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   Kitty Cat (kitty@kitty.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 19:25:01 JST Kitty Cat

   The new Steam Subscriber Agreement requires disputes to go to court instead of arbitration. Kinda bizarre, most big companies I've seen try to push the other way.

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 19:25:34 JST iced depresso

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     @Kitty i kinda just presumed it was the opposite.
     
     then mused we should probably make a law or two that prevents large companies like this being able to just unilaterally change terms or "just lose all your purchases lmfao"
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 19:29:35 JST iced depresso

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     • 『VRISKA』
     @vriska @Kitty yes but that's ultimately beside my point. it shouldn't be up to a company to just change the deal when they feel like it.
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     『VRISKA』 (vriska@lizards.live)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 19:29:36 JST 『VRISKA』

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     • iced depresso

     @icedquinn @kitty this is actually better for the consumer than forced arbitration in theory

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 19:33:03 JST iced depresso

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     • iced depresso
     @vriska @Kitty they could be doing the opposite and you can do literally nothing because its a de facto monopoly and you have no rights/recourse of any kind. the sole remedy is "we'll retroactively disable all your purchases" which in a normal business contract world would be glared at, but for some reason in the public world we just go ahead and let people make monopolies that do whatever the fuck it wants and just say "lol cope"
     
     idk. i don't think relying on gabe 1) staying alive and 2) feeling magnanimous is a great approach to society writ large