In , she rose to fame with the release of 'Vision of Love' from her eponymous. You will get minimum size zip file for the Album Merry Christmas. Mariah Carey is a well-known singer, both by oldies of the 90s and millennials of the s. In , she rose to fame with the release of 'Vision of Love' from her eponymous debut album. This is very clear case in witch: 1 the defendant Steam has been enriched; 2 this enrichment is at the claimant's you as a gamer buying games expense; 3 this enrichment at the claimant's expense is unjust they keep money and games for themselves ; and 4 there is no applicable bar or defence you have confirmation - from bank or similar- that you paid for games and denied of them in same time from Steam.
They Steam just cannot keep your money and in same time keep your games. They are enriched twice at your expense. It is unjust by the laws of all countries in the world. You don't own steam games. Read the ToS. You're paying for digital distribution, an entirely different set of laws that are still being grokked out in the US.
They absolutely, at this time, deny your access to their distribution platform, if you break their terms of use which denying would ultimately do. It costs me more than double of what was original price. I tried to complain but they told me, no in so many words, to get lost.
That was my last contact with Steam. I have some more recent games as well that were on Steam but I do not and will not ever again use Steam. Moreover, I do not by any more games and I am not the only one. I know 16 other people just in my area who have done the same. As industry states that one of the reasons for DRM and Steam is to prevent piracy how come there is so much of it going on then? It's all nothing but con to keep gamers under their control.
Unfortunately, most gamers from personal experience are too thick to even think that if they do not buy any games for a year all those issues will have to be redressed as game companies would start losing too much money and some even go out of business. Quite frankly, I don't care anymore.
I enjoy biking, reading , music and talking to people more than ever and will never again worry about stupid PC games unless I get them DRM and Steam free. I have had issues with steam customer support many times over the years. It is indicative of the arrogance of the organization by how little they attempt to help their own customers. For me, I'm done with them, I'm not interested in an organization that treats it's users like arse when they have an issue.
You deserve everything you get for being stupid enough to give up your rights. You do not need particular games to survive. Too many gamers are weened on their lazy habits of convenience and willingness to give up their rights to complaint later about not wanting to loose the money they spent.
If you were to track precisely how you spend your money on crap and foolish convenience, you will find that you waste a great deal of money that you are not even aware of spending.
So where are you saving money by buying lazy convenience. Boycott Steam and any other company that screws you over. But then again, all you entitled bores weenies have no will power to do right for your selves.
And companies like Steam know this. And exploit it. You sow what you reap. Stop complaining. Your argument is valid, but I have one question. Why on God's green earth would I want to start a class-action lawsuit against steam in the first place?
This is no different than hitting I agree to every piece of software you install on your computer. If you hit decline, you don't get to use it.
I don't think I am giving up my rights I'm choosing to use a service that has the best selection of games. Like Darkside said, he has used the service for 13 years with no problem.
The company is making money hand over fist That's just the way I see things. I most likely have no intentions of ever starting a class action lawsuit, or joining one, but your example is not the same as the reality of declining Steam's tos.
You paid for those games, and you own them, they shouldn't automatically have the right to take them away. Now if they want to block me from all games made by valve, then sure, I'm fine with that. Or block me from future updates through the steam client for all my games, that would suck, but seems somewhat fair.
But to block me from other games, as well as wipe my account in it's entirety. No, I'm not fine with that. That means you a pretty big jerk to everyone but other people who agree with you - the others who ruin it for the rest of us. They're neither being a jerk, nor do they sound unintelligent. You just sounded like both though, when you insulted instead of discussed. I would argue that something like this is far less important than a major US Constitution issue, and it's impossible to get up in arms about everything unless that's your hobby or something, I've known plenty of hobbyist politicians I guess, I don't have that time so you have to pick your battles.
