Valve Slammed By Consumer Protection, Issued Cease And Desist On Anti-Consumerist EULA

Sleepery said:
Wow, that happened quicker than I expected. Be interesting to see how it pans out. Probably with Steam being unavailable in Germany :p
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Germany has taken the lead but as it's European legislation it would also affect us but I doubt it would come to that anyway.

I love steam it is a great way to buy & manage games though I really don't agree with the way they handled the EULA, I'm torn between a great company that provides a very good service & my rights as a consumer being eroded.
 
Gimpymoo said:
The book trade has noting to do with second hand games, you cannot compare two different industries and then say "Well, what about this".

If every second hand book on the market was in "MINT" shrink wrapped condition however....?
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Perhaps if a digital copy did not lose value but it does, old games get reduced in price digital copy or not.
 
I don't see how the second hand market damages the industry for two main reasons
A) for a game to appear on the secondhand market it has to have already been bought so one cannot do well on the second hand market without having done well at retail.
B) A second hand sale does not equate to a sale lost because a lot of people would not have bought it at the asking price.
It's like the steam sales I buy games in that I never would any other time.
 
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barmyllama said:
Like I said, a EULA has yet to get in the way of my gaming.
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I think it's the unusually heavy handed approach Valve has taken in forcing customers hand by basically saying sign this or lose access to games you already have linked to you're account, games I add that everyone had already signed a EULA for previously why not just change the EULA for anything purchased after the change.
Please Valve don't compromise you're good name by resorting to bullying you're customers it's so EA.
 
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