You mean exactly the same as the Steam agreement you already agreed to?

Obvious? I don't think so

"Hey guys. If you put your private information on the internet, there's always the chance that someone will get it."

Yeah, that's not obvious at all.

its not that, its that its to b expected...

business is always like that.... sad but its reality

they dont want to lose money regardless of anything

its the reason i get store credit rather than a refund

Oh, sure. Let's go and change every Terms of Service ever! Row, row, fight da powah!

Oh wait, we can't. Because the ToS is the equivalent to a disclaimer and cannot be changed unless the company wants it to be. It is also used to protect the company themselves while providing a profitable service. It's simply the way the world works; don't get up in arms of such things. Simply deal with it.

Or fight a losing battle. Your choice. The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.

Edit: Dear lord... Saying that just made me realize how old I am. What happened to me? Geez.

What Replicant said.

Strange.

CE notwithstanding, how would ANYONE try to steal items? I mean, the binding's there for a reason, yes?

I would have to say if you don't agree with the terms, you can always not play the game. Seems like the most logical answer.

Did you know that most hackers are able to hack accounts simply because the person in question wasn't using a strong-enough password? Some can use code breaker programs, but that would take days, depending on how complicated your password is. And days just to compromise one random person's account? I don't think (unless they have no life) someone would not invest that much time in that just to make one person's life a living hell.

Protip: Strengthen your passwords.

the game is fun I want to play it, but I would rather play with less risk.

It seems you're being driven by paranoia rather than logic; OOO is not obligated to roll-back anything for you and your account is your responsibility - same applies to pretty much every MMORPG. However, that doesn't mean they wouldn't. You just seem to be implying that because they might not help if you get screwed over, it's best not to play at all. How about the 3rd option of doing your best not to get screwed over to begin with? That's really the only thing anyone can do.

However, I respect your position if you choose not to play due to the aforementioned wariness.

I also don't think you can compare SK's ability to reimburse items the way WoW can. WoW has had the time and support to be able to do something as advanced as rollbacks, while SK is still starting out, is essentially free-to-play, and what they could do with rollbacks now would most likely be used in other areas of the game. To attend to every person foolish enough to have their accounts compromised would not just add workload to their side (and I think I remember reading that the development team isn't even more than ten strong) but would affect the players negatively somehow gamewise.

So you do or you don't, but I don't tihnk you'll change Three Ring's policy regardless.

Blanket policies of 'we can do anything for any and no reason and you have no rights even though you paid us money' are... well, obnoxious and not legally enforceable. When money is tendered for goods and services, the company providing them has to provide them in good faith or open themselves to lawsuit... I suspect you pretty much have to be misbehaving or the company has to be going out of business for them to shut you out or they're opening themselves to a lawsuit the same way that you can't, say, sell a coffee-maker that doesn't have a heating element and point at a fine-print disclaimer that it may not work and that's you're problem. Though the laws around -goods- are much more consumer friendly than those around -services-... there are still laws! I'm not as familiar with them as I am with the laws around goods though, so I oughtn't speculate on exactly -where- the line is, just that there -is- a line, somewhere beyond arbitrarily closing accounts to lighten server load or for the fun of making the noobs scream ('course that'd also put you out of business pretty fast, law or no law.)

However! The OP's particular complaint... honestly... I have no problem with and in fact am greatly in favor of that rule, 'your account is your responsibility'. Most accounts are 'hacked' when people run some dubious software that will supposedly 'hack' the game for them and give them a ton of money, or give some other advantage. These programs are almost universally keyloggers that catch your password; in some cases they also provide the benefit claimed which helps avert suspicion for long enough to collect -more- passwords. Almost all the rest of people either gave their password to a friend, or use the same password on ten different accounts and gave the password to one of those accounts to a friend who gave it a try on SK. A smaller number have stupidly easy to guess passwords, like having the character 'Dark-Knight' and making your password 'brucewayne' or 'batman'. (and no, using 'bruc3wayn3' didn't make it secure.)

The number of people who through no fault of their own have had their computer hacked directly from the internet and their three rings game account, of all things, broken into? Vanishingly small. May have happened, your IP address could be gathered from your guild forum or teamspeak server... (Did you use the same name and password there? They didn't hack you externally from the 'net and it -was- your fault. Of course the system administrator can see your password) Anyway, the number of people that are truly 'hacked' through no fault of their own ... if not zero, much, much, much, MUCH smaller than the number of people that will get into an inebriated state, or sleep-deprived one, or just a reckless mood, and do something stupid, and then -pretend- they got hacked when they realize that giving away all their prized possessions to the noobs was a stupid idea. And it's pretty much impossible for Three Rings to tell if someone is hacked or not... the account logged in with seemingly valid credentials, that's -all- they really know.

Now, if Three Rings servers are actually hacked and things disappear due to Three Rings poor security and they don't make restitution... if it actually -happens- then we can talk about quitting in anger, but I don't think Three Rings is that kind of company.

Game companies have lots of policies in the EULA that say something to the effect of, we can do whatever we want and you can't do anything about it. They have to in order to avoid getting in trouble every time there is a patch someone doesn't like, or a server is laggy one day, or someone tries to run the game on unsupported hardware and gets upset that it won't work, or someone gives his password to a power-leveling site, who uses it to steal his account, or whatever.

That doesn't mean that the game company really will never make any restitution. If it's something flagrant and it's their fault, they probably will. But they don't want to be legally liable to have to compensate you every time you give your password to someone else, who uses it to do things to your account that you don't like.

yeah, i think most account hacked was because they try to hack the game with a software that was obviously a keylogger. i see my friend try searching google "spiral knight hack", and he ended in youtube that give link to a hack software to spiral knight. he used it immediately, and no wonder, he also lose it. trying to hack, and ended up getting hacked. obviously this was the player's own fault. the player can't charge Three Rings for the mess of it's own stupidity.

In my experience there is nothing common about having any sort of sense. Especially on the internetz.