Terms of Service
These terms cover the FACTION5 website and the FACTION5 game, including Alpha test builds. By using either, you agree to them.
FACTION5 is made by Feathery Games ("we", "us"). You can reach us through featherygames.com/contact.
1. Who can use FACTION5
Anyone can visit the website. To sign up for the Alpha or play the game you must be at least 18 years old and allowed to use your Meta Quest account under Meta's own rules. If the law where you live requires an older age to agree to these terms, that age applies.
2. The website
The website introduces FACTION5. The news broadcast on its television is fiction made for the game: its anchors, leaders, factions and events are invented, and any resemblance to real people or events is a coincidence. We may change or remove anything on the website at any time.
3. Alpha sign-up
- Signing up adds you to our Alpha list. It does not guarantee an invitation, a time slot or continued access.
- When you sign up you confirm that you understand the Alpha is early, unfinished test software.
- We use your email to send Alpha invitations and FACTION5 development news, as described in the Privacy Policy.
- You can leave the list at any time by replying to one of our emails or contacting us through featherygames.com/contact.
4. The game and Alpha builds
FACTION5 is unfinished. Alpha builds are test software: they can crash, lose progress, change without notice or stop working, and servers may be offline. We may reset player data, end a test or withdraw a build at any time.
We give you a personal, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and play the builds we make available to you, for your own non-commercial use. You may not:
- share, sell or redistribute builds, invitations or access;
- cheat, use modified clients, automate play, or attack, overload or disrupt our servers or other players' connections;
- reverse engineer or extract the game, except where the law allows it despite this restriction;
- deliberately exploit bugs. Please report them instead.
If we ever offer paid items or features, separate terms will apply and we will show them before any purchase.
Streaming and sharing
You're welcome to stream, record, screenshot and talk about the Alpha. Please make it clear that it is an early Alpha build, for example in your title or description, so viewers know it is unfinished. Sharing builds, invitations or access is still not allowed. If we ever ask testers to keep a specific feature or test private, we will say so clearly.
5. Health and safety in VR
FACTION5 is a combat game played in virtual reality. Before you play, read the health and safety warnings that came with your headset.
- Clear a safe play area. You will move, turn and reach quickly.
- Take regular breaks. Stop at once if you feel dizzy, sick, disoriented or uncomfortable, or if your eyes or body hurt.
- Some people may have seizures or blackouts triggered by flashing lights. If you or your family have a history of these, ask a doctor before playing.
- The game contains realistic weapons and combat. It is a game; never copy its actions with real weapons.
6. How to behave
Play hard, but treat other players with respect. You may not harass, threaten, impersonate or abuse anyone, use hate speech, or share sexual or illegal content, including in voice chat and player names. We may warn, mute, remove or ban players who break these rules, and we may report illegal content to the authorities.
7. Your voice, names and feedback
You are responsible for what you say and the names you choose. You let us transmit and display them to other players so the game works. If you send us feedback, ideas or bug reports, you let us use them to improve FACTION5 without paying you or giving you credit.
8. Our content
The game, the website, the FACTION5 name and logo, and all art, music, video and code belong to Feathery Games or our licensors. These terms do not give you any rights to them except to play and enjoy FACTION5 as described here.
9. Other services
You get the game through Meta's platform and may talk with us through services such as Discord. Their own terms and policies also apply when you use them, and we are not responsible for them.
10. Disclaimers
FACTION5, especially in Alpha, is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, to the fullest extent the law allows. We don't promise that it will be error-free, secure or always available.
11. Limits on our liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential losses, or for lost data, progress or profits. Our total liability for any claim about FACTION5 is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim and US$50. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, such as for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.
12. Ending access
You can stop using FACTION5 at any time. We may suspend or end your access if you break these terms or if we stop running the test or the game. Sections 7 to 13 continue to apply afterwards.
13. Disputes
If you are a consumer, you keep any rights the laws of your own country give you that cannot be waived by contract. Please contact us first. Most problems can be solved quickly.
14. Changes
We may update these terms as FACTION5 develops. We will change the date at the top. If a change is significant and you are on our Alpha list, we will tell you by email. If you keep using FACTION5 after a change, the new terms apply.
Contact
Feathery Games · featherygames.com/contact