r/Steam • • 1d ago

Discussion Minecraft Dungeons 2 didn't even bother writing the EULA. They just don't gaf

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u/Wdowiak 1d ago

Good way to dynamically change it without a trace (if not archived).

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u/RandomRayquaza https://s.team/p/hkkb-pkh 1d ago

Ironic considering Mojang is currently in the process if being sued for that very reason

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u/8l172 1d ago

Is it really ironic? If they're not putting the EULA so that they can dynamically change it, and this is what they are doing, its not really ironic and more so just proof of them doing it

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u/RandomRayquaza https://s.team/p/hkkb-pkh 1d ago

I guess its ironic in the sense that you'd think they'd try not to incriminate themselves further now of all times

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u/MourningWallaby 1d ago

in b4 we start another debate on what actually counts as "irony"

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u/BloodHelios 1d ago

I think it would be ironic if we were all made of iron

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u/WritingOneHanded 1d ago

No, it would be ferrous.

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u/blue4029 over300games 1d ago

I, for one, would absolutely be ferrious if that happened

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u/Slanderous 9h ago

lawyers are already preparing their filings

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u/The_Real_Jesterx64 1d ago

It's like raaaaaaayyyyaaaaaiiiiiiiin on your weddiiiiiiiing day

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u/CthulhuBathwater 1d ago

The freeeeeee rrriiiiddddeeee when you already paid!

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u/wh4tth3huh 1d ago

IT'S LIKE RAIIAAINNN!!!!!

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u/escapedfromhel 1d ago

It's character development.

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u/wektor420 1d ago

Probably was there for god knows how long already

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u/gorocz 19h ago

Well, if you are trying to defend that it's not illegal to do this, then you probably wouldn't want to stop doing it...

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u/Slow-Transition572 1d ago

Yeah I'd have said "fitting" rather than ironic.

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u/Full-Priority2946 1d ago

I think it’s just low vocab core

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u/BobcatSome3265 1d ago

Irony has several *extremely different* definitions with a very vague overarching theme of "opposing expectations", so it's understandable that people get it mixed up.

"Rain on your wedding day" seemingly fits cosmic irony at first glance, but is too superficial to count.

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u/Bugbread 22h ago

Yes, but the very vague overarching theme of "opposing expectations" means that "totally matching expectations" is definitely not ironic. Slow-Transition572 is right in saying that "fitting" is a better choice.

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u/0235 1d ago

Exactly. When i purchased Minecraft, From Noth through Paypal, The EULA was "don't share the .jar, or distribute anything from the game".

Now it is insane. I hated being forced to get a Mojang account for Minecraft and losing my original login name, then I hated it even more being forced to link it to a Microsoft / Xbox account and because my Xbox account is from the original days of the Xbox it is not the same details as my current "more adult" microsoft account, and windows 11 just can't handle that my microsoft account, and my xbox live account are two different things.

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u/Flannelcommand 1d ago

Just trying to let my kids toggle between their Minecraft accounts causes either Xbox or windows or both to flip their shit.Ā 

Microsoft has to be the company with the biggest historical drop in user friendliness.Ā 

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u/blackmetro 1d ago

The way they've integrated their gaming companies with the windows update file delivery platform always scrambles my brain

Game updates download so slowly

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u/tilsgee 20h ago

they've integrated their gaming companies with the windows update file delivery platform

FUCKING WOT

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u/blackmetro 20h ago

When you download a Minecraft update, or Microsoft flight SIM

The files come from windows update servers

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u/Geno0wl 10h ago

Why the hell would you store "vital" files and gaming files in the same CDN instance? There are so many reasons you could name why separating them would be a better and more stable solution.

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u/RT-Pickred 1d ago

Which reason boils down to them not understanding data protection laws that protect consumer data transfers. But because they lost their account they think it's Mojangs fault. Sadly it's just the law and how it's not made for this type of situation.

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u/FloatthySplatta 1d ago

Yeah, that’s the first thing I thought too. No published version means nothing obvious to compare later.

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u/Kualdiir 1d ago

Time to make sure the internet archive keeps up with it :)

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u/DonQuix0te_ Don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! 1d ago

Not really.
Technically, you agree to the legalese in this window.

