Posted on: July 23, 2024

dome001
Verified ownerGames: 54 Reviews: 9
You cannot own this game (as per EULA)
Conveniently placed in the "system requirements" section, which nobody who buys a 20+ year old game will read, the store page tells you that by "purchasing" this game, you agree to EA's EULA, which explicitly tells you: "This Software is licensed to you, not sold." ...and places many "interesting" restrictions on you, the user, such as: "Your right to use the Software is limited to the license grant above, and you may not otherwise copy, display, seek to disable, distribute, perform, publish, modify, create works from, or use the Software or any component of it (...)" "When you play this game offline, EA and its affiliates may collect and store non-personally identifiable data including your Internet Protocol Address (...)" "By entering into this Agreement, you and EA expressly waive the right to a trial by jury or to participate in a class action." Since I do not agree to such ludicrous terms, I wanted to obtain a refund, but after about half a week, GOG basically told me to get lost, because I bought it more than 30 days ago. So now I (do not) "own" a game which I cannot play as I do not agree with its ridiculous license. Apparently DRM is fine with GOG, as long as its legal DRM (EULA), rather than software-based DRM.
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