painhertz wrote:Terms of service are generally only needed for...well....services. this game is completely free to play and as such, ISN'T a service. Nice try though.....
Providing a free to play game is providing a service, providing these forums is providing a service, Facebook is free but you must agree to the terms of service. What rock have you been under that you don't know this? Almost every website that you will visit has a link titled Impressum, Legal, Imprint, or TOS, frequently also found under Privacy. Nearly everything found under those links is either the complete total terms of service or a sizable portion of those terms. In general, things like unauthorized account access is a violation of the terms of most online services.
There are other terms of service related indirectly to the game, such as those of the hosting company, that must also be followed by both the end users and the admins. For instance, the forum server being hosted in Germany, which has many laws thoroughly defining and prohibiting the distribution of hate speech, I'm sure that the hosting service would not be happy to see that there is frequent hate speech and screen shots of swastika vandalism in game. The fact that nothing is done about it by JnL or the mods likely leaves them open to account penalties with the host, perhaps other legal consequences. I'm not sure if the game server itself is hosted in Germany as well, but you see where I'm going.
You know, without a TOS prohibiting things that violate German law, a great idea would be to post as much hate speech and nazi imagery as you can that falls within the rules of the forum, then send evidence of it to the hosting service. I mean, DiS could take down the entirety of HnH as revenge for being nuked, or at the very least force a switch of hosting services. There is already plenty of hate speech on here towards Eastern Europeans and Asians, enough to complain for sure.