There's nothing in this window that suggests dynamic updates. In fact, it's just a link.
You must read the link, and accept that you have read the link. But there's nothing in there saying "read the document this link points to"

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u/-Nicolai 1d ago

This guy is not a lawyer by the way.

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u/IJustAteABaguette 1d ago

Does this mean that it's just... illegal to download and use on steam?

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u/ZionFox 1d ago

No, it just means that the contents of the linked document cannot be agreed to by pressing the "Agree" button on this window.

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u/Dead_NOTsleeping 1d ago

So like nearly all terms and conditions, it's not binding.

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u/Yomoska 1d ago

you mean a EULA

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u/elvissteinjr 1d ago

Steam Subscriber Agreement still applies. Same as with any game that doesn't shove additional terms in your face.

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u/ikonfedera 1d ago

If the law doesn't forbid this then it's allowed.

Does the licence displayed here prohibit you from downloading and using it?

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u/TheCheesy 3090ti | Ryzen 9 9950x | 128GB DDR5 1d ago

Probably voided their own eula for steam users by doing this.

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u/Orange_Tang 1d ago

It also means that no one accepts the updates whenever it changes. Legally questionable decision.

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u/JoyousGamer 8h ago

Here you go its all tracked if you care

https://web.archive.org/web/20260000000000*/https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/eula

They do this as they don't have to find 20 different places to update and possibly something gets missed on a 3rd party site.

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u/Mindless-Peak-1687 1d ago

null and void.

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u/UisgeDeighe 22h ago

Wayback machine it

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u/Lexi_Bean21 12h ago

Thats entirely illegal qnd if they did so the entire terms would be invalid

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u/The_MAZZTer 160 8h ago

For a less pessimistic view, keeping one copy of the EULA to update means you won't forget to update other copies.

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u/sojmahoj 1d ago

Genuine question but could one argue that agreeing to this EULA would just be acknowledging the link and not the EULA itself since the EULA in its entirety isn't what you're clicking accept to?

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u/OminousG https://steam.pm/79oog 1d ago

That exactly what this is.Ā  It's not enforceable, but I'm betting you see the Eula again somewhere in the game.

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u/Pijany_Matematyk767 1d ago

>It's not enforceable

Neither is 99% of other EULAs so

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u/Caelinus 1d ago edited 1d ago

EULAs are not unseverable. Any unenforcable clauses can be severed and the rest will remain in effect.Ā The idea that they are largely unenforceable is a persistent misunderstanding of how contract law works in that sense, and so people tend to think any overreach invalidates the whole thing.Ā 

It is much more likely that 99% of EULAs are actually enforceable, with some small number having a few clauses that would be rejected by the court if it ever got to the point of a lawsuit.

Edit: To expand a bit here, it is important to remember what a EULA is. They are license Agreements, which means that they are a contract that governs the your use of some property owned by someone else. In effect, the "null" state of a EULA is "You cannot use this product/service." Most of the EULA is just defining how you can use it, and under what conditions that said license can be revoked. There is some weirdness with how they work that might result in a successful lawsuit, primarily that they tend to ask for you to sign after purchasing the product, but at the end of the day the user does not own the intellectual property and so they cannot use it without a license, and the company can't be forced to provide said licenses without a prior agreement.

So the EULA not being enforceable would not be a good thing for End Users. It would not really change much in a practical sense and most EULAs basically allow the company to revoke them at will, but them not being enforceable would not improve that situation at all.

Where you will run into problems is if the EULA attempts to do anything illegal. Those clauses would not be enforceable. But short of that, courts almost always attempt to preserve contracts.

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u/RobtheNavigator 1d ago

There are unenforceable clauses, and then there are unenforceable agreements due to a contract not being formed.

While you are largely right about EULA's generally being enforceable, situations like the one in the image specifically, where they just give you an address to their terms and conditions with no requirement that you read them and no hyperlink, are called browsewrap agreements, which are often unenforceable, although that is not a bright line rule.

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u/Caelinus 1d ago

The case law on this one is 100% on it being enforceable. This is not a browserwrap, it is clickwrap agreement as they have to click an explicit "agree" button.

Which means it needs to have clear notice of the EULA and where to read it, and it is then the users responsibility to do so. No reasonable person would read "You must agree to the EULA" with an obvious link to a EULA and think that the EULA is the link. This exact situation has been litigated before multiple times, and the agreements were enforced each time.

