It's a "No, but..." type of thing. Don't immediately think that you're in the clear.

Edit: Yeah, I've looked into it and I'm wrong. I've misunderstood a specific law that I had been cited a few years back.

anti-gamer (the consumers in the gaming economy) and pro-corporation (the sellers in the gaming economy)

If anyone bothered to actually read the terms they'd see that they specifically state this applies only to US residents.

It's based on case law, especially a case involving Uber. US courts are likely to deem a forced arbitration clause to be coercive and non-optional (or "procedurally unconscionable" in legalese) and thus unenforceable if there is no opt-out.

But, if there is a limited window where users (or customers, or employees, etc) are able to opt-out, then the courts consider the binding or forced arbitration to be unproblematic ("they voluntarily consented to it!") and thus enforceable because you weren't "required" to accept it (even though the vast majority of people either will be unaware of the option or won't undertake the burden of opting out).

Probably easier to just leave it, but if you want to
http://backgroundchecks.org/justdeleteme/#discord

It says:

YOU CANNOT DELETE OR DEACTIVATE YOUR ACCOUNT TO OPT-OUT OF THE ARBITRATION CLAUSE

well the best way to make sure they won't get sued is to chase away all of their users before they have a reason to sue, it's genius

So much this. People gonna yell left and right, write petitions but under no circumstance they'll simply stop using software they don't like.

From my understanding it doesn't change much for you, if you are not living in US/you're not US citizen. See the reply below from TatsuyaHiro.

United States Exclusivity

As we stated above in “Why did we change it,” our motivation for this change is because of the legal climate in the United States. To protect our users outside the United States, we’ve decided to modify this clause so that it only affects users in the United States. If you are outside of the United States, this clause does not apply to you. This means users outside the United States do not need to opt out if they were wanting to.

We think that people can disagree on whether or not arbitration is good in general or whether or not the class action system is one that is beneficial; we don’t think it’s completely black and white.

You're right--if you're a corporation it's white, and if you're a consumer it's black. But it's all relative, so who can really tell whether it's black or white?

"And just in case our Official Press Release didn't convince you, we dug up the one guy who's on the fence about it so we can use him as a fig leaf! PLEASE please pls read this one section on this one Wiki page so our position looks like a reasonable disagreement and not the obvious naked trading of your rights in exchange for our not having to ever face accountability in an open court or in front of a jury or with multiple plaintiffs."

"So, in conclusion, is it good? Is it bad? Who knows? We hope by now you're thoroughly confused so that you think it's too complex and don't do anything about it!"

Weird of you to complain about buzzwords and then immediately reference a buzzword-laden damage control piece.

community feedback is incredibly important to us
thank you for voicing your opinions, we do appreciate it
we’ve changed some things based on your feedback

This is corporate PR lingo for "We know that what we're doing is not in the best interests of our users, so we're gonna spin it to look like we're doing what they want".

We want to provide some context around these changes.

Context. A soft way of saying "we're about to bullshit you".

The current legal landscape in the United States is such that class action lawsuits can be abused.
Like many other companies, we are now a target for entities who wish to abuse the class action lawsuit.

This is a paper-thin attempt to distract from the fact that they're switching from a system where they might actually be held responsible for any anti-consumer practices to a system where they're practically guaranteed to win every dispute.

We think that people can disagree on whether or not arbitration is good in general or whether or not the class action system is one that is beneficial.

This is intentional muddying of the issue. Literally no one thinks arbitration is better for the consumer.

We don’t think it’s completely black and white. In fact, we’re very interested in how Europe is approaching implementing class action lawsuits, as their approach may mitigate the issues that the United States faces with them.

More muddying. Praising Europe plays into their "hostile legal landscape in the US" narrative while costing them nothing, since they can't take away class action right in the EU anyway.

Because we don’t think it’s black and white, one of the things that we’ve implemented (which some of our competitors do not), is to allow you to opt out of this clause completely.

Translation: "We found out it's illegal to do what we're doing even in the US. But we obviously can't admit that. So let's spin it as us going above and beyond for our users, when in fact we're barely doing the minimum required by law."

We encourage you to opt out if you wish. You won’t be penalized in any way if you do so. At no point will we ever gate any features or take any action on users because they’ve opted out of arbitration.

More of the above. They're legally required to do this, but they spin it as doing their users a favor.

As we stated above in “Why did we change it,” our motivation for this change is because of the legal climate in the United States. To protect our users outside the United States, we’ve decided to modify this clause so that it only affects users in the United States.

Translation: "We found out this shit is illegal everywhere else. But again, we obviously can't admit that. So let's recycle that "legal climate" excuse from earlier. Hell, we can even claim we're doing non-americans a favor!"

That said, much of the feedback we’ve received is that our community was not aware of these changes.

How much of the feedback? I'm betting not anywhere near as much as actual complaints they can't weasel out of.

To provide more opportunity for those who wish to opt out and for those who may have overlooked the notification bar, we’ve extended our opt out period from the initial 30 days to 90 days.

This is how they appear to do something while actually doing nothing. The number of people who will opt out in the extra 60 days is negligible. The overwhelming majority won't even read the notification. Almost no one has the time to read the bazillion walls of legalese they need to "accept" in order to go about their daily lives. And companies know this. They know they can put whatever they want in their EULAs and ToSes and get away with it.

Overall, this is such a boilerplate corporate PR damage control statement that I can't imagine why you thought posting it here would somehow counter people's concerns.

GOG, Steam, Uplay - it all seems like Blonde, Brunette, Redhead to me.

In other words, you're part of the undiscerning masses that allow game companies to keep getting away with anti-consumer practices?

going along with it is the worst error you can do. with that you show them they can go further and further... because that is what you state doing nothing.
beside that this is aimed specify only to America as it states.

ty sent

and again