This guy hasn't had an issue with buying access to online content, so it's not an issue To Him. That's his personal opinion, shaped by his experiences. If he ever had an issue, his stance might change, and it might become a bigger issue to him. Personally, I'm usually of the opinion that if something seriously bad happens, people will rise up to voice against it.
Social media is powerful these days, changes can and do happen with major companies because of the voice of their users. This has always been true, we just have a much louder mouthpiece now. In a worst case scenario, Steam would likely lose a lot of users, and a new service would rise to the top and take its place. Capitalism ebbs and flows. There are consequences to your actions, as a company and as a consumer. Steam knows better than to do something truly destructive, and if they don't, we can all jump ship then.
That's why I'm not worried, just as ET isn't. I'm sorry if you've had problems, I hope they get resolved and that you find a new way to play the games you want, the way you want, whenever you god damned please. I am, right now! Most people are complaining not losers your wrong we are trying to fine some one and its not you of course or you would not give this type of advice. What metrics are you using to determine that humanity is a failed experiment? What other civilizations are you judging it against?
Fairy tales? Science fiction? Impossible utopias? You say humanity should die ASAP. Are you going to start with yourself? Not that I'm wanting you to, I just wish people would think before they speak. Anyone who decides to go to bed with Steam simply hasn't been burnt yet or else has a very myopic view about how services like this result in unforgivable losses of freedoms once enjoyed back when games were still sold in boxes and purchased by people with separate senses of identity.
Those were the golden years of computer gaming and many other things and unfortunately, it seems like they are gone forever now due to the abysmal manifestations of services like this steaming pile of crap. I get what they're trying to do: defeat piracy.
I'll find other methods of entertainment that can be both physically tangible, that I can own, and be overall more entertaining. I'll never mimic Judas: no game is worth that devil's deal. The moral of the story is this: Steam can go shove a license up it's ass until it chokes to death on it's own arbitrated asshole. Yes this is how they think to solve piracy unfortunately they are willing partners in piracy after all if you buy a secondhand boxed game you are the lawful owner the seller has sold the rights lawfully to you so you can use that game as intended Steam pirates don't allow you and neither do the publishers to use this boxed game as intended but are happy for the seller who has willingly and freely sold all lawful rights to the use of this software to continue using this software.
That in it's most base form is piracy you are using a piece of software you no longer have the right to use so thankyou steam and all software companys selling on steam for under terms of service making it that you now have no legal rights against anyone using pirated software, as obviously as a willing party endorsing the use of pirate software by the seller you now accept this is a legal and binding part of your TOS etc.
Hah, that's why I support piracy! Seriously, people spend their money on software games, music, movies , but if they're unsatisfied with the service, they lose both their money AND the OWNED merchandise - how is that legal anyway? I've never really used Steam I don't believe much in e-commerce, but I've also always felt the service as somehow manipulative , and I don't much plan to. Sony is doing the same, and their politics are the worst but even that, millions of PlayStations are sold.
Buy your game on Steam, if you don't like it, ask a refund and that's the end of the story. Nobody can stop me. That's just flat out wrong. That's not entirely correct. I have no experience with the Playstations, but for both the XBox and the XBox One, whenever a new dashboard comes out, you can not use your XBox until you download and install it.
The dashboard being the main interface, means that Microsoft can simply change what you can do with your machine whenever they want, and you have no choice but to accept these changes, even if you consider them harmful to you as a consumer. In the case of the , I believe you could use your console, but couldn't connect to Live, thus cutting you off from a service that you're paying for until you accept the changes and install the new dashboard. In the case of the One, you can't even enter the dashboard when a new version comes out; you simply get a prompt to install the new dashboard, and if you decline, the machine simply turns off.
Your only option is to boot it up again and install the dashboard. Then there's XBox Live. It's a subscription service that includes two free games every month as part of the deal.
While you have no choice as to which games you'll receive it's determined by whatever region your machine is set to , on the those games were yours forever. On the One, as soon as you cancel your Live subscription, you'll lose access to your games.
