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We played Valve’s secret new shooter: Deadlock (www.theverge.com)
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It’s like Overwatch, Dota 2, and Team Fortress 2 all baked into a pie.

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[-] CTDummy@lemm.ee 62 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

And I’m not under NDA. I have signed no contracts, made no verbal agreements; I haven’t even clicked through a EULA.  This message does pop up when I launch Deadlock, but I didn’t click OK; instead, I hit the Escape key and watched it disappear.

I’m not a lawyer but I sure hope the writer of this checked with a lawyer before posting because that does not sound right.

Edit: Thank you Vodulas for pointing out this update appended to the article.

Update, August 12th: Turns out Valve was not fine with me trying Deadlock with friends; I’ve been banned from matchmaking! Oh well. Please feel free to make fun of me in the comments!

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Usually the first line in these agreements is "by using this software you agree..." And not "by pressing okay you agree..."

Though I also am not sure how that itself would hold up in court.

[-] Nilz@sopuli.xyz 12 points 3 months ago

Didn't we reach a point where EULAs are non-enforcable? Or is that just in the EU? But regardless, Valve can just ban you and good luck doing anything about it.

[-] HKayn@dormi.zone 17 points 3 months ago

Certain clauses may be unenforceable, but not the entire EULA.

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