Valve used to have a forced arbitration clause in its subscriber agreement, but that's no longer the case.
Many players — including me — got a bit of a jump scare Thursday evening while playing games on Steam in the form of a pop-up that said Valve updated the Steam Subscriber Agreement. Like most people, I clicked the checkbox, accepted the changes, and tried to go back to my game.
Recommended Videos Forced arbitration, put simply, means that if you file a complaint against a company, you’ll instead be put into arbitration — where a third party that will decide what to do with your lawsuit — instead of going to court with a judge or jury. These kinds of clauses are actually quite common in the service agreements for larger companies, and can be a problem for consumers who want to hold companies accountable for wrongdoing by halting any legal progress in its tracks.
The agreement notes that most problems should still go through Steam support, but if the complaints have to go further, they’ll “go forward in court instead of arbitration.” It’s worth mentioning that, like in most cases, Valve can still take legal action against intellectual property or copyright violations.
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