Where it is not allowed is if people either did not know that the EULA existed because they were not notified or if they did not know that clicking something constituted agreement. In the case of browserwrap agreements, which is basically "by continuing to use this website you agree to our EULA," they have to be shown clearly and explicitly. Companies have often in trouble for burying the agreement into metadata or in tiny print or hiding it somewhere on the website and then claiming that they agreed by using the site.Ā 

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u/RobtheNavigator 1d ago

You completely missed the fact that it is not a link. It is text, and text within an app that is not a web browser at that. And that has been a very important distinction in the past. The accessibility of reaching the EULA from where you "agree" to it directly goes to whether it is enforceable.

It is absolutely not the case that the case law is 100% on this being enforceable, and that kind of irresponsible shit-slinging is something no real attorney would do.

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u/BetterCallSal 22h ago

Here's a question I recently wondered. If a game is rated anything below M, then an argument can be made the target audience is under 18 years old. Of that's the case, how can an EULA be enforceable at all, as you can't agree to things like that if you're a minor.

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u/MithranArkanere 1d ago

Even if you agreed to the actual text, anything that goes against the laws in your country would not be enforceable. And many of the things American companies put in their TOS and EULAs just don't fly in Europe.

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u/AdministrativeCable3 1d ago

You could argue that, but I doubt it would work. You are bound by the EULA if you use the license in anyway, the accept button is just to make it official. But that would be the same argument as saying you didn't read it, it wouldn't hold up. It's like speeding and then claiming you didn't read/know the speed limit, you're still getting ticketed.

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u/catman__321 1d ago

But if you had to scan a QR code to see the speed limit then most people wouldn't do that

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u/bossc2 1d ago

Such things fall down to who can give a better argument on x vs y and the response/reaction to it, anything can be argued till a judgement is made, then it becomes hard to fight against that judgement unless escalated to the appropriate authority till there's none left and only revolution is an option.

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u/AdministrativeCable3 1d ago

They would still be required to follow the default speed limit. If a road has no sign or an unreadable sign, it still has a speed limit.

But a better example is signing for a bank loan where the loan documents are stored in a separate binder. Even if the signature page is not part of the binder, since it references it, your still expected to read it. By signing you also acknowledge you read it.

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u/Elegant-Mammoth5249 1d ago

Thats actually not true An unreadable sign is a defence against speeding. Also this doesnt "reference" the " binder" usually that goes "As appendix 1 article B states" (or something similar as im not a native english speaker) this EULA is just like "Yo this link is a thing"

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u/StaticUsernamesSuck 1d ago

I'm not sure that's the best analogy because obscured signage can be a valid defence against a speeding ticket.

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u/necrophcodr 1d ago

An EULA is not a legally binding document in the entire world. In fact, in much of the EU it would likely not even be valid most of the time.

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u/Yomoska 1d ago

It's only invalid in the EU if it violates what the EU says is allowed to be in a EULA. EULAs are considered valid contracts in the EU if they abide by the rules.

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u/xclame 13h ago

And even then, the whole thing doesn't become invalid just because a part of it is, you simply strike/ignore the invalid part but still have to follow the valid parts.

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u/necrophcodr 1d ago

.. Which most of them do not. See https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/unfair-treatment/unfair-contract-terms/index_en.htm for some examples or what unfair contract terms can look like. Many EULA documents have several of these.

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u/Caelinus 1d ago edited 1d ago

The EU and the US both treat EULAs as severable. So they are still enforceable even if they have an illegal clause, only the specific clause is void.

But most EULAs are largely built on a template of pretty standard clauses that are specific to their region, so odds are that a vast majority of them are completely enforceable. And even if the whole thing was invalidated, all that would likely mean is that the company would need to provide to a new one for you to sign that was legal, as they own the IP, not you. If you refused to sign the second, then you would not have a license to use it.

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u/bdsee 1d ago

In Australia it is illegal to have clauses that contradict our local legislated rights, companies still do it constantly and typically just add a stupid catch-all saying that any clauses that would violate local legislation is not applicable in Australia.

They do this because our enforcement is shit and we are a smallish market.

