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MESOZOIC DAWN End User License Agreement (EULA)

Last Updated: June 6, 2026
Effective Date: June 6, 2026

User Agreement Update Notice scraps: To fully adapt to the global operations of the game, further regulate the online community environment and technical security, and safeguard players' core digital asset rights, we have comprehensively revised the original agreement. This update heavily reinforces Chapter V (Game Service License and Official Server Data Regulations [adding test server data deletion disclaimer clauses]), Chapter VII (Intellectual Property, Prohibition of Decompilation and Reverse Engineering, and UGC Skin Regulations), Chapter VIII (In-Game Purchases and Virtual Commodity Transaction Restrictions), Chapter X (Player Self-Hosted Dedicated Servers and Local Network Host Regulations [deeply integrating official absolute disclaimer and one-click Token revocation penalty clauses regarding community server non-compliant naming, illegal announcements, third-party malicious traffic diversion, non-compliant sales, fraud, or abandonment]), and Chapter XIII (Governing Law, Language Conflicts, and Arbitration [adding an arbitration diversion mechanism anchored to the country/region of registration—users registered in CN are subject to the Hangzhou Arbitration Commission in Hangzhou, while users registered outside CN are subject to the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) in Hong Kong; switching the in-game language setting does not affect the jurisdiction determination]). Please read this carefully.



I. Introduction
This End User License Agreement (hereinafter referred to as "this Agreement") is entered into by and between you and NEXTINDIE Studio (hereinafter referred to as "we", "us", or "our"), and has the legal effect of a contract. Please be sure to carefully read and fully understand all clauses, especially those that exempt or limit our liability, restrict user rights, or stipulate dispute resolution and jurisdictional matters.

Please read all terms of this Agreement in detail. If you agree to this Agreement, you may continue to use the MESOZOIC DAWN game services. If you have any questions, complaints, or suggestions regarding this Agreement or the game services, you can contact us via email at team@nextindie.cn.

If you are a minor under the laws of your country/jurisdiction of residence (for example, under 18 years of age), please read this Agreement in the company of a legal guardian, and only use this game service after obtaining explicit consent from your legal guardian.

II. Definitions
2.1 This Agreement: Refers to the text of this Agreement, the Privacy Policy, and any amendments published from time to time. Once officially published, the aforementioned content forms an integral part of this Agreement. Terms not defined in this Agreement shall apply the relevant definitions in the Privacy Policy.
2.2 Game Rules: Refers to the user codes, player regulations, game announcements, prompts, and notices concerning MESOZOIC DAWN issued and amended by NEXTINDIE Studio from time to time.
2.3 MESOZOIC DAWN Game: Refers to the game "MESOZOIC DAWN" (中生代黎明) operated by NEXTINDIE Studio, including but not limited to versions based on the Steam platform and other supported PC and mobile device formats; the game also includes related software, server-side programs, local host (Host) components, and related documentation.
2.4 Game Services: Refers to the various online operations, lobby verification, Steam global server list matching, and technical support services provided to you in connection with the game.
2.5 You: Also referred to as "player" or "user", means the natural person authorized to use the game and its services. If you apply to open a dedicated community server or launch a local multiplayer session, you are also referred to as an "operator" or "host player" under this Agreement.
2.6 Game Data: Refers to various data recorded by the server generated during your use of the game, including but not limited to character data, creature data, virtual item data, behavior logs, network communication snapshots, etc.

III. Game Account
3.1 Account Registration and Real-Name Compliance
If you need to use and enjoy the game services, you must possess a game account. You may log in by creating an account using your email or via authorization from third-party platforms such as Steam (Valve Corporation). You agree to complete identity verification or real-name registration in accordance with the laws and regulations of your jurisdiction, providing true, lawful, and accurate personal information, and you must not misappropriate or use another person's identity.

3.2 Account Security
You are responsible for maintaining the security and confidentiality of your account. All activities conducted through your account will be deemed your own actions, and you shall bear full responsibility for them. Upon discovering any unauthorized account use or safety loopholes, you should notify us immediately.

3.3 Account Usage Restrictions
The ownership of the game account belongs to NEXTINDIE Studio, and you only obtain a limited right of use based on this Agreement. You shall not provide your game account to others for use in any manner, including but not limited to transferring, renting, lending, or conducting commercial buying and selling.

3.4 Account Cancellation
You may cancel your game account in accordance with the official guidelines provided. Following cancellation, all game data, characters, virtual items, and value-added services under the account will be permanently deleted and cannot be recovered in accordance with the law.

IV. Global User Information Collection, Use, and Privacy Protection
4.1 Protecting users' personal information and privacy is a fundamental principle of ours. We will collect information actively provided by you or generated due to your use of the services in accordance with the Privacy Policy, in order to provide services to you, optimize network performance, and safeguard your account security.

