The Gamer's Bill of Rights

Edge Magazine is running a piece by Brad Wardell, CEO of game developer Stardock, in which he presents a "Gamer's Bill of Rights." Stardock teamed up with Gas Powered Games to develop a list of ideals they think all game publishers should follow. Some are rather basic operational guidelines (not requiring a disc to play, minimum requirements that make sense), and some are aimed at repairing the damaged relationship between game companies and customers ("Gamers shall have the right to not be treated as potential criminals by developers or publishers"). Wishful thinking or not, it will be interesting to see if they manage to get other publishers to sign on.

Comments

Full Refund is self righteous B.S.

[Anonymous Coward]

# Gamers shall have the right to return games that don't work with their computers for a full refund.

Corrected rewording

Gamers shall cover the publisher's costs of returns from noobs with broken computers or who can't read the minimum system requirements box.

*PC/MAC* Gamer's Bill of Rights

[azadder]

Most of these cannot pertain to console gamers. Also, I disagree with "7. Gamers shall have the right to re-download the latest versions of the games they own at any time." If the game had a subscription fee that stated part of that fee would be used to pay for storage and bandwidth for the transfer of the game, then sure. But, if someone buys a complete game on a media, that should be their copy. I definitely agree with #9. I disagree with #1: KNOW YOUR OWN COMPUTER! #4? Security flaws, possible cheating, etc -- yeah, you've got to update.

FSS

[schi0244]

so what?
This is just another gimmick to market bullshit that people do not need but think they want.

This is capitalism.
Don't swallow this bullshit.