Crysis 3 Crisis Averted

[Jan 30, 2013, 09:57 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

The Terms of Service for the new Crysis 3 open beta includes language about banning players for not reporting bugs, recalling the recently quelled controversy over the SimCity beta ToS threating a mab from all EA games for failure to report bugs. This new End-User License Agreement issue apparently has the same resolution as the previous one, as games.on.net notes a tweet explaining: "We did - it was baked into the Beta before we realized it had the 'Bug Ban' clause. We aren't enforcing that." They also link a follow-up tweet saying: "We'll be releasing a blog post about that soon, but for now rest assured we aren't banning players for finding bugs." So we now know why EULAs and ToSes are so lengthy: Even the people making the games can't be bothered to read the crap they let their lawyers stuff into them.

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Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted

Jan 30, 2013, 16:55

Beamer

Because you're saying "oh, don't worry, it's just lawyers being lawyers. They'd never do something like that," when in fact they HAVE already abused their bullshit ToS.

They were pretty upfront that they were going to abuse that, though. It wasn't something they snuck in, it was something they announced as intentional.
Then backed away from, went back to, backed away from, went back to, and makes you wonder if anyone at EA has a clue what anyone else over there is doing.

Plus, I'm saying don't freak out and not play a game. But I am saying give them hell for it and make a stink and make them change it.

EA tried to pretend it was a bug.

If I remember, they announced it as policy, then said it was a mistake, then did it, then said it was a bug and it wasn't policy any longer, then did it again... but they still announced it as policy first. It wasn't something sneaky - they told everyone they'd do it. It's what they did after that was sneaky.

I don't think I'm defending EA here. At all. I can't even name the last EA game I played. Looking at Wikipedia it was Crysis 1 and Bulletstorm - I played Mass Effect, Dragon's Age and Dead Space, but for 3 hours, 10 minutes, and 1 hour respectively. Definitely not a huge EA fan.




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	1.	Jan 30, 09:00	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	nin
	4.	Jan 30, 09:42	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Beamer
	6.	Jan 30, 09:53	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	InBlack
	7.	Jan 30, 10:11	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Beamer
	14.	Jan 30, 12:49	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	AngelicPenguin
	16.	Jan 30, 13:30	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	NKD
	9.	Jan 30, 10:17	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	RollinThundr
	10.	Jan 30, 10:45	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	InBlack
	12.	Jan 30, 11:12	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Verno
	2.	Jan 30, 09:17	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	LiTh
	3.	Jan 30, 09:42	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Kajetan
	5.	Jan 30, 09:46	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Beamer
	8.	Jan 30, 10:15	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Kajetan
	11.	Jan 30, 10:56	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Creston
	13.	Jan 30, 11:50	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	nin
	17.	Jan 30, 13:33	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Beamer
	19.	Jan 30, 13:35	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Beamer
	24.	Jan 30, 14:39	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Creston
	26.	Jan 30, 14:54	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Beamer
	29.	Jan 30, 14:59	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Creston
>>	42.	Jan 30, 16:55	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Beamer
	43.	Jan 30, 17:33	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Creston
	44.	Jan 30, 18:05	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Beamer
	45.	Jan 30, 18:48	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Prez
	25.	Jan 30, 14:49	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	jdreyer
	31.	Jan 30, 15:01	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Creston
	32.	Jan 30, 15:02	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Flatline
	33.	Jan 30, 15:03	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Verno
	49.	Jan 31, 05:56	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Bopper
	15.	Jan 30, 13:27	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Tumbler
	18.	Jan 30, 13:33	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Verno
	20.	Jan 30, 13:36	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Beamer
	21.	Jan 30, 13:57	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Spektr
	22.	Jan 30, 14:11	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Beamer
	23.	Jan 30, 14:32	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	RollinThundr
	27.	Jan 30, 14:56	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Verno
	28.	Jan 30, 14:58	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	RollinThundr
	30.	Jan 30, 15:01	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Verno
	35.	Jan 30, 15:18	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	RollinThundr
	36.	Jan 30, 15:23	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Verno
	37.	Jan 30, 15:31	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	RollinThundr
	38.	Jan 30, 15:41	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Verno
	39.	Jan 30, 15:48	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	RollinThundr
	40.	Jan 30, 15:57	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Verno
	34.	Jan 30, 15:14	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	DangerDog
	41.	Jan 30, 16:52	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Beelzebud
	46.	Jan 30, 21:08	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Krizzen
	47.	Jan 30, 22:54	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Beamer
	48.	Jan 31, 02:34	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	eRe4s3r
	50.	Jan 31, 07:16	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Redmask
	51.	Jan 31, 07:33	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	InBlack
	52.	Jan 31, 09:25	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	eRe4s3r
	53.	Jan 31, 09:52	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Verno
	54.	Jan 31, 11:18	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	eRe4s3r
	55.	Jan 31, 11:29	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Creston
	56.	Jan 31, 11:44	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	eRe4s3r
	57.	Jan 31, 12:58	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Creston
	58.	Jan 31, 13:39	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	Verno
	59.	Feb 1, 02:03	Re: Crysis 3 Crisis Averted	eRe4s3r