Comment by lakomen
4 years ago
Croatian Telekom recently removed certain Cinemax channels from the premium package and are now asking for additional compensation if you'd still like to view them, in the literal middle of the 2 year binding contract.
Imagine someone changing the contract's contents one sided.
They argue they sent an SMS so it's all fine. Well I don't think so.
That leads me to another case, Daybreak Games Company and Everquest 2. They run those TLEs aka nostalgia servers every few years. In the past incarnations you could earn certain vouchers by completing "heritage quests", long winded quests which take some group effort to complete and lots of running around and whatnot. With those vouchers you could "buy" weaker version of those heritage items, on live servers (aka non-nostalgia). They have recently removed the vendors where you can buy those items from, an awful breach of trust and something you have worked hard for simply removed because they felt like it.
> in the literal middle of the 2 year binding contract.
I don't know about Croatia, but usually such a change in service allows you to break the contract on your end without any penalty (as in, end subscription right there and not pay the rest of the 2 years).
It might be hidden in the fine print though and they probably don't want you to know that option exists legally.
Depends on the contract. My cable changed ~10 years ago to stipulate ">200 channels, changing depending on licensing and availability" after first round of national regulator forcing them to allow early cancellation.
Yes, but in the meantime you risk losing your phone line for at least some days (“if you do not pay…”) and that is a risk that nobody wants to assume nowadays (for good reasons).