Submitted 2 days ago by Lojcs@piefed.social to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Utterly ridiculous for a singleplayer game. These aren’t even listed on the Steam store page. For some reason I thought id was better than this.
It’s blocked from firewall so I don’t think it’ll successfully call back home (unless they did some Steam networking trickery I guess). I just hate this bs on principle.
ID Software died long ago. It was sold to Zenimax 20 years ago.
Microsoft owns it now.
*Microslop
They still making one of the most exceptional games at the market. Not independent - yes. But if it’s the price to actually deliver games this quality sign me up.
So… Agree the agreement and just play. It didn’t make the game worse.
It’s not exclusively single player, however I’m not sure if anything would prevent them from only making you accept these agreements when you select multiplayer in the menu.
Nothing would prevent them from making you accept this bs after you clicked the multiplayer button, i think some other games do that too
While the multi-player is now dead it wasn’t in 2016.
I see no issue with making the player agree to any of those.
I was today years old when I learned Doom has a multiplayer.. And I doubt many people buy this for its multiplayer. They could selectively ask those who click on the multiplayer if that was their concern.
Looking at achievement stats, 32% of people finished the campaign while 12% of people won a multiplayer match. So I’m not alone in thinking of Doom as a single player game
it doesn’t matter what you think. It had a multplayer because gamers were screaming for a Multiplayer doom.
Why would you need a code of conduct on a game about murdering demons in the most graphically brutal ways anyways? Something like “by accepting these rules, you agree to be friendly to demons, pet them in the back and have a picnic together.”?
Have you seen how people behave in multiplayer games?
Having a code of conduct and making the player agree to it is so neccesary.
OP says it’s a single-player game, but it looks like that’s not the case. If it is multiplayer, a code of conduct is 100% necessary. The rest seems pretty standard for something online: privacy policy, EULA and TOS.
I wish EULAs would go away, or at least be heavily restricted in what they can force you to agree with, but they’re standard.
TOS is useful to define what you can expect out of their online service.
I also wish there were privacy laws, so the Privacy Policy didn’t force you to agree to absurd terms, but here we are.
It has/had a multiplayer mode. It’s presumably for that.
Putting the “mildly” back in mildly infuriating.
I don’t read them and just click accept.
They’re not enforceable, binding laws anyway. It’s a bunch of corporate CYA. They want to be able to tell a judge someday that they did everything they could to inform you of their business practices and get you to agree to use their product responsibly. The company’s chance of facing a court action is much higher than a user’s chance of being held to whatever they agreed by checking a box.
Exactly that’s why I just ignore them. I’m playing a video game not buying a house.
I tried reading them and it didn’t even scroll to show the rest.
Honestly? If you can, refund it and tell them why.
Probably bought this as part of a bundle a long time ago. And I don’t feel like spending time pirating it while it’s already installed
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
id is owned by Bethesda, who published Doom 2016.