Paysite Discussion Thread
kathy:
I will say in reality not even 5% donates. This site alone, which has almost 220,000 members has only received %.003 of the members donate. This is total number of donators. People who only donate once or people who donate monthly.
Inge Jones:
Quote from: Dr_Pixel;789458
Hacked objects? Custom Careers? New animations? No way! Almost everything you all love to download is in violation of the EULA.
Remember that when you ask Maxis to enforce their EULA...
Exactly the point I have been trying to make all along. It was all very well encouraging fellow players and creators to rethink pay content at a community level, but once everyone started hassling EA to get involved I got an ominous feeling that it would all end in tears.
pickpock:
But why would EA/Maxis go to court against people who (for to personal gain) try to make the game more fun to play for everyone?
As I see it, it turns into a lawsuit only when people make money from it. Because then it turns into a more sensitive matter, seeing as EA (as a company wanting to make a profit) would rather have people giving money to THEM, not some paysite.
BeosBoxBoy:
pickpock, all contracts, even a EULA stand as a whole item. Either they are valid totally, or the are invalid totally. It is really that binary. Under the Uniform Commercial Code - the body of federal law that governs all contract law in the USA which is where this EULA will be tried and enforced - if the lawyers of EA do not enforce EVERY SINGLE CLAUSE, then the EULA is invalid, ergo, paysites are legal and valid.
It is really that cut and dry.
You pull the pin on the hand grenade, it goes off. Sic transit gloria mundi.
pickpock:
Well, isn't it still a point of EA wanting to take it to court or not? I mean, I think they have stated that they have an interest in wanting to do away with paysites, but if they don't want to make a lawsuit against the custom career &Co people, who'd make them?
I realise that this could be a good defense for the paysite people, because they then can point at EA and the other 'violators' of the EULA and say: they're doing it too! But they're getting away with it, but I still hope that the EA lawyers are gonna come up with some legal mumbo jumbo making everything but paysites okay ;) Cause as far as I see it, it'll be in the company's best interest.
Might be wishing in vain, I know, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens I guess.
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