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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.
There is no NDA to sign or anything though, only this pop up warning. Valve can't sue you for sharing details of the game but they absolutely can remove you from the play testing and/or ban you from ever playing it again for this.
Which they did. There is an update at the end of the article. Just a thoughtless move by that author
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.
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.
Certain clauses may be unenforceable, but not the entire EULA.
I’ll have to see if I’ve got a copy of an NDA I signed for play testing but that’s what I would have thought. It would be provisional on your participation not on an agreement like old school EULAs. As someone else pointed out it seems to be in closed beta or some form of early access, so maybe Valve won’t care and it won’t come back on them.
At best they ignore it. At worst, they never invite the user to test anything again. I doubt they'd issue an account ban for that. Not even sure if they can straight up ban you from the platform anyway and lock you out of your games entirely; pretty sure the bans are limited to VAC secured servers for online play and the array of community features like posting on the forums.
Lawyers hate this one simple trick
Looks like anyone who has access can invite their steam friends, so I guess it's like closed beta? Seems weird to have something soft-launch with zero announcements. The design also looks very rudimentary. Im
RIP. Taken out by Valve legal team already, everyone bail.
It's a closed alpha test claiming everything is placeholder content and could/will change while they flesh out the design, hence why they don't want you to share anything.