Sure, you could argue that you haven't really bought those games, since they came 'free' with a paying subscription. But you still paid a Live subscription, those games were one of the things you got in return, and as soon as you stop your subscription, those games are taken away.
Steam as a corporation, will eventually leave you with nothing. You have only bought access to it with their conditions and when they want you to have it. After purchases with steam I learned my lesson. I turned in a guy who created a forum collecting donations for a copy of his pirated game distributor is out of business now. Steam actually sells this game is what is so clueless.
In response the guy bans me the report goes to the guy-forum leader and NOT STEAM and steam does nothing to control the retribution I received for a legit piracy report.
Steam enable piracy. Steam cares nothing for legit customers. If you expect to have any common sense or reasonable decision from a Steam representative or arbitrator, your clueless.
They lost my confidence that they could functional make rational decisions regarding access to the material I purchased through them. I don't buy steam. They are dishonest is what I walked away from in my experience with a simple 'report' they encouraged in their guidelines.
Its all just words to them. They don't mean them. They don't even attempt to follow what they 'say' they do. There is dumb but then well below that level is this comment.
Some people really would if told jump of a cliff go ahead and blindly do it. It is you who has to open your eyes so do not talk about dumb If stupid was painful you'd be on permanent morphine drip.
Well why did you think you were able to purchase most of those games at such a bargain price? It's because you don't physically own the game. I think steam is a great service, but it needs one very critical thing in its terms of service. And that would be to state that, if they were to go out of business, or get bought by another company, or have any business situation change that would cause termination of the service, that they are required to unlock your library for you, and then you own it at that point instead of just leasing.
I hate the fact that the software industry as a whole is moving toward leases and subscriptions, but I'm not sure what we can do about it, except let the free market prevail and support competition that doesn't do this. Steam is sh8ty service as mentioned so many times already. There is a whole lot we can do - DON'T buy their products and see how long they last.
You are not leasing you own those copies and the right to the use of said copies till you decide you have had enough of playing them. Here in the UK a company can write what ever it wants in it's TOS but unless it is fair it is un-enforceable in law ie not worth the paper it is written on. I make very clear payment is due in the form of a free download ie a pirated copy of one of their latest games in an email. Just forgot to add that you cannot play those boxed games if they require steam even if you 'blackmail' them and they supply you new code.
So, you're still buggered as you are still forced on steam. That is why here in west london there are quite few people that buy a single game among them and then share steam account and all play the same game.
And stupidity of the system is actually contributing to loss of sales. Yes I understand but it is the first step in the right direction even steam are breaking the ECJ ruling re the resale of digital downloaded games they try and say you are not buying a copy but the ruling that came down says otherwise and if steam or any software company wish to trade in the EU they have to observe the laws.
Once a piece of software is sold by the author even if that sale is for FREE they exhaust their rights and may not impede the rights of any lawful owner be that the second owner who buys it from the original purchaser or the tenth owner.
The lawful owner must be able to run the software as intended which in the case of a game means play it fully albeit if your system is capable of playing it. Any company be it Sega EA Codemasters or Valve via Steam may not by law impede that use doing so is a clear infringement of rights and is by definition criminal as they are breaking the law.
If we stand up for our rights as I do and enough of us do it we will force a change and then we can start working with these company's to make the PC gaming community stronger more vibrant and hopefully increase sales for these company's. But the first move to observe the ECJ ruling as in the Oracle v Usersoft ruling has to come from the company's as it is them wishing to trade in the EU they are not forced to trade here. Steam could face serious penal charges and compensation costs.
I have not signed up for steam. I was leery about the company anyway. I just do not feel putting my gaming experience in another entity's hands makes me all that comfortable.
I appreciate the posters response to steams changed terms of agreement. I will take heed and avoid steam altogether as well. I wish I could buy new titles like the good old days Unfortunately, there are games on retail sale that one is not aware require steam until after purchase mail order, Amazon etc.
