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First Sony and EA and now Microsoft as well.
Well.
I was thinking of cancelling my Xbox Live Gold membership soon before it auto-renews in January anyway, purely for monetary reasons, but hadn't entirely committed to it yet. But this, however, just gives me another reason to do so. Thanks, Microsoft! But then, I'm pretty sure the clause applies to the free Silver accounts as well. :/
It looks like these things are being challenged in at least some states, according to that Kotaku article, and I'm glad that's happening. Hopefully these clauses will get struck down soon enough. Then again, given how ponderously the legal system tends to work, it could still take years before anything comes of it. (Also, given that big corporations similar to this all but run the country/government these days, who knows if they'll actually get struck down at all. /pessimist)
Well, at any rate, at least I can stop giving Microsoft money every year for increasingly I-don't-give-a-crap-about-any-of-this-stuff service. And yeah, I was thinking of cancelling my subscription last year as well, but didn't do it yet because I'd already renewed it for another year at the limited time discount price. That doesn't apply this year, though, so I probably will actually go through with cancelling it this time. I just hate that they force you to actually call them to cancel it, and don't just offer an easy way to do it via the website or through the console itself. They certainly let you sign up through those easily enough. ¬_¬
(EDIT)
Oh wait, they actually do let you cancel automatic renewal via the website now, apparently. That's cool, I guess. Of course, I had to accept the new EULA in order to log in and do so. :/
(/EDIT)
(EDIT 2)
However, while I was able to set automatic renewal to "off", I got a so-called "error" saying what was essentially "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that." when I tried to remove my credit card info. I am going to assume for now that this is because it is tied to a still active LIVE Gold account. As such, I won't raise a stink over it yet, and will instead wait until after the 1/22/2012 date (the date the account is supposed to expire) and see if I can do it then. If I can, good enough. If I can't, though, that's when I start trying to bring the wrath o' god down on them (i.e. I actually call them and tell them to remove it). If that doesn't work... well... we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. ¬_¬
(/EDIT 2)
Well.
I was thinking of cancelling my Xbox Live Gold membership soon before it auto-renews in January anyway, purely for monetary reasons, but hadn't entirely committed to it yet. But this, however, just gives me another reason to do so. Thanks, Microsoft! But then, I'm pretty sure the clause applies to the free Silver accounts as well. :/
It looks like these things are being challenged in at least some states, according to that Kotaku article, and I'm glad that's happening. Hopefully these clauses will get struck down soon enough. Then again, given how ponderously the legal system tends to work, it could still take years before anything comes of it. (Also, given that big corporations similar to this all but run the country/government these days, who knows if they'll actually get struck down at all. /pessimist)
Well, at any rate, at least I can stop giving Microsoft money every year for increasingly I-don't-give-a-crap-about-any-of-this-stuff service. And yeah, I was thinking of cancelling my subscription last year as well, but didn't do it yet because I'd already renewed it for another year at the limited time discount price. That doesn't apply this year, though, so I probably will actually go through with cancelling it this time. I just hate that they force you to actually call them to cancel it, and don't just offer an easy way to do it via the website or through the console itself. They certainly let you sign up through those easily enough. ¬_¬
(EDIT)
Oh wait, they actually do let you cancel automatic renewal via the website now, apparently. That's cool, I guess. Of course, I had to accept the new EULA in order to log in and do so. :/
(/EDIT)
(EDIT 2)
However, while I was able to set automatic renewal to "off", I got a so-called "error" saying what was essentially "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that." when I tried to remove my credit card info. I am going to assume for now that this is because it is tied to a still active LIVE Gold account. As such, I won't raise a stink over it yet, and will instead wait until after the 1/22/2012 date (the date the account is supposed to expire) and see if I can do it then. If I can, good enough. If I can't, though, that's when I start trying to bring the wrath o' god down on them (i.e. I actually call them and tell them to remove it). If that doesn't work... well... we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. ¬_¬
(/EDIT 2)
