| Damnyouall said: By the way, it's even worse than expected. I just saw this elsewhere: "http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Valves-Steam-Latest-to-Erode-Your-Legal-Rights-With-Fine-Print-120625 Points of interest: 1. If Steam decides to ban you from the service, they get to keep all of the money in your wallet (up to $2,000) 2. If you lose, get banned, or in any other way get denied access from one game you purchased in a bundle, they will take away ALL the games in the bundle from you. 3. You agree to ignore your own local laws (in terms of your interaction with Steam), and instead follow US law if you're not located in Europe. If you're in Europe, you still must ignore your own local law and abide by Luxenberg law. 4. You agree to never sue them (class action or individually), instead you agree to ONLY ever us arbitration. 5. You are only renting access to the games. You don't own them in any way, shape or form. If Steam goes under, you will never get access to the games you purchased. 6. If Steam decides to remove a game from it's library that you purchased, too bad. They don't owe you the game, you just lose all access to it. 7. Steam can ban you from the service for any reason they want. Why is this bad? Glad you asked! Let's say you decide to write up a critical blog post about Valve or Steam, and they read it and dislike it." |
bolded of number three is false?
"For EU Subscribers:
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However, where the laws of Luxembourg provide a lower degree of consumer protection than the laws of your country of residence, the consumer protection laws of your country shall prevail."
and about point number 4, doesn't that say you can still do more than just use arbitration?
"This Section does not prevent you from bringing your dispute to the attention of any federal, state, or local government agencies that can, if the law allows, seek relief from us for you.
and one more
"This Section 12 shall apply to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law. If the laws of your jurisdiction prohibit the application of some or all of the provisions of this Section notwithstanding Section 11 (Applicable Law/Jurisdiction), such provisions will not apply to you."
so, all they said in their agreement isn't effective if it is against your countries law and at least some of the stuff they say won't be effective at least here in germany
ea had some shit with battlefield and it was against german law. they changed it then after some weeks/months.