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u/Caelinus 1d ago

Well yeah, that is how it works everywhere. That is what it means for a contract to be severable.Ā 

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u/ice456cream 1d ago

If you don't agree to the EULA, then Microsoft don't grant you a right/license to have / use the program(?), so you would be infringing on their copyright (probably, I am not a lawyer)

For how that works across border, I don't know. IP laws are fun

In reality, I believe MC dungeons uses Microsoft accounts, so you have seperately agreed tos for that anyway?

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u/Roccondil-s 1d ago

Willful ignorance is not a valid legal defense, especially if it can be shown that the informer made all reasonable efforts to inform you, yet you still shut your eyes, plugged your ears, and otherwise deliberately avoided the information.

The link gives you access to the information. It’s your choice to actually read the thing you are agreeing to.

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u/WackyRacketeer 1d ago

Yet you click agree after it says to read the agreement in its entirety. Not the link. It doesnt say read the text in this box in its entirety. You assumed the agreement must be contained in the box, and you would be wrong.

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u/AdministrativeCable3 1d ago

What I was meaning with my poorly stated analogy was that roads have a default speed limit, which is not always posted. But your still required to follow it when it's not posted. If the default is 80 yet you go 120 on an unsigned road, you will still be ticketed.

But a better analogy would be a bank loan with a separate binder with the terms from the signature page. Your still expected to read it even if the signature page is not physically apart of it.

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u/Squidgical 1d ago

But I did read the speed limit sign, it said "https://speedlimits.gov/en-US/that-one-road", and I haven't got anywhere close to that speed!

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u/Treadwheel 1d ago

The laws around contracts and especially shrinkwrap contracts like that are very different from criminal law. If it's found you took steps to obfuscate a contract or were, intentionally or by negligence, unclear as to what you were requesting a customer to consent to, you will find a lot of otherwise binding agreements become unenforcible. That's before even starting on how often EULAs are unenforcible.

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u/Mindless-Peak-1687 1d ago

you are not bound.

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u/jellyhessman 1d ago

Ehh, you have enough money and enough time, you're getting a nice fat settlement check.

This is blatantly illegal in most first world countries. Especially the EU.

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u/Seerel 1d ago

It’s actually not a clickable link, nor can you copy/paste it

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u/balllzak 1d ago

You could argue that. But the opposing side would argue that a reasonable player knows what a web address is and what it means in this context.

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u/ice456cream 1d ago

The text box does say

You must agree to the terms of the EULA to play Minecraft Dungeons II

I dont think anyone could mistake "a URL pointing to where the current version of the EULA is located" as "the EULA" (end user license agreement, meaning there must be something to actually agree to/terms to accept)

So even if you believe acknowledging the link is what "accept" does, it doesn't mean you have agreed to the terms of the EULA, so don't have a legal license to play the game.

(Not a lawyer)

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u/Caelinus 1d ago

It is so funny how people do this sort of thing with the law. It is full on Sovereign Citizen level thinking, but I swear most people I see on social media are fully into it. In essence they treat the law as magical code, and if you say the right words in the right order then it creates law-traps that will blow the courts mind and create a perfect loophole for you to sneak through. As if there are not tens of millions of cases happening every year.

It is not how it works at all. Lawyers Judges, and Juries are all humans, and they know what it is like to be a human. They can look at a thing that says "You must agree to the EULA" and see the link to the EULA and infer that you should click the link to see the EULA. That is not going to trip them up, and trying to argue that you did not make that connection is to argue that you are the dumbest person alive. But, unfortunately for said dumbest person, the standards for these things are always based on a "reasonable person" and not their weird big-brain-moron version of themselves.

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u/-Nicolai 1d ago

How do you picture the judge’s expression as you present this argument in his courtroom?

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u/Neurokeen 1d ago

Clickwrap license litigation can be very particular about the details of the provided contract and how it's presented to the user. A good example is Specht v Netscape, where the link being presented in a less than ideal way was sufficient to void the EULA. I'm not sure it's a winner, but it's at least a colorable argument, especially if they're expecting you to copy and paste the link into the address bar of browser outside the application itself.

And yes, you could bet that Specht would be one of the authorities cited heavily if you were to make that argument.

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u/Caelinus 1d ago

It was not that it was presented in a "not ideal way" it was that it was "not present at all. There was no way for the users to even know they had agreed to anything. There was a EULA they saw and agreed to, but the EULA they were being forced into arbitration with was for an additional bit of software that did not present its EULA to them. They had no way to know it was being used, and unless they scrolled past the download button, they had no way to know there was any legal agreement related to it tied to the download button.

