I think a lot of people were expecting this. I don’t know what their lawyers were thinking, $50k absolutely is absolutely nothing to Disney.
Whereas, I’ve seen this story everywhere and no one is defending Disney. This makes them look horrible. You clicked “I accept”, so now you can’t sue them for an in-person issue at one of their parks? What are you talking about?? I realize they might want to set a precedent, but I don’t think any judge would ignore public sentiment about this and side with Disney. So now they look awful for absolutely no gain…
Beyond making them look horrible, they were marching towards a court ruling against the forced arbitration clause.
Once there is a precedent for the clause being unenforceable, the clause ceases to be a deterrent to legal action - every claim would be litigated at the very least to settle the question of whether arbitration is required in a specific case.
Public shaming worked on this one, but how many other terrible takes by the corporation are unspoken? Many.
They should rule on it anyway, and strike these arbitration clauses from the face of the earth. That’s why Disney is backing down, not because of “oh, the humanity”.
Too late.
I’m sure, I’m not the only one who definitely isn’t going to try out Disney+ anytime soon.
After I had to seperate my Netflix account from my nieces and my sister, I actually planed to switch to Disney for a while to see what they offer, but not anymore.
It’s not too late for the actual reason they withdrew: They’re not at risk for forced arbitration to be challenged in court.
I wonder what becomes of the Hulu people being merged into Disney? Do they auto sign the new terms by simply continuing service?
In such cases you normally get an upated terms of service notification.
If you are in the EU new regulations now demand, that the costumer actively has to agree with updated terms. Otherwise its normally just a notification with a small print ->if you don’t object you automatically agree.
When you see [Everyone Hated That] pop up after your last choice, and you panic and try to load a previous save, but the game remembers what you already did.
hmm, that would be an interesting feature for a RPG game. Are there any games that have that feature? Like some anti savescumming?
Pathologic 2. When you die it applies the consequences to all of your saves all you can’t go back and change it
Oh, that’s a good point, I didn’t think of it this way. I felt that Pathologic 2 handled it pretty well, because the first time I died, I was confused at how it framed the consequences (instead of a straightforward “you died! Load earlier save?”, you get a conversation with an NPC that explains some of the consequences, albeit somewhat obtusely). The actual consequences of death felt surprisingly forgiving, given all I’ve heard about Pathologic (especially the first few deaths).
The original animal crossing had something like that. If you turned off the console without saving, a mole named Resetti or something like that would rant at you about how you aren’t supposed to do that. The rant would get longer the more times you turned off the console without saving.
I agree. A little fourth wall breaking even to go with it. “You thought you could just reload? Sorry mate, some things can’t be so easily undone.”
