online indie laws

[Sanity]

i have been wondering for a while since i have started to pick up coding.
if for example i wanted to make a small text base game like the one in halls tutorials and host it online with a website and forum i have coded what legal problems might i run into?
also what if i eventually kept adding to it and decided i wanted to make a shop so you could buy virtual items or stat boosts or set up for paypal donations? what would i have to worry about?

[Xaos]

With Paypal, you must get approved with them, but after you do get approved, basically all legal stuff goes through them (unless you're not giving users what they pay for, lying, etc.). As far as other legal stuff, basically use what is yours and stuff you make unless you're given permission for commercial use by the original author/creator.

[Sanity]

With Paypal, you must get approved with them, but after you do get approved, basically all legal stuff goes through them (unless you're not giving users what they pay for, lying, etc.). As far as other legal stuff, basically use what is yours and stuff you make unless you're given permission for commercial use by the original author/creator.

so basically use all of my own code and what cruddy pixel graphics i can muster up and im good? and with paypal as long as everything works correctly and the consumer gets what they payed for its all legal?

[Xaos]

With Paypal, you must get approved with them, but after you do get approved, basically all legal stuff goes through them (unless you're not giving users what they pay for, lying, etc.). As far as other legal stuff, basically use what is yours and stuff you make unless you're given permission for commercial use by the original author/creator.

so basically use all of my own code and what cruddy pixel graphics i can muster up im good? and with paypal as long as everything works correctly and the consumer gets what they payed for its all legal?

Your own code, your own graphics, etc. unless you are granted permission by someone else to use it in a commercial setting, most of the time you're paying for it. And as far as I know, paypal is very easy and takes a lot of legal stuff off of your hands because they handle the $.

[Sanity]

alright well thanks for the info

[Jackolantern]

A potentially very sticky situation is if you take one-time payments for a permanent item in an MMO, and then you ban the player. The problem is that they bought something that is not a subscription, and you have taken it away from them. You need to have disclaimers that should probably be agreed upon any purchase that the item is only usable as long as they abide by the game rules, and that any purchases can be revoked if the account is banned. Some MUDs who allowed microtransactions (such as Achaea) did not actually ban users. Instead, they sent them into limbo, where they were free to use their items all they wanted to, but could never contact anyone again lol.