That is how I fell for it. Worse still, I only play single player campaigns given up on multiplayer after couple of tries and tantrums of demented 10 year olds? Steam is slowly doing a good job of removing itself from the industry. Instead of being picky, and only allowing very good, top-quality, AAA titles Every time I open up Steam these days I feel like I'm staring t the bargain software shelves at Walmart They have 'not interested' flags, but their preference algorithm doesn't bother learning from games you flag as 'not interested' in, so you keep getting the same bottom-feeder, puppy-milled garbage shoved in your face.
I've told Steam I'm not interested in Ero-Manga dating novels tons of times.. This is what's killing Steam. They are catering to developers They cater to anyone that will shove anything onto the Steam Store that could possibly make Steam a buck by suckering some poor soul into buying it. Games that are broken or no longer work are allowed to stay on the store just on the off-chance someone buys it and finds out the hard way the game no longer works.
Valve doesnt' care. They got paid, so whatever you're stuck with doesn't matter to them anymore. Finding a game on Steam has also turned into the equivilent of digging through the bargain bin at Best Buy circa There is no way for you to proactively filter out game genres you don't want from the start to keep from getting slapped in your face every day by new ones coming out Actively digging for a game lets you pick tags or search criteria, but since the store has been flooded with puppy-milled, bottom-feeder, bleed-a-dollar games it's impossible to really find anything worthwhile.
The review system lets developers create accounts and fluff up their scores. Old, busted games are left in the store. Every day a new, massive wave of slop is thrown in the trough. They don't want to make it where potential customers can hide aspects of the store, because they just want everything throw in your face like you're on the Vegas strip with angry street hustlers antagonizing you into a purchase.
So, you feel insulted when you open the steam store, hustled by all the garbage in it, and victimized when you do finally buy something. At this point, deleting someone's account is probably the nicest thing they could do. It would be like telling someone they are no longer allowed at a flea market. Now you have to go to a much nicer store to do your shopping. Valve has decided that quantity is more profitable then quality. In the short-run, yes, it is. But, int he long run, they have gotten a reputation for having horrible selectioin and bloated libraries of garbage.
This is a death knell in the long run. People get tired of wading through the flea market staring at dime-store junk. But, this underlines Steam's philosophy.
You are not a customer. They don't want to make it easy for you to avoid it. This is what happens when a company puts the needs of its suppliers ahead of the needs of its customers. If Valve had any cajones left, they'd shut down Greelight, Early Access, and stop allowign Free-to-Play and other garbage on their site.
Try to salvage some shred of dignity before your die, Valve. Because you're dying Not everyone just wants the latest Battlefield of Duty: Sims 2k Why would I want only AAA titles? The benefit of steam is that I have all my games in an easy list. I don't want Steam to pick the few games I can play, that defies the purpose of steam. Item 1: When I purchase something, whether it be milk, a car, a book or a video game, I own it, and that ownership is non-negotiable, assuming my ownership of such said item does not bring harm to society or fall into the rare case of imminent domain.
Item 2: When I sign a contract or terms of service agreement, those rule are lasting and binding; they may not be changed without my a notification AND b consent; if either of those two conditions are not met, then the original contractual terms hold.
Now, if item 1 and item 2 are violated, such as steam taking away software I have paid for because I wish to continue doing business based upon the original terms of service, then I absolutely consider it a theft. If you disagree, consider this extrapolation of the contractual 'bait and switch' routine.
You take a 3 year auto loan from the bank you do business with. You make all your payments on time, and in full. But one day your lender decides to unilaterally change the terms of your loan, specifying that you must forfeit your car if you ever decide to sue or close your account with said lender.
If you object, you will be found in violation of the new terms of agreement and your lender will repossess your vehicle. I know lobbyist have been able to buy politicians and make this corrupt practice legal, but it is morally wrong and I for one refuse to participate. I have already left USBank, Farmer's Insurance and Raymond James for such 'bait and switch' contractual agreements; Steam will be treated no different. Those 2 arent linked, and it could never happen that when windows crashes, you also lose your steam account.