4.2 Global Privacy Compliance Statement:
  • European Economic Area (EEA) Users: Our processing of personal data strictly complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You enjoy the rights to access, rectify, or delete your personal data, as well as restrict or object to its processing.
  • US California Users: We comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). We promise never to transfer, buy, or sell users' personal privacy data.
  • Children's Privacy Protection (COPPA): We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from children as defined by the laws of their respective countries (such as under 13 years old in the United States, or under 14 years old in China). If a guardian discovers that a child has provided privacy data to us without consent, please contact us immediately so that we can delete it.

V. Game Service License and Official Server Data Regulations
5.1 Provided that you comply with this Agreement and relevant laws and regulations, we grant you a personal, worldwide, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, and non-exclusive limited legal license to use the MESOZOIC DAWN game software and related services. You may only use the game services on supported devices for non-commercial purposes.

5.2 Unless official written permission is obtained, you may not use game content to engage in any commercial profit-making behavior, including but not limited to commercial network broadcasting through non-officially authorized channels, recording and publishing audio/video, or organizing commercial esports tournaments.

5.3 Official Server Dynamic Character and Biological Evolutionary Data Alterations, Abnormal Losses, and Disclaimers:
You hereby acknowledge and agree that real-time game data run and generated within official public game servers (hereinafter referred to as "official servers")—including but not limited to your localized character growth status (life stage, growth percentage, evolutionary values, etc.), egg incubation and nest progress, AI companion relationship chains, AI offspring simulation data, and other real-time dynamic runtime data—do not constitute permanently retained assets.

In addition to scheduled or unscheduled server wipes (Wipe) coordinated with major game version upgrades, technical iterations, and network maintenance, the official team bears no obligation to retrieve data, resurrect characters/creatures, compensate for egg/nest progress, or provide any financial compensation or indemnity if real-time data synchronization fails, leading to the abnormal death of your localized character, abnormal reset of growth progress, loss of eggs/nests in incubation, or corruption/disappearance of AI companion or AI offspring data due to network fluctuations, physical server failures, latent software/hardware bugs, physical collision anomalies (such as clipping into terrain/abnormal fall damage evaluation), external hacker attacks on servers, or network latency.

5.4 Maintenance Commitments for Normal Technical Upgrades:
When performing routine game version updates and system upgrades, the official team will exert its best commercial efforts to maintain backward compatibility to retain and continue your character information and game progress in the official servers as much as possible. However, the official team does not make any form of absolute guarantee for such retention, nor shall it bear any form of financial compensation liability to players for network dynamic data loss resulting from technical upgrades.

5.5 Test Servers (Test Server / Beta Server) Special Wipe Non-Compensation Statement:
The independent game test servers (hereinafter referred to as "test servers") established and run by the official team belong to a special unstable environment for developers to conduct game function testing, technical iterations, bug fixes, and stress testing. You hereby explicitly acknowledge and agree that: the game baseline architecture and character dynamic data within the test servers possess an inherently high and uncontrollable level of instability. The official team reserves the right to delete, reset, or wipe all or part of the character data, dinosaur creatures, and game progress within the test servers at any time, arbitrarily, and unconditionally based on development and iteration needs. The aforementioned data deletion actions may occur without any prior notice or explanation, and the official team bears no form of notification or explanation obligation to players for test server data deletion and reset behaviors, nor will it provide any form of virtual asset, core right, or financial compensation or indemnity.

VI. General User Conduct Code
6.1 You fully understand and agree that you must be responsible for all actions under your game account, including any remarks published, content uploaded, and any consequences arising therefrom inside the game.

6.2 You must abide by local laws and regulations when using the game or game services, and must not utilize the game or game services to engage in any illegal or non-compliant acts, including but not limited to: spreading rumors, promoting terrorism or extremism, infringing upon the legitimate rights and interests of minors, disseminating obscene, pornographic, or gambling information, promoting hate speech, and conducting any form of racial, gender, or religious discrimination.

6.3 Enforcement Actions for Violations:
If a user violates the behavioral norms in this Agreement, we have the right to independently adopt one or more of the following processing measures based on the severity of the circumstances, in accordance with this Agreement and game rules, and may publish the results: warnings, muting, content resets, reduction or restriction of game rewards, clearing game character data, temporary or permanent account bans, or refusal to provide services.

6.4 AI-Generated Content Labeling:
To comply with relevant laws and regulations regarding deep synthesis and generative artificial intelligence services, if relevant AI functions exist in the game, an explicit label will be added to the interactive scene interface. Text and image content will have an "AI Generated" label appended at an appropriate position or corner.

VII. Intellectual Property, Prohibition of Decompilation and Reverse Engineering, and UGC Skin Regulations
7.1 The ownership and intellectual property rights of the MESOZOIC DAWN game and all its content (including but not limited to code, images, audio, art assets, dinosaur and creature models, dynamic link libraries, server-side programs, client executable code, network communication protocols, game mechanics, and text) belong to NEXTINDIE Studio.

