Admittedly I am not a very serious gamer, but this is part of why I favour DRM-free games. Humble Bundle has been great. I would feel very uncomfortable investing hundreds of dollars into a Steam account.
Customers can vote with their wallets somewhat, but I feel the situation is somewhat unfair in that many people probably do not understand what they are getting in exchange for their money. You could argue that they accepted terms somewhere, but most of those contracts are of a completely unreasonable length and I doubt many people are capable of properly interpreting them. If they do have problems with the contract, they have no power to renegotiate anything. This seems like a case where legislation to protect consumers is warranted.
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Admittedly I am not a very serious gamer, but this is part of why I favour DRM-free games. Humble Bundle has been great. I would feel very uncomfortable investing hundreds of dollars into a Steam account.
Customers can vote with their wallets somewhat, but I feel the situation is somewhat unfair in that many people probably do not understand what they are getting in exchange for their money. You could argue that they accepted terms somewhere, but most of those contracts are of a completely unreasonable length and I doubt many people are capable of properly interpreting them. If they do have problems with the contract, they have no power to renegotiate anything. This seems like a case where legislation to protect consumers is warranted.