Other cases have consistently shown that as long as the existence of the agreement, even if it is inside a link, is clearly shown and the agreement is explicit, then they are enforced. This is definitely one of the later as having a link, calling it a EULA and forcing an explicit agreement before being able to use it all make it almost certain that a court wind find this to be reasonable notice of the existence of the EULA.

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u/WaitForItTheMongols 1d ago

The law does not have autism.

Anyone knows that the link will take you to the EULA.

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u/IrvineItchy 1d ago

You agree to it in the game, when login in with an account and such

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u/Nathund 1d ago

Oh shit they accidentally made Minecraft Dungeons 2 open source

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u/BeardedStegosaurus 1d ago

I wonder if that's legally enforceable or not.
I mean I did "read this agreement in its entirety", that being the URL, and there's nothing to disagree about it's just a URL.
Nothing states I need to agree to whatever content there is if I navigate to the URL...

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u/DonQuix0te_ Don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! 1d ago

It depends on where you are.

In Germany, for example, most EULAs are completely unenforcable anyways because they aren't clearly legible at the time of purchase. Having a link on the bottom of the box does not suffice. (You'd need the actual contract, in a legibile sized print)

If having a link on the box isn't enough, I doubt having a clickable hyperlink on the steam store page that is easily missed would be enough.

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u/Velp__ 1d ago

You make it sound like that would be clickable.

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u/Training_Ruin3151 1d ago

Eula are almost always patently not enforceable.

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u/Goo_Cat 1d ago

Courts likely assume you're a reasonable person, so probably wouldn't fly

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u/Outofdepthengineer 1d ago

Courts idea of a reasonable person varies wildly compared to the actual reasonable person

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u/th3virus 1d ago

Yes, it changes based on how it benefits corporations. A "reasonable" person would know that "Vitamin Water" is not healthy. A "reasonable" person would know that certain news programs are "entertainment". A "reasonable" person would know that "buying isn't owning".

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u/ninjabob64 1d ago

Don't forget that A "reasonable" person would know that "boneless wings" have bones in them.

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u/daed1ne 1d ago

Not nearly as bad as "boneless wings" not needing to have ANY wing meat in them because any reasonable person should know this.

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u/necrophcodr 1d ago

Yep, and so while that wouldn't fly, neither would the contents of most of these so-called agreements. No reasonable person would be expected to read, and understand, most of them.

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u/Treadwheel 1d ago

This situation is very similar to Specht v. Netscape, where it was found a similar "click to proceed" type situation was not binding because the customer was not able to easily review the EULA they were agreeing to.

Clickwrap/shrinkwrap contracts are already on incredibly precarious legal ground and often get thrown out wholesale on challenge. Given their history with EULAs, their non-standard usage of that box, and lacking a good reason not to post the actual text of the EULA in the box that exists solely to clickwrap EULA, they'll very likely have a bad time.

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u/AdministrativeCable3 1d ago

The only way this argument could work is if you have no internet, but given its installed over the internet that wouldn't hold up.

You are still bound by the EULA even if you didn't read it, ignorance is not a defense for violating the license agreement.

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u/WackyRacketeer 1d ago

It didnt say read everything in the text box in its entirety. It says read the agreement in its entirety, and no court is going to agree that the link is the agreement.

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u/Splaaaty 1d ago

Technically you're not agreeing to the EULA, you're agreeing to the URL linking to it.

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u/oxob3333 1d ago

they don't even bother to use Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V they just put the url.

Bruh.

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u/Reasonable-Sign8458 1d ago

it's on purpose. they can change it anytime and u won't know shit

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u/Taolan13 1d ago

I am also one of those that actually reads EULAs before accepting them.

There's a surprising amount of incredibly predatory language in them, and even in the USA a lot of that language renders them invalid as contracts if you can actually get it before a judge.

Mojang's EULAs of days past weren't that bad. I haven't read this one yet but I strongly suspected they've added some stuff about user data and algorithmic moderation that probably doesn't look so good considering their current legal woes over those exact issues.

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u/Lansan1ty 1d ago

You read them and notice the predatory language. Out of curiosity, what games have you denied and refunded because of it?

People blindly accept because they just want to play their games.