7.2 Strict Technical Prohibitions: Unless specifically permitted by law or with our explicit written permission, you shall not engage in, and shall prevent others from engaging in, the following behaviors:
  • Reverse engineering, disassembling, or decompiling the game software, client, officially released dedicated server programs, and local host (Host) components, or attempting to extract, discover, or decipher the source code and underlying algorithms of the software in any other way.
  • Intercepting, copying, modifying, hooking, injecting, cracking, or creating any derivative works of data released into any terminal memory during game execution, or system communication data necessary for software operation.
  • Modifying, forging, or tampering with instructions or core network verification code during game runtime; affecting the normal operational effects of game services by writing or using unauthorized third-party software, plug-ins, cheating hacks, synchronizers, or peripheral systems.
  • Separating any part of the game (such as code segments, 3D models, sound assets, etc.) for use in other commercial or non-commercial projects, or distributing and disseminating modified game programs on non-officially authorized platforms.

7.3 Definition of UGC Skins and Technical Prerequisites:
"User-Generated Content (UGC) Skins" as referred to in this Agreement mean game creature/dinosaur skins, textures, materials, and related derivative art creations designed, produced, and uploaded by players using the development tools, art assets, and biological models provided within the MESOZOIC DAWN game, external 3D software, or through officially authorized third-party workshops (such as Steam Workshop), communities, or designated channels.

7.4 UGC Intellectual Property Ownership and Global Licensing Agreement:
1. Intellectual Property Restrictions on Derivative Works: You hereby acknowledge and agree that because UGC skins contain or deeply rely upon the original biological models, copyrighted proprietary art assets, and underlying game code of MESOZOIC DAWN, such UGC skins legally constitute "derivative works" of the original game work. The intellectual property rights contained therein that belong to the original game remain owned by NEXTINDIE Studio.
2. Permanent, Cross-Platform, Royalty-Free License: When you publicly publish, upload, display, or allow others to download UGC skins you produced in-game, on the Steam Workshop, or on any associated community, it shall be deemed that you automatically, unconditionally, and irrevocably grant NEXTINDIE Studio a worldwide, permanent, royalty-free, non-exclusive, and fully sublicensable legal license.
3. Scope of Official Usage Rights: The official team has the right, without notifying the creator and without paying any technical remuneration, royalties, or revenue share, to freely use, copy, modify, adapt, publish, translate, distribute, network broadcast, and list your UGC skins in the global verification network for all platform players for purposes of operations, promotion, distribution, global lobby display, version packaging, technical optimization, or commercialization.

7.5 Creator's Absolute Compliance Commitment:
Any player (creator) who produces and uploads UGC skins must make the following legally binding commitments:
  • Pure Originality: Guarantee that the uploaded skin content is entirely created by the individual independently, or that lawful, comprehensive, and re-licensable written authorization has been obtained from the original author.
  • Strict Prohibition of Third-Party Infringement: It is strictly prohibited to plagiarize, imitate, or steal the copyrighted assets, registered trademarks, trade dress, or patents of any third-party games, cinematic works, anime, or real-world commercial brands (such as well-known brand logos) in the skin design.
  • Strict Prohibition of Illegal or Offensive Content: Skins must not contain any obscene, pornographic, politically sensitive, religiously discriminatory, extremist, bloody, violent, insulting content, or content that infringes upon the privacy or reputation rights of others.

7.6 Official Absolute Platform Disclaimer and Infringement Takedown/Ban Policy:
1. Neutral Storage and No Substantive Review Obligation: NEXTINDIE Studio only provides neutral technical storage, lobby distribution, and platform display services for UGC skins independently uploaded and shared by players. The official team does not assume any prior, active, or substantive infringement review obligation for massive amounts of user-generated content. Any creator who infringes upon the legitimate rights and interests of a third party due to their uploaded skins shall personally bear full legal liability for all resulting lawsuits, financial compensation, administrative fines, attorney fees, and reputational losses, which have nothing to do with NEXTINDIE Studio. If the official team suffers losses due to a certain UGC skin infringing third-party copyrights, the involved creator shall fully compensate the official team.
2. Notice and Takedown (Take-Down Notice): Once the official team receives a valid infringement notice from a third party (such as a complaint complying with DMCA standards) or confirms that a certain UGC skin is suspected of infringement, the official team has the right to immediately execute unconditional removal, takedown, destruction, or blacklisting deletion operations on the skin within the global lobby verification system without prior notice and without the creator's consent. When a skin is taken down due to copyright infringement, the official team will directly deduct the right to use the infringing skin from ordinary players' accounts and perform an equivalent virtual currency return process to affected ordