Beamer wrote on Jan 30, 2013, 10:11:

Read my next post - these things aren't an accident and no one deserves "blame." And it isn't the job of the game designer to read the EULA. It would be nice if he did, but he has an entire legal team, who has an entire outside counsel team, dedicated to making these decisions. Even if he knows about these things he often can't fight them because:
a) it isn't his job to
b) it isn't his ass on the line if they get sued

The EULA has one purpose: to prevent the company from being sued. The counsel mostly has the same purpose. So EULAs are created by counsel to cover as much ass as possible. They overreach. They always overreach.

But the guy who is actually enforcing the EULA has no clue that it overreaches. He runs things the way he feels they should be run. He's not a jackass, and he'd never ban someone for not reporting a bug. Most people don't report bugs, and fuck, most people only find incredibly obvious bugs and you don't want them reporting it because 500 people already have.

Again, this does not mean people shouldn't complain and fight it, but just know it will always happen. The lawyers are paid exclusively to prevent the company from liability. The only way to do that is to overreach, because it becomes a cat-and-mouse game and some jackass will always find some jackass reason to sue, ruining it for everyone.