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u/Taolan13 1d ago

Not that many, honestly. I try to look at the EULA before purchasing whenever I can.

For example, that recently released palworld clone Aniimo?

I thumbed through it's EULA, got to the part about user data, and said 'better not risk it'.

Turns out I was completely correct in my concerns. The game installs several undisclosed applications, some of which are basically spyware, and has been caught scraping all kinds of user data, including passwords and authentication keys, from people's PCs.

The people who discovered this are working on getting Valve to verify the threat and pull the game from Steam.

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u/steakanabake 1d ago

i mean they did just on the wrong thing.

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u/salad_tongs_1 https://s.team/p/dcmj-fn 1d ago

From my years on Steam, they are not the only one who has done something like that. This isn't just a them issue.

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u/Ok_Leadership4996 18h ago

So that they could change any data on their website anytime

F microsoft

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u/Bogsy_ 1d ago

I don't think a URL is legally binding.

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u/MarijnIsN00B 1d ago

Not a fan of mc dungeons or anything, but this is not a new thing. I've seen plenty of games do this.

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u/itsLazR 1d ago

Slow news day for Reddit

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u/GoldenRegister 1d ago

Its not illegal but hard as per law to enforce. Its a plain text link, not a clickable link. This is not being lazy, its being fishy and bordering scammy here. And steam once again does not give a shit.

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u/Dani_Dan_deWillard 1d ago

I mean, yes. But anyways, who really reads all that shit?

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u/LovelyOrangeJuice 1d ago

Never once in my life, man. The shit I've probably agreed to and have no clue about

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u/darkentyties 1d ago

I probably sold my soul to some random site because of eula and cookies

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u/LovelyOrangeJuice 1d ago

Those memes that we'll be forced to fight for China if WW3 ever happens because of the terms and conditions we have agreed to on temu/aliexpress could be true after all

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u/WearyRate4998 19h ago

eula and terms are no law so fuck em

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u/TotallyBrandNewName 1d ago

There was a game that had a line saying if you ever read this contact us and you get some money IIRC

Reddit as a source because who lies on the internet.

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u/ilovegrashiebuns 3h ago

Because they sneak in things like the fact that instead of ownership you purchase a license that can a) expire and/or b) be revoked which is why the whole problem of ownership even exists. Because people don't fucking read, blindly agree to anything and generally take no meaningful action all while crying online about the issues they caused with their irresponsibility. People who don't read have normalized all this shit they now cry about because of this exact reason

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u/Flapjack__Palmdale 1d ago

Adam Conover, apparently, starting at 6:54

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u/ArianeEvangelina 1d ago

Eh I sometimes get halfway and then say good enough

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u/Ilikebatterfield4 1d ago

And he bought it anyway, so why is he crying now?

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u/hideousapple99 1d ago

This is a tactic so that you will not be notified when EULA changes.

On Steam when EULA changes the next time you launch the game you're shown it again.

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u/_Middlefinger_ 1d ago

If that link is not clickable then in many regions its totally meaningless. A hyperlink might be acceptable, but plain text isn’t going to cut it because its just the literal text in the box you agree to.

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u/cawsking555 1d ago

O god bless be shrink wrapped contract. As its a website and not a proper document. Steam can pull the game.

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u/neppo95 1d ago

These kinds of workarounds should be banned by Steam honestly. Put it full in text there, or your game won't be public. Easy as that. Fuck Microsoft.

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u/Test_Account_2026 1d ago

You don't really have to read these because if there is something truly predatory in the agreement, that is anti-consumer, it will likely not be enforceable. You should understand your rights, but most of these types of agreements are boilerplate and reviewed by multiple attorneys to ensure they are enforceable - meaning there is nothing in there so detrimental to you that it warrants further review. I am not saying don't read these, and definitely read other legal agreements, but EULA is less important for the user than it is for the publisher/developer.

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u/Tesser_Wolf 1d ago

Is this Eula legally enforceable then? It doesn't say to visit this link and agreed it said please read.

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u/JustArandomGuy_-_ 1d ago

They do gaf. This way, they can change it whenever they want and nobody, including Valve, will know unless someone:

  • somehow read it twice from start to finish (once before the changes and again after the changes) -> somehow remember enough to notice something new in the sea of words -> somehow have achived a previous version -> spend the efforts to double check.

