Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked

Re:Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google acc... by MockObject on Monday February 08, 2021 @01:04PM (#26067881)

> Because of UCC, if I give away a product for free, I have to support it through its commercial life. So if I hand out knives, for free, and they explode after 20 years, I must still support it. Even if they come with a form that users have to click that says “I will not sue PrependCo if these free knives explode.”

Why does the UCC covers free knives, but not paid Google services?

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Re:Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google acc... by Spooky23 on Monday February 08, 2021 @02:47PM (#26069194)

Because Google One, for example, is a service governed by a contract which details performance expectations.

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Re:Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google acc... by MockObject on Monday February 08, 2021 @03:05PM (#26069420)

So the UCC is only the default, which covers goods/services without their own custom contracts?

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Re:Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google acc... by Spooky23 on Monday February 08, 2021 @05:45PM (#26071320)

All products have a warranty of merchantability defined by UCC. Basically goods need to be average/expected quality.

With services it’s a little different because there is no average unless the contract is missing performance terms. If you agree to a term of performance, then that is the obligation.

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