The Million-Gnome March

This past Friday a sea of Gnomish fury swept over the chilly vale of Dun Morogh. The reason? Their character class isn't balanced. AFK Gamer has details on this outpouring of tiny fury, with liveblogging from the event itself and pictures of the naked gnome march from later in the weekend. Despite GM crackdowns and general apathy towards the Warrior cause, they appear to have gotten some sort of response from a developer (even though the response has nothing to do with the march). Terra Nova has picked up the topic and poses it as a question about the right to assemble in virtual spaces.

Comments

Re:EULA

[BrookHarty]

Wrong. :)

EULA's have been proven to be invalid after you pay for a product. Now since most people bought the game, pre-payed by Credit card, then got the EULA, there are some real legal questions about this type of EULA.

Now, the EULA also doesnt cover your legal rights, you dont give them away with the EULA, you never loose your legal rights on an EULA, its not the same as a standard contract, no matter what the slashdot lawyers say.

And by the way contracts can be challanged and overturned on wording or lack of wording, or intent. Anyone who says contracts are binding, dont have the legal muscle normally to fight one.

Now, No where in the EULA does it say you must stop playing the game if Blizzard asks, it does say they can change the EULA at any time, so they could add that at a later time.

If 200 people want to protest, it only takes 5 to start the class action lawsuit. Yes, its over the top for a game, but when you start banning people and still charging their credit cards, you enter some very murky legal problems, not providing service after payment.

I'm sure a good set of lawyers for the tabacco company could keep blizzard in court for years... ;)

Law is blind, the best lawyers win, the law doesnt.

Re:Community run servers

[Jazu]

COMMUNIST!