Sim City Beta Testers: EA has a new way to oppress your playing experience!

Seems like my thinking over EA is a bit wrong. It is not a greedy company anymore, it is a tyrant !

Banning someone for not telling any bugs in the game ? I think this kind of thing should be posted in the 'Why should the person above you be banned ?' thread instead of the EULA.

My hopes is extremely low, very near to zero, and what you do, EA, is not helping at all. Even your EULA seems like a joke.

Well... a quick translation already as this it applies not only to simcity but to any product (service in reality), about the true concern for publishers.

- You also can not take advantage or disseminate in network, any kind of knowledge about deceiving or defrauding for modify or use the services, whatever of the methods that are used, so affecting billing

This should if also apply to the Keygens that are running on in the network for the Beta key so it is good to be careful.

-In the way things are going it seems that publishers adopted the style " " We know what's best for you, then stay your mouth shut. obey our rules and give us the your money."

I think I'll return to play chess!

Welp. The company is trying their hardest for me to keep disliking this game. I'll just wait like 2-3 years before purchasing this. I just ordered Cities XL 2012 to fill that 3D void.

Insanity at its best.

There is an update of EULA on http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/01/sim-city-beta-eula-includes-company-wide-ban-for-unreported-bugs/

There is an update of EULA on http://arstechnica.c...nreported-bugs/

Glad to see it is updated. Perhaps they got a lot of negative feedback from all the publicity the horrendous clause has received.

It's just that the original EULA was the standard one for all EA games, it was just meant to deter people using exploits. You don't have to report general bugs if you don't want to, but it'd be nice if you could.

It's just that the original EULA was the standard one for all EA games, it was just meant to deter people using exploits. You don't have to report general bugs if you don't want to, but it'd be nice if you could.

I'm glad you could clarify this for the community. One is lead to believe the contents of a legal contract such as the EULA are accurate to the company's intentions. It is unfortunate that EA's vague and ill-conceived clauses have only caused more confusion and thus aided in lowering much of the community's respect for the company. However, thank you for being quick to clarify the situation. Leaving such a clause unexplained would be at the expense of less beta testers and more confused/angered customers (I'm sure many would be reluctant to risk their whole Origin accounts).

Welp. The company is trying their hardest for me to keep disliking this game. I'll just wait like 2-3 years before purchasing this. I just ordered Cities XL 2012 to fill that 3D void.

prepare for performance headaches =/

champloo08, on , said:

Welp. The company is trying their hardest for me to keep disliking this game. I'll just wait like 2-3 years before purchasing this. I just ordered Cities XL 2012 to fill that 3D void.

prepare for performance headaches =/

Thats the only thing i worry about, but we'll see how it plays out. Luckly I only had to pay $10 for it.

It's just that the original EULA was the standard one for all EA games, it was just meant to deter people using exploits. You don't have to report general bugs if you don't want to, but it'd be nice if you could.

Ok, this reminds me of the old joke: What do you get when you have 100 lawyers chained to the bottom of the ocean?

MaxisGuillaume, on , said:

It's just that the original EULA was the standard one for all EA games, it was just meant to deter people using exploits. You don't have to report general bugs if you don't want to, but it'd be nice if you could.

Ok, this reminds me of the old joke: What do you get when you have 100 lawyers chained to the bottom of the ocean?

...A Good Start...

This has earmarks of hastily preparing a legal document that could have international implications. It is good that it is being revised.

I suggest that EA might want to revise their legal team, too. They clearly need to get some good copyright people on board as well as someone with ligitation experience. My limited, ancient, exposure to commercial law (1950s) seems to be better than theirs.

Spoiler alert: the game is full of bugs.