Should Blizzard negate their ownership of every copy of SC2?

[hyde]

Just a side note to add on the EULA's, iTunes EULA is over 60++ pages of text and conditions. I'm sure Apple could, in a theoretical sense, have their customers by their balls.
Maybe so could Blizzard. But seriously, we're talking about a company who does not pernamently ban map hackers on the first or (Now correct me if I'm wrong on the #) second count of hacking. You just get a slap on the wrist, until the third time.

VALVE just outright bans your game completely on one breach of cheating.
You could call this draconian but as these companies get bigger, they need to protect their product from the unwaivering amount of trolls lurking on their services.

Dustin, the EULA is nothing to be worrying about. If you want a more valid argument to bash Blizzard, you should go back to the lack of tournament tools.

[dustinbrowder]

Just a side note to add on the EULA's, iTunes EULA is over 60++ pages of text and conditions. I'm sure Apple could, in a theoretical sense, have their customers by their balls.
Maybe so could Blizzard. But seriously, we're talking about a company who does not pernamently ban map hackers on the first or (Now correct me if I'm wrong on the #) second count of hacking. You just get a slap on the wrist, until the third time.

VALVE just outright bans your game completely on one breach of cheating.
You could call this draconian but as these companies get bigger, they need to protect their product from the unwaivering amount of trolls lurking on their services.

Dustin, the EULA is nothing to be worrying about. If you want a more valid argument to bash Blizzard, you should go back to the lack of tournament tools.

my points exactly, they are as closed as it could be of an eco-system and blizzard is following them.

My point is that ultimately that is bad for the consumers(less choice, worse stuff, etc...) and it will become bad for the company in due time.

Example: Microsoft OS has developed so much due to choice. you got all these programs, games, browsers, etc... and a ton of them.
In Apple OS you get only what Apple serves you and if its crap there is nothing you can do about it, but eat it still.

Now with apple people are pretty stupid to buy an inferior product because of name or looks, but with creating such a closed environment with games is suicide for blizzard and its bad as we've established above in the example for the consumers.

[TheEconomist]

Guys, you need to stop shit-talking Romanians. My parents are Romanian and though I am their biological child, I never lived there, only been on visits. Romanians are not douchebags or assholes.

LOL! Nobody was "shit-talking". Did you even read the post I was replying to? All I did was reference an actual, FACTUAL event that happened last year where Romanians shot some (unrelated) school officials because they were not giving Romanians ethnic scholarships in the way that blacks and cubans were. If I were Romanian, I'd be pretty pissed too, so, where did you get "shit-talking" from? Besides, even if that weren't the case, if it's a fact, it's a fact, and not shit-talking. If it offends you, again, not my problem if that wasn't my intention.

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Now carry-on with discussion.

[Dalarsco]

1. That's how games work.
2. I've often wondered how well some aspects of a EULA would hold up in court.

[Quirel]

I agree. Its the Polish who are the real scum.

*looks around for Spychi*

You will take that back, or the entire Zarowski clan will descend from the hills and pelt you to death with potatoes.

[TheEconomist]

Project 3rd graders > w/e clan

[Noctis]

Whether the EULA holds up in court doesn't matter, going to court is win win for companies. It's like Sony vs the (*!^(%*^*!^(*%^(%^ hackers that ruined OtherOS and opened PS3 to piracy - if Sony wins these guys are effed mwahahah. HOWEVER, if Sony loses....they can still drag this entire case out. What does that mean for Sony/companies like Blizzard? They have billions/millions of dollars so spending a couple hundred thousand or million in a court case is like "whatevs yo" for them. Buuuuut, for the average hacker or consumer? Hahahaha by the time they finally end the case you'll be lucky to have a cardboard box to sleep in the alley you now reside in. And even if you get a settlement chances are that money is gunna end up going to all the loans and debts you owe for your defense, if you break even you're lucky.

[TheEconomist]

If Blizzard is willling to spend "a couple hundred thousand or million in a court case" then you best believe the defendant deserved it.

[Crazy_Jonny]

I gotta ask dustinbrower, if Blizzard for some reason changed their EULA, what exactly would you gain out of it, literally speaking?

[Dalarsco]

Whether the EULA holds up in court doesn't matter, going to court is win win for companies. It's like Sony vs the (*!^(%*^*!^(*%^(%^ hackers that ruined OtherOS and opened PS3 to piracy - if Sony wins these guys are effed mwahahah. HOWEVER, if Sony loses....they can still drag this entire case out. What does that mean for Sony/companies like Blizzard? They have billions/millions of dollars so spending a couple hundred thousand or million in a court case is like "whatevs yo" for them. Buuuuut, for the average hacker or consumer? Hahahaha by the time they finally end the case you'll be lucky to have a cardboard box to sleep in the alley you now reside in. And even if you get a settlement chances are that money is gunna end up going to all the loans and debts you owe for your defense, if you break even you're lucky.

Think of the bad publicity, though. If they sue someone who opens a game to piracy then no one will care. If they sue random users then they look really, really bad.