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SimCity EULA to be Fixed

[Jan 23, 2013, 10:14 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

The SimCity Facebook Page has a follow up to the story we helped break on Sunday about worrisome language in the EULA for the upcoming SimCity reboot suggesting beta testers would lose access to all EA games for failing to report bugs in the beta (thanks Joe). Here's word:

Heads up, Mayors – it’s been brought to our attention that there’s been some confusion regarding the bug-reporting policy in the EA beta test agreement for SimCity.

Don’t worry – EA has never taken away access to a player’s games for failing to report a bug. In fact, we’re in the process of updating our agreement to make this point clear before the beta starts this Friday. If you have any more questions, read our FAQ: http://bit.ly/UCpuAA

Hope to see you in the beta Friday!

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Re: SimCity EULA to be Fixed

Jan 23, 2013, 13:44

jdreyer

@ Beamer

I agree with your general sentiment, that EA wasn't being evil. I'm sure it was just the case of them thinking, "If a bunch of people find and exploit and use it to give their city $100m that would really create a game imbalance. Lawyer, be sure to put some language in the EULA to prevent that." It's just that they were careless with the language and didn't think through the consequences of wording something so vaguely, especially in the context of a beta.

But given EA's history, it's hard to blame people for overreacting or seeing something nefarious behind it.




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Comment [quote="jdreyer"Jan 23, 2013, 13:44]@ Beamer I agree with your general sentiment, that EA wasn't being evil. I'm sure it was just the case of them thinking, "If a bunch of people find and exploit and use it to give their city $100m that would really create a game imbalance. Lawyer, be sure to put some language in the EULA to prevent that." It's just that they were careless with the language and didn't think through the consequences of wording something so vaguely, especially in the context of a beta. But given EA's history, it's hard to blame people for overreacting or seeing something nefarious behind it. [/quote]

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