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What in the world would that do? They can read. They have tons of money to make and are already in the works with contracts and other legal business.
A few thousand cries from people won't do jack shit.
because its better than sitting around doing nothing, at least people will voice their opinions and then Valve will be known as the pure assholes who didn't give a crap about the community and are just in it for money (pretty obvious tho)
This is an outrage, we have paid for this game already, Valve have got their money, forcing us to accept the game as a piece of adware is unacceptable. EA at least have an excuse, they have global stats to run and maintain, as well as the fact that EA just generally suck to begin with. Not to mention everyone knew (or at least should have known) that BF2142 was going to have ad's in it. Nobody ever said anything to us about the possibility of ad's being put in counter-strike when we bought it! This would only be acceptable if the game was free, but it isn't. This is a real slap in the face for us server admins who pay for our servers out of our own pocket, Valve have NOTHING to do with the running of our servers we all play on, yet they get money from it? pffft!
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Heh... Petitions. Know what petitions online are good for? Nothing.
Someone put it perfectly awhile back. Steam puts so much power in the hands of Valve. Valve can make ANY CHANGES THEY WANT to the game and if you want to play it, you HAVE to play it after downloading their patch. You can't play out of date versions anymore. When ads are released, you can't play the previous version that didn't have ads in it.
The only power left to the consumer is to stop playing the game they paid for.
Screw the petition. If and when they put ads in, lets file a class action suit. We did not buy a game with ads. We did not spend our money for a game with ads. If they release ads, sue for your money back.
Imagine if the entire CS 1.6 community, overnight, quit the game and sued Valve for their money back. I think they'd listen to THAT.
My only thought is to give it a chance...but honestly I don't expect them to figure out that the ads need to be 'non-intrusive'. As soon as those intrusive ads come out, I for one am going to sue Valve for the $20 bucks I spent on their game.
Someone put it perfectly awhile back. Steam puts so much power in the hands of Valve. Valve can make ANY CHANGES THEY WANT to the game and if you want to play it, you HAVE to play it after downloading their patch. You can't play out of date versions anymore. When ads are released, you can't play the previous version that didn't have ads in it.
The only power left to the consumer is to stop playing the game they paid for.
Screw the petition. If and when they put ads in, lets file a class action suit. We did not buy a game with ads. We did not spend our money for a game with ads. If they release ads, sue for your money back.
Imagine if the entire CS 1.6 community, overnight, quit the game and sued Valve for their money back. I think they'd listen to THAT.
My only thought is to give it a chance...but honestly I don't expect them to figure out that the ads need to be 'non-intrusive'. As soon as those intrusive ads come out, I for one am going to sue Valve for the $20 bucks I spent on their game.
You'd waste far more money fighting a losing battle. You agreed to the Steam Subscriber Agreement / EULA. There's no contest.
You'd waste far more money fighting a losing battle. You agreed to the Steam Subscriber Agreement / EULA. There's no contest.
Bullshit there isn't, fuckstick. Only a rabid moron views EULAs as anything of substance. Welcome to the concept of not being able to completely nullify consumer rights simply by creating an unverifiable, one-sided wishlist of presumptuous legalese.
the thing is a EULA will hold up in a court of law (and has before).
When you petition something from the government (local, state, or federal) and gain all of the signatures from the people that's when a petition (might) work, but online petitions almost never do no matter the instance.
Like it was stated boycotts do work, but I've already spent too much time and money on my steam account (including purchasing HL2 and other products) to make it worth it for me to boycott and many people will be in the same boat. And like I said before: it costs money to upkeep those content servers and constant inflow of cash from ads will help keep those upkeep costs low.
If I HADN'T put so much an investment into my steam account, If I hadn't purchased anything yet on steam then I'd see a boycott more feasable, but too many people have put too much an investment into it.
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