> So its fine that they force you to agree to something when you paid for it but its not fine when they do the thing you agreed too?
Two things can be both "not fine" but one can still be worse than the other.
Two things can be both "not fine" but one can still be worse than the other.
Just because one has done it and the other hasn't is a technicality to me since that could change overnight.
The point that I am trying to make here is that it is insane to me that all of this is focused on Sony. And frankly I don't have a good solution here, but just arguing that one TOS is better than another because one company hasn't done the thing yet but could is not a good argument.
How many times have we seen management change, companies being bought, whatever and suddenly something really bad happens.
I am just getting really frustrated by Sony this, Sony that. Boycot sony, etc when if all we do is move to another platform with the same policies do we really expect anything to change?
it's not the same overall risk though.
accurate risk assessment includes past incidents in the calculation. sony has a demonstrated pattern, valve does not.
if you choose to ignore past behavior in your risk assessments, you are doing it wrong.
Things can change, just because you make your risk assessment doesn't mean you should ignore that there is still something in that contract that could turn on you just as easily.
Should we go back 10 years, maybe the risk would have been the same. Did Sony do any of these things then, but the policy was the same. How about 10 years from now, just because of your "risk assessment" doesn't mean that Valve is suddenly safer, just just means so far they have been safer.
I am not saying don't use Valve, but there is zero reason to believe they could not just as easily do this.