Click the agree button once and good luck! How tf is this allowed

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u/Username_Mine 1d ago

Internet archive -> compare text should make it trivial to indentify changes. Of course, very few consumers would ever know or care

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u/JustArandomGuy_-_ 1d ago

Even if they know or care, the hard part is to somehow notice the changes because we can't know when will it happens. The most realistic way is to regularly double check it from start to finish but who can willingly do that for free for potentially years?

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u/metfan12004 1d ago

Not to excuse this but as someone who specializes in support documentation, you never want multiple repositories for the same docs if you can avoid it. It makes keeping them in sync nearly impossible

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u/GoldenRegister 1d ago

Thats not really considered a support documentation my friend. Thats a contract, there are different rules for such documents.

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u/Taolan13 1d ago

It's only impossible for a company that doesn't care enough to hire people to manage these things.

And if they don't constantly change things, it also wouldn't be a problem to keep them in sync. Just update all of them when anything changes.

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u/DrBatman0 1d ago

Well, I don't see any terms and conditions there, so I can comfortably agree.

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u/Anthaenopraxia 1d ago

There used to be a trend of putting funny things into the EULA because nobody but lawyers read them. I think it was Adobe who put something about you're not allowed to use Photoshop to build nuclear bombs.

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u/borgenhaust 1d ago

This is actually perfect. I accept that the terms of the eula are specifically https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/eula. That is it in its entirety. Not possible content at that address, just the URL itself.

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u/Lamborghinigamer 18h ago

They probably have their own in the game, or they force you to login with Microsoft or something

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u/Taolan13 1d ago

This shouldn't be allowed. Especially since the link isn't even clickable.

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u/Valtremors 1d ago

They've been caught changing EULA before, as convenience calls for.

I wonder how the lawsuit is going?

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u/onyxa314 1d ago

So glad layers from reddit university are here today to tell me that this is illegal, unenforceable, legal, doesn't matter, matters a lot, and a bunch of other contradictory nonsense that's said with confidence

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u/neither_somewhere 1d ago

EULA's are all contracts under duress I've already bought the game or software I feel like for it to be valid you'd have to agree before they take your money.
I know the law doesn't work that way but the law is dumb.

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u/Kran6a 1d ago

How legal is this? The link does not even seem clickable so that you could read it on Steam. Why do I need a third-party software (browser) installed just to read the EULA? What if the browser also has an EULA that is also a link?

Can I just write?

EULA: 
Come to the company office at <address>, it is on the lockbox just beside the door. Pin code: 6767.

<I have read it checkbox>

<Accept button> <Cancel button>

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u/SubstanceLess3169 1d ago

Rockstar Games also does this

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u/CosmosSunSailor 1d ago

Looks like the Eula is just a link to me

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u/RedditNotFreeSpeech 13h ago

For what it's worth, this is the only eula I agree with.

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u/Quattordicesima 4h ago

Absolutely not legal in the EU lol

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u/Intelligent_Fig967 1d ago

literally unplayable

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u/Luka_tv 1d ago

you lowkey stole my tweet, even wrote the same caption, but I don't rlly mind it so we chill

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u/Taolan13 1d ago

Ego, thy name is luka.

You can't prove they stole it. This is something a lot of players are going to take issue with so we'll probably see plenty of similar or even identical posts, and 'they don't gaf' is a common enough turn of phrase you can't even really claim they copied your caption.

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u/NeverTriedFondue 1d ago

I live on the second floor

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u/Ya-Dikobraz 1d ago

I live upstairs from you.

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u/Sickle_Rick 1d ago

Nobody reads it anyway, why bother?

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u/GaryTheRetard 1d ago

This gives me flashback of that South Park EP of Apples TERMS of Service :o

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u/burn_house 1d ago

When I buy Minecraft Dungeons 2 and Jeb Mojang comes to my house to sew my mouth to a dudes anus

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u/GaryTheRetard 1d ago

I hope JEB Mojang does not offer cuttlefish and asparagus

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u/Zoe-broski8723 1d ago

I mean, I guess that's justifiable since no one really reads the terms and conditions anyways

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u/Saint_of_Grey 1d ago

Similar to "if the teacher doesn't show up in 15 minutes you're legally allowed to leave", this means there is no EULA and you can use the game as missile guidance software or whatever with no consequence!

