Lojcs

Doom 2016 forces you to accept 4 agreements before playing.

https://piefed.social/c/mildlyinfuriating/p/1632703/doom-2016-forces-you-to-accept-4-agreements-before-playing

Jan 5 at 12:43pmWeb
Show threadLembot_0006Jan 5
ID Software died long ago. It was sold to Zenimax 20 years ago.
Show threaddanc4498Jan 5
Microsoft owns it now.
Show threadundeffeinedJan 6
*Microslop
Show threadDrunJan 6

They still making one of the most exceptional games at the market. Not independent - yes. But if it’s the price to actually deliver games this quality sign me up.

So… Agree the agreement and just play. It didn’t make the game worse.

Show threadMwaJan 8
Sorry for necroposting but:
Thank God we have FreeDoom, but that’s only a WAD replacement for ultimate DOOM and DOOM II.
Especially after it was bought by Bethesda and then later Microsoft.
Show threadLembot_0006Jan 8
Look at GZDoom. And add a BrutalDoom addon. Good old Doom but modern and with Blood-tier amount of blood :)
Show threadMwaJan 8
you also have UZDOOM(for the engine,works for GZDOOM mods) and project brutality(fork of brutal doom,adds improvements and such,currently in alpha) as alternatives
while the zombies will be from Doom instead of FreeDOOM on both mods,its alr and minor issue.
Show threadSwedneckJan 25
necroposting? your comment seems to be a grand 3 days after theirs lol
Show threadMwaJan 25
Oh so there is a defined time that it gets considered necroposting
Show threadDamarusJan 5
It’s not exclusively single player, however I’m not sure if anything would prevent them from only making you accept these agreements when you select multiplayer in the menu.
Show threadAxolotlJan 5
Nothing would prevent them from making you accept this bs after you clicked the multiplayer button, i think some other games do that too
Show threadbanazirJan 5
Honestly? If you can, refund it and tell them why.
Show threadLojcsJan 5
Probably bought this as part of a bundle a long time ago. And I don’t feel like spending time pirating it while it’s already installed
Show threadiAmTheTotJan 5

For some reason I thought id was better than this.

id is owned by Bethesda, who published Doom 2016.

Show threadCaptainBasculinJan 5
Why would you need a code of conduct on a game about murdering demons in the most graphically brutal ways anyways? Something like “by accepting these rules, you agree to be friendly to demons, pet them in the back and have a picnic together.”?
Show threadAkagigaharaJan 5
It has/had a multiplayer mode. It’s presumably for that.
Show threadIWW4Jan 5

Have you seen how people behave in multiplayer games?

Having a code of conduct and making the player agree to it is so neccesary.

Show threadmercJan 5

OP says it’s a single-player game, but it looks like that’s not the case. If it is multiplayer, a code of conduct is 100% necessary. The rest seems pretty standard for something online: privacy policy, EULA and TOS.

I wish EULAs would go away, or at least be heavily restricted in what they can force you to agree with, but they’re standard.

TOS is useful to define what you can expect out of their online service.

I also wish there were privacy laws, so the Privacy Policy didn’t force you to agree to absurd terms, but here we are.

Show threadIWW4Jan 5
It was released as both a single player that had multiple player options. the multiplayer stuff is defunct now so it is single player now.
Show threadmercJan 5
They’re not going to patch the game with an update that removes the TOS, privacy policy and code of conduct now that the multiplayer elements are no longer relevant.
Show threadIWW4Jan 6
…yeah…
Show threadIWW4Jan 5

While the multi-player is now dead it wasn’t in 2016.

I see no issue with making the player agree to any of those.

Show threadLojcsJan 5

I was today years old when I learned Doom has a multiplayer.. And I doubt many people buy this for its multiplayer. They could selectively ask those who click on the multiplayer if that was their concern.

Looking at achievement stats, 32% of people finished the campaign while 12% of people won a multiplayer match. So I’m not alone in thinking of Doom as a single player game

Show threadIWW4Jan 6
it doesn’t matter what you think. It had a multplayer because gamers were screaming for a Multiplayer doom.
Show threadLojcsJan 6
Am I not allowed to be infuriated on the mildly infuriating community? I don’t care why it was put in there or if they’re going to remove it after seeing this post. I’m here to vent because I find it scammy to force this on every player (most of which didn’t even play multiplayer) despite not even listing it on the store page like they’re supposed to.
Show threadSwedneckJan 25

maybe they would remove the TOS crap if enough people shouted at them?

or do you just think we should be good cattle and shut up about bad things

Show threadIWW4Jan 25
The company is done with the game, so you can go pound sand or do whatever the ftuck you want about a non issue
Show threadRoliversJan 5
I don’t read them and just click accept.
Show threadscarabicJan 5
They’re not enforceable, binding laws anyway. It’s a bunch of corporate CYA. They want to be able to tell a judge someday that they did everything they could to inform you of their business practices and get you to agree to use their product responsibly. The company’s chance of facing a court action is much higher than a user’s chance of being held to whatever they agreed by checking a box.
Show threadRoliversJan 5
Exactly that’s why I just ignore them. I’m playing a video game not buying a house.
Show threadLojcsJan 5
I tried reading them and it didn’t even scroll to show the rest.
Show threadscarabicJan 5
Putting the “mildly” back in mildly infuriating.