Keep your legal rights when you buy video games

[CRTGAMER]

The "You can't sue me clause" stinks, but on the other side maybe this can be a good thing. The U.S. is the land of the free money lawsuit, there should be a law preventing the "Emotional Stress" cash cow. Allow lawsuits only for real financial loss and medical bills, not pay the stinking lawyers and freeloaders.

Its bad when there are ads on TV for loan companies to cash advance install payments of lawsuit winnings. I mean come on, a business module strictly for loans of Court Settlements?!!

[J T]

I agree that the U.S. is an overly litigious society and I hate hearing about frivolous lawsuits in the news as well, but I don't want to surrender my individual rights to benefit corporations. I don't think there is much of a silver lining here. I can just not sue them rather than give up my rights.

[Luke]

So what are these lawsuits over? Data collection?

[Ziggy]

I would think that even if I mailed that letter in, and had it sent as registered mail, that they would conveniently lose that letter when it came time for me to sue them.

I don't even understand how big companies think they can do something like this. OK, you don't wanna get sued. Who does? But they're being so transparent right now. "We haven't been doing a good job and we think we'll be continuing our sub par standards, but we don't want you to sue us. So instead of raising the bar, we'll just put a no sue clause in our EULAs. PROBLEM SOLVED!"

Instead of giving us quality products and services, they are saying that they don't want to, and they don't wanna be held responsible for it either. Way to go!

[AppleQueso]

Instead of giving us quality products and services, they are saying that they don't want to, and they don't wanna be held responsible for it either. Way to go!

They keep pushing around with shit like this, eventually even the most loyal and tolerant of their customers are going to get fed up and abandon ship.

You'd think after their first big blunder at the ps3 launch they would've learned that you shouldn't take your customers for granted. I guess they didn't.

[ZeroAX]

They keep pushing around with shit like this, eventually even the most loyal and tolerant of their customers are going to get fed up and abandon ship.

You have way more faith in humanity than I do.

[BoringSupreez]

They keep pushing around with shit like this, eventually even the most loyal and tolerant of their customers are going to get fed up and abandon ship.

You have way more faith in humanity than I do.

It's not gonna happen, ask your average game shopper at Gamestop or the electronics section at Walmart. They don't even know this is happening, not a clue. People can't get fed up about something they don't know exists.

[o.pwuaioc]

They keep pushing around with shit like this, eventually even the most loyal and tolerant of their customers are going to get fed up and abandon ship.

You have way more faith in humanity than I do.

It's not gonna happen, ask your average game shopper at Gamestop or the electronics section at Walmart. They don't even know this is happening, not a clue. People can't get fed up about something they don't know exists.

I think it's deeper. There's so much shit in corporate America that most people just don't give a fuck about even knowing it anymore. Wal-Mart pulls all kinds of shit all the time, treats their employers like dirt, regularly discriminates, but you tell people that and they shrug their shoulders and pretend like you never said anything. Game companies are only doing what many megacorps are already doing. To think that we will one day "wizen up" is just not likely. Europe will be the last haven of legal rights in a very short time.

[ZeroAX]

Europe will be the last haven of legal rights in a very short time.

Do Canadians also not have rights?

[MrPopo]

So instead of raising the bar, we'll just put a no sue clause in our EULAs. PROBLEM SOLVED!"

The problem is that even if they raise the bar, they still won't be perfect. They can't be. So they're still going to experience the possibility of lawsuits. So the EULA update is still necessary. Of course, the cynical among us will point out that there's no reason to raise their bar if the EULA update is there.