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Quote from: Dr_Pixel;891452
Please look at the link I gave a few posts above - it is an announcement on the EA site that the EULA of the Content Manager is now the official EULA for the game itself and all expansions.
And it does, in fact, have all the "non commercial" references removed.
It also makes no reference to sharing files - but it didn't before, either.
Are paysites now legal? That is misleading, since they never were illegal - a EULA is a two-party contract, not a law. Before this, you could validly make the claim that paysites were in violation of the EULA, or guilty of Breach of Contract. Now you can not.
Do you (I am using "you" in the collective sense) have to agree to the new EULA? Not now, not until they actually put it into an expansion pack that you install - and they have said that it is too late to include this new EULA in the next expansion.
However, what you do in regards to the EULA has no bearing on what other people do - once again, a EULA is a two party contract, not a public law. What I mean is that I am not bound in any way by a EULA that someone else accepts, only by a EULA that I accept myself.
The idea that Maxis/EA has any responsibility for user-made content is also false - they allow people to make and distribute it, but they clearly say that they do not endorse it, and you are supposed to include that statement on your website.
They even take it further, by putting up that warning notice when you start the game saying that the custom content you have installed could damage your game, and you must purposely click on the button to allow custom content to stay in your game at that point. Basically this amounts to another contract, relieving them of any responsibility for custom content of any kind, pay or free.
And it does, in fact, have all the "non commercial" references removed.
It also makes no reference to sharing files - but it didn't before, either.
Are paysites now legal? That is misleading, since they never were illegal - a EULA is a two-party contract, not a law. Before this, you could validly make the claim that paysites were in violation of the EULA, or guilty of Breach of Contract. Now you can not.
Do you (I am using "you" in the collective sense) have to agree to the new EULA? Not now, not until they actually put it into an expansion pack that you install - and they have said that it is too late to include this new EULA in the next expansion.
However, what you do in regards to the EULA has no bearing on what other people do - once again, a EULA is a two party contract, not a public law. What I mean is that I am not bound in any way by a EULA that someone else accepts, only by a EULA that I accept myself.
The idea that Maxis/EA has any responsibility for user-made content is also false - they allow people to make and distribute it, but they clearly say that they do not endorse it, and you are supposed to include that statement on your website.
They even take it further, by putting up that warning notice when you start the game saying that the custom content you have installed could damage your game, and you must purposely click on the button to allow custom content to stay in your game at that point. Basically this amounts to another contract, relieving them of any responsibility for custom content of any kind, pay or free.
That clears things up...
