After Valve’s recent change of their EULA in August, one that made class action lawsuits against them breaking your user agreement with them and thus forfeiture of your account, the gaming community was upset but really only for a weekend. When a similar thing happened with Blizzard over their Diablo III “always on” fiasco, people were up in arms and protested the MMO giant, but why not Valve? We’ll get back to that later.
The German advocacy group VZBZ, the same one who brought Blizzard into European Union supreme court, is now on Valves case. Back in July they passed legislation that all software should be allowed to be resold by their owners. This includes digital sales (To read that ruling check it out HERE).
VZBZ have just announced they are giving Valve and Steam until September 26 to remove rescind their current EULA agreement with users or face the consequences, and litigation. We will see as that is only a few days away, I will keep you up to date as info is released.
Now back to the first part, why wasn’t Valve protested? My personal feelings are that the armchair protesters, the mountain dew activists that flipped out over Blizzard doing this, EA. The same people who blacked out their sites over SOPA and PIPA, are in too much love with Valve and Gabe Newell that they let this slide. This was the prime example of hypocrisy in our community. Valve has been a good guy Greg to every customer, doing refunds, exchanges etc. etc. Lets hope they do the right thing again, without the law interfering, and they will do the same over here.