Every time I enter the game, I need to acknowledge the EULA - even if nothing has changed. Since it is the first thing a user sees when entering the game, it simply looks unprofessional (if not lazy of the programmers).

This has come up before...I think the issue was that since anyone who has the login info can come online, and theoretically a different person could log in every time, you must click "I accept" every time.

Also, in a number of other MMO's I play they do the same thing. I don't really think it looks that bad...

Hey cfranz, I really appreciate all your tiny, useless and slightly-belligerently toned 'suggestions'. Thanks a bunch!

In return, I have a suggestion for you :D Why don't you go [Rudeness censored, even if he deserves it] yourself?

Legal reasons, as the good Doctor will reiterate. On the contrary, at least Guild Software doesn't make you scroll through the whole thing, unlike say, WoW. Purpose trumps looks here.

cfranz is right.

Please don't tell me any of us actually reads the EULA every time we log on to check if there have been changes. They could put "you are contractually obligated to support the communist party in all political matters" and none of us would know not to click "I Agree".

Just have us need to accept it once, and then each time it's updated. If you're worried about having other people use the same account, simply include a rule that only one person may use a given account.

Hmm, if I had to pick between sharing my account with others at the risk of contractually supporting the communist party in all political matters through obligation... Well, you know me comrade!

click-through eula, btw, have shoddy legal status in canada. one instance of such thing had actually been ruled in favor of a customer who proved the eula being out of grasp of the general public and it enticed users to simply click-through without understanding their rights and obligations of the "contract".

shrink-wrap license (aka, break this seal and you're screwed) are actually not legal in canada because of a similar jugement. this caused a question being relegated to the supreme court to determine weither click-through eula dont correspond to shrink-wrapped license. afaik, the debate is still open.

to remedy the situation, some vertical market apps in canada use type-in acknowledgment (aka, type-in "i agree" into a field of something like that) to get around the "too easy" problem.

so, all in all, just be content you only have to click a button. if guild software really wanted, it would be in their entire rights to be way more annoying than that.