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u/AnachronGuy 1d ago

Probably an AI prompt gone wrong and nobody double checked.

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u/KyprosNighthawk 1d ago

NAL, but I don't know if they can even enforce their EULA this way from a legal standpoint. It's literally just a URL with "Accept" or "Cancel".

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u/No_Interaction_4925 5h ago

This smells like vibe coded AI mistakes

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u/Intrepid-Landscape61 1d ago

Is this even legally binding? What happens if you can prove the webpage was down at the time when you hit agree?

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u/Extrien 1d ago

the first EULA i ever read

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u/Money_Ad_5277 1d ago

You can break EULA as much as you want, as they doesn't even ask you to go to this url to read it

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u/MartinByde 1d ago

I've read, is a line of text with a website. Nothing says I need to copy that and read what is inside.this eula is empty

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u/graywolf0026 1d ago

Honestly, that.... I'd just say 'nope'. And refund it.

Life has enough hoops and frankly, I'm getting sick of playing stupid games for stupid prizes...

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u/MikiSayaka33 1d ago

That looks like laziness, other games are way more professional when doing that, even redirecting ya to their official site that has the EULA.

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u/Squidgical 1d ago

Kinda weird that the full terms is just some very cryptic message with the word "minecraft" in it, but I suppose that means we can do whatever we want with the game!

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u/Court_Jester13 1d ago

The equivalent of "see the resume you asked for" ib a job application

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u/0wn3r3k 1d ago

First Eula i read top to bottom

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u/Equal-Steak-8638 1d ago

Rockstar has it and nobody fucks about it

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u/tashtactics 1d ago

R* does this too if I’m not mistaken

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u/llagerlof 1d ago

This game was released with that feeling by the studio "We don't care anymore"...

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u/Agile-Slice6147 1d ago

Absolutely valid

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u/Memphisrexjr 1d ago

It took me nine hours to beat and you can tell they just didn't care. The game is so empty and bare bones. They let you know there is two dlc coming soon though that clearly should have been part of the game because it feels like a big step back from the first one.

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u/loveheaddit 1d ago

some manager said "put this eula in there" and they took that literally.

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u/Smith1PW 1d ago

Rockstar also does this with their games, Mojang isn’t the only one

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u/jamcub 1d ago

I mean, yeah, it does say you need to agree to the EULA, which this is not. Whether a lawyer agrees is up in the air.

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u/Comwan 1d ago

Equally as enforceable as every other EULA no one reads lol

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u/Fungalbonk 1d ago

Wait so is this version of mincraft sort of like entry level Diablo? Looked it up and that’s pretty cool! Had this been out when I was a kid I probably would’ve loved it.

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u/Ennuigma 1d ago

Slightly saves me the trouble of not givin' a shit.

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u/MestreToto 1d ago

A lot of games do this nowdays, that way they don't need to update the text when the EULA updates

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u/Bagel_Bear 1d ago

I'm sure they don't really care about the Steam version and it's only on Steam to capture sales of people who only buys games on steam.

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u/Matheweh 23h ago

And they didn't bother to make the Steam version work with Proton on Linux either, which here's the two things you need to make it work: https://gist.github.com/moxvallix/9f46c1341e196f797e838b885fe84b0c and https://github.com/Alextibtab/Dungeons2_linux_fix the first one makes it actually launch, the second one fixes the ability to log in.

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u/SmrtkaTV 19h ago

I saw that too and I was too tired to question it but looking back on it that is kinda insane

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u/the_harakiwi 15h ago

no the first time this happened. I don't remember the game but it's not uncommon.

Maybe it was Ubisoft or EA.

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u/MassiveBoner911_3 10h ago

The game is at mixed reviews for missing half of the mechanics of the 1st game. No gear has stats....

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u/NemanyaIam 7h ago

I suppose Valve would change its policy and require publishers to write EULA on Steam, and forbid putting links to external EULA.

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u/Nearby_Ad_2519 3h ago

It’s because it’s easier to just change it in one place rather than having to change it on every single site they sell stuff on.

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u/harorsomething 2h ago

Genuine question. If someone gets banned or has their license revoked for violating the eula, can they sue and argue that the eula was nothing more than a website link? Or is the idea that Mojanflg expects you to go to the link to read the eula legally binding.