Re: Cerest: Official ruling on client.cfg?
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 5:48 pm
Actually the EULA is a legal contract between the player and Nevrax. Therefore it's not up to the CS people to interpret th EULA, it's the job of Nevrax and more specifically their lawyers. Can you imagine the havok you would have if someone who knows nothing about the law was given the power to interpret a legal contract? The CS staffs job is to enforce the EULA, not to interpret it.zumwalt wrote:Only thing I am getting out of Cerests post Raynes, is that it is an oppinion of the CSR, not actually in the EULA, I read it and I didn't see anywhere in it where it states that changing the config file is against the EULA.
Like you posted, were not modifing content of the physical game.
This is not a factual EULA vs Player mods thing, this is CSR interpretation of the EULA.
CSR's can look at the EULA and interpret it any way they desire, then turn around and use it any way they see fit, I think thats part of there job description anyway, to interpret the legal mumbo jumbo and define it for the players.
I read it, saw the same thing you did, and understood it in the same fassion, but we are not the CSR's.
Technically, according to Cerests definition for this thread, even putting the files in another location than the default install location would probably be considred a breach of the EULA, thats based on the interpretation of modifing the client.cfg file the way its described here.
Honestly though, I wouldn't worry about it to much, its functionality they gave us, so they don't want us to be able to zoom, take away the zoom.
Simple resolution.
And I'm not worried in the least bit about them doing something to me for changing the config file. I just disagree with Cerest and if they attempted to ban me for changing that file, I would want more than Cerest to give me information why.
People have this notion that EULA's and user licenses give companies the right to do what ever they want, whenever they want. They don't. They are legal contracts, as such both sides are expected to abide by the exact terms of the contract.