expect them to foresee publishers specifying EULAs as “idk google it m8”.
… actually, no, I do blame Steam, what reason is there to prevent copying EULAs? Are they protected by copyright too now?
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
More just indicative of the hostile posture of corporations
DScratch@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
“Hostile posture”
I really like that phrase.
IceFoxX@lemm.ee 9 hours ago
However, the companies quite legitimately use the legal means available to them and what is possible is also done. From this point of view, the blame should rather be placed on the legal situation and politics, as these are what make this legally possible in the first place.