Guitar Controller EULA - Forbidden??

[Kilyle]

Hey, I got GH3 for the PC and noticed that the game and some card with the controller both try to forbid using the controller to play games that aren't, well, made by the company. Apparently they're trying to hold a monopoly in two directions: "You can't play our games without buying our controllers" and "You can't use our controllers to play anything other than our games."

On the face of it, it's ridiculous. It's like saying "You can use this mouse only to use official Microsoft programs." Makes me wonder what they think they're going to accomplish with this move. I'm using the controller to play FoF anyway, although I'm still not sure how I feel about breaking the EULA... I wonder how many people get scared off by this.

I've already alerted the EFF to this in hopes that they can take some legal steps to make Guitar Hero's legal team stop trying to assert such asinine "rights"... and maybe publically recant and apologize, although that seems unlikely. Anyway, I wanted to get an idea of what other people thought about this and whether there are any other steps I can take to improve the situation. There's no way they should be able to set up a monopoly this way.

[dgrams2000]

I'm using the controller to play FoF anyway, although I'm still not sure how I feel about breaking the EULA... I wonder how many people get scared off by this.

I think you are the only person in the world that has given this even ANY consideration..

Nobody really cares about this.

We all agree that it sucks that Activision does not have compatability for rockband guitars in the GH games, but the GH guitars work with just about everything we have up to this point, so it is not a big issue. EULA..? heh. funny.

[yoyokid2008]

/me doesn't care.

I used my dualshock for pokemon :p.

[tibiazak]

as i recall, that EULA doesn't forbid you, it just says "we're only gonna provide support for this if it's used for our stuff". it doesn't keep you from using it for other things, it just says "we didn't design it for anything besides GH, use it for anything else at your own risk, if it destroys anything, it's your own fault."

[Gerinych]

Nobody reads the License Agreement, so don't worry about that.

[ShiekOdaSandz]

Nobody reads the License Agreement, so don't worry about that.

Not true, and it's reassuring to see others who do.

However, the company has the right to make whatever claims with its products that it wants (to a certain degree, but I don't want to get into all that legal junk, it's late). It came up with the idea, and it needs to protect itself to a certain extent (also to enable it to produce more products).

However, this thread is not about that. I just read through the pamphlet in my GHIII for PC box, and there is no EULA in there. In fact, mine says it is for the XBOX 360. Also, when I plug it in, the drivers are automatically loaded and no EULA comes up, so I don't think there is an issue with you using it with FoF. Like it was said before, if it screws up your computer, and you weren't using it "properly" the EULA just makes them not liable.

Hope that helps.