First class nonsense. Because you bought stuff without thinking? And now years later you dont blame your purchase habbits to yourself, but to steam? Its Steams fault that you have a hole in your wallet??? Yeah ofcourse And i want my playboy subscribtion to be transferred to christianitytoday Stupid people Not to make money, but to annoy people. All those words and yet no thought into one single one of them.
If you buy a game you buy the right to use it as you see fit you can burn the disc you can put it in the bin the publisher can do nothing about you doing either but you think they can stop you re-selling your lawful right to use it. We do not rent or lease from steam we buy with a one off payment. You can as long as you acknowledge the interlectual rights of the publisher to be identified as the said publisher do what you want you can add a MOD pack just look at APOE for examples of the game being seriously modded by third party developers but still retaining the interlectual rights of Microsoft as the publisher.
You have a lawful right to resell just as you can transfer your playboy subscription to someone else be that person a friend who gives you money for it or not. Steam want to brainwash you into thinking you do not have rights but a quick search online will soon show that you do. I always thought of Steam as an infinite gaming platform, that has a variety of genres. But I did purchase a lot of games not all through Steam , and the point is that as time goes by, I keep regretting my choices of even buying those games.
I wish that I could have all of my money back or at least the refund system would've been 'installed' earlier'. I do not know what to do. It wouldn't be reasonable to leave, but as I read, I think that I might do it.
Since I feel like those favorite titles right? My computer hard drive crashed and when I bought a new computer windows 10 I was unable to recover my account. I went thru their recovery system and was never able to get the account back. I will never buy another game that requires steam.
Yeah, this happens only on the side of the final consumers who have no financial backup to contest draconian laws and have to subject themselves to this type of shit pushed down their throats by crappy, low level scumbag, non moral, abusive companies that do that all the time.
Now, check on the corporate side: do you ever see any company anything similar? It's only when the customer base is so wide and fragmented that they can 'afford' to no care and say 'meh.. Steam just crashed on me, and steam suggested I re download it again, and I lost all my previously downloaded games, and what do they care?
I spent good money for games online only to be unplayable, and the only usable game such as Half Life 2 was the downloadable versions that you buy directly from STEAM!
It's about money, money, money, and control of nearly all online games. Steam is about it's own interest not about the customers, or users.
Money, and control! Steam uses a management-free management structure, and lots of volunteer moderators. The result is that if you use forums for games you purchase on Steam to seek support, you will be belittled, insulted, harassed, stalked across other forums and in your reviews, and the moderation team will help that happen. It is not possible to transfer your game licenses off of Steam.
As a result, should you lose access to your account or even just wish to cease being their customer, you can't. You're handcuffed to them, and there is nothing you can do about it.
Valve's upper management has absolutely no concerns regarding the user experience or complaints. I actually have come to believe that Valve stopped making games because they prefer to psychologically torment the users who are foolish enough to use their 'communities'.
Steam's support is almost nonexistent. I have read of people who had their accounts hacked and were required to provide a CD key from a physical sale made almost two decades ago for assistance. It is possible to spend thousands of dollars on Steam and get banned, thus simply losing your money and your game licenses forever, with no recourse whatsoever. That amounts to theft, and they get away with it.
Steam has become an experiment in draconian commerce. It's too big, and there are too few alternatives. But the worst thing about it is that using Steam can actually ruin your experience of the games themselves, and Valve cares not one little bit about that.
Developers and publishers face the consequences for their incompetence. I believe that Valve changed their license agreement so they could abuse their users with impunity. I believe that they think themselves untouchable, and do not in the least fear that their users will go elsewhere. I believe that because so many people have thousands of dollars worth of titled built up on their accounts, Valve thinks that will keep them from leaving.
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