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[h2]Take Two Interactive's EULA [as of Febr 28, 2025] , excerpts:[/h2]
[h3]6.3. Code of Conduct. You agree that:[/h3]
[i](1) You will not use ...
(2) You will not use the Services ...
(3) You will not use the Services ...
(4) You will not use the Services ...
(5) You will not use the Services ...
(6) You will not use the Services ...
(7) You will not use the Services ...
(8) You will not use the Services ...
(9) You will not use the Services ...
(10) You will not use the Services ...
(11) You will follow any additional rules set out in the individual Community Standards that may apply to your use of specific games [...][/i]
[b]Customer:[/b] [i]"Are we done yet?!"[/i]
[b]T2:[/b] [i]"Nooooh, whither thinkest thou, paymaster!"[/i]
[i](12) In addition to the foregoing,[/i] 😅 [i]you will not use the Services ...[/i] 🤦🏼♂️
[h3]6.4. You agree that:[/h3]
[i](1) You will not use IP proxying or other methods to disguise your location or place of residence ...
(2) You will not, unless subject to separate, express written terms provided by Take-Two, use the Services ...
[...][/i]
[h3]6.7. Consequences for Violations;[/h3]
[i][...] We reserve the right to take Adverse Action against you based on information we might receive from third parties including, without limitation, other users, law enforcement, government agencies or other regulatory authorities. We are not liable for any violation of this Agreement by you or by any other user. [...][/i]
So defamation by the neighbours is also a thing again, just like back in the days of Iron Curtain and socialist dictatorships on the globe? Just a rhetorical. Of course it is.
And here comes their final nail, the unoriginal euphemism for censorship, the term the closet enemies of freedom of expression use everywhere these days under the guise of their hawked around DEI and whatnot, trying to tell a legally competent person, eligible to vote, how to think and what all not to say:
[h3]7. CONTENT MODERATION[/h3]
[i]In this Section 7, “User Material” means all User Generated Content and Custom Content.
We reserve the right to moderate the use of the Services for a variety of different purposes, including to ["but not limited to", they forgot to add, A/N]: [...] detect, modify, take-down, suppress, block, hide, remove, or delete illegal or harmful User Material; ensure your compliance with this Agreement; enforce the terms of this Agreement [...]. We reserve the right to modify, take-down, suppress, block, hide, remove, or delete any or all User Material, and report any illegal User Material and any related user information to the appropriate authorities. [...][/i]
And so it goes on and on and on. You better read this twice, all of it, before you decide to buy something from this abominable company, anything at all. Because it's not just a slip of the tongue here or there, it's so repetitious because they mean it, that's why they beat it round yer ears mantra-like, like a wet towel, like NLP, so you'll understand it if you ever happen to read it.
[b][url=https://store.steampowered.com/eula/244160_eula_0?eulaLang=english]Take Two Interactive EULA[/url][/b]
But quite a few players seem to have read it already these days and know where this is headed. Hence the ratings from once very positive now down to...well, we'll see what the bottom eventually is.
So, agreed, Zelnick! I heard ye, got it: I [i]"will not use yer services to ... waffle, waffle, waffle."[/i] Effa again, I might as well add. I've been promising that since the dereliction of RDO already. Life is too short to surround yerself with gits like these. Nothing has changed, I see.
I didn't see their Gearbox acquisition in June 2024 coming in 2021 when I bought Homeworld. But I know this much: Anything that has too much market power or concentrates too much power in a single individual will eventually go down the pan, and T2 will go down the pan too.
Then a freeze already during the tutorial, although it might have something to do with my certain under-voltage going on when I don't really intend to play, but of course I'm not inclined to even remotely try to figure out what has caused it either. Feels pretty game-related, and games that crash on my system don't belong on it. There are still plentiful games left that I haven't even touched in my library. I don't need to be bothered with a game that freezes on a fine working, up-to-date W10 on a PCIe5 NVMe powered by 12 cores of a Ryzen 9 5900X with a 16Gig RX7900XT and 32 Gigs of RAM. Maybe an Intel + Nvidia system handles it better. Just so you know. I don't need to know.
It's all a bit unfortunate for the actual devs, because the game makes a very good impression, and this is primarily about the backdrop and the mechanics of the much-vaunted and loved classic, why I once bought it in the first place, not so much about the look, but which is also convincing. But it's the politics behind the scenes that gets me every time anew. Indie still trumps in this current era [no pun]. Studios that allow or even offer themselves to be snapped up, well, they also have to live with the consequences of what their customers think of being traded to a corporate juggernaut. Changing the contractual partner? Without my consent? Never been funny. And then, to top it off, to one like ... this? Zelnick again? For all that plus a bit more: no recommendation. ❌ The actual artists of HW have certainly long since moved on anyway. So, just let's move on too.