Gog has also gone down the same route with poor hiring choices and they've been attacking customers over wokeshit.
This year they also changed their terms to allow them to ban customers accounts and access to their games due to censorship.
It's quite an interesting legal point. GoG of course are subject to EU laws requiring them to remove certain materials, however the contract is governed by consumer law and its own principles of proportionality. It seems to envisage forum bans in preference to account bans. It is difficult to see how an account ban could be appropriate unless you were actively hacking (which is a crime as well as a ToS breach). A forum and / or multiplayer ban would likely be sufficient for most other types of misbehaviour.
Gog has been breaking the law or it's contracts for a while.
Although I'm not sure how UK equality law or human rights or other euro customer countries laws would affect that or if it was purely polish laws affecting them.
Gog has also gone down the same route with poor hiring choices and they've been attacking customers over wokeshit. This year they also changed their terms to allow them to ban customers accounts and access to their games due to censorship.
I thought the whole point to GOG was that, unlike Steam, you actually 'own' the games you purchase off their platform?
It is, they can't do anything to your games.
They could shut off your access to their servers to redownload the games.
"They've made their shrinkwrap licenses, now let them enforce them."
- Andrew Jackson
That seems like a class action lawsuit waiting to happen if they're not refunding in full when they pull this nonsense.
It's quite an interesting legal point. GoG of course are subject to EU laws requiring them to remove certain materials, however the contract is governed by consumer law and its own principles of proportionality. It seems to envisage forum bans in preference to account bans. It is difficult to see how an account ban could be appropriate unless you were actively hacking (which is a crime as well as a ToS breach). A forum and / or multiplayer ban would likely be sufficient for most other types of misbehaviour.
Gog has been breaking the law or it's contracts for a while. Although I'm not sure how UK equality law or human rights or other euro customer countries laws would affect that or if it was purely polish laws affecting them.