Valve joins EA, Sony, and others who have changed their EULA terms which prevent the ability to file a class action lawsuit against the company.
Last year Sony had changed their terms which disallowed class-action lawsuits unless they allowed it while EA followed shortly later with their own changes.
Recent changes to Steam's EULA terms by Valve now restrict access to Steam unless you agree to the new terms involving not being allowed to file class action lawsuits. Unlike Sony there is no opt-out clause nor time deadline to accept or deny the new terms.
However, the terms do allow lawsuits to be filed by individual persons and Valve will help cover the costs to bring the case to a small claims court and will pay a small amount even if they win the case. They also do require an arbitrator to be involved solely to ensure the amount being claimed is reasonable and doesn't fall into a class-action range.
The official reason by Valve was to prevent erroneous and "bad" lawsuits from being filed like with patent troll lawsuits.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/valve-...lawsuits/4308/
Valve's entire official statement:
http://store.steampowered.com/news/8523/
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Daily Recap:
1) According to Japanese magazine Famitsu, Square-Enix will debut a new Final Fantasy XIII game during the 25th Anniversary event on August 31 with the actual announcement occurring September 1st.
http://www.destructoid.com/a-new-fin...t-232336.phtml
http://andriasang.com/con23o/ffxiii_title_announcement/
2) The developers of Arma II, Bohemia Interactive Studio, announce they are working on a standalone version of the DayZ mod due to the huge sales success from the recent Steam Summer Sale event. A release date is being targeted before Christmas this year.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/dayz...ome-standalone
http://www.vg247.com/2012/07/31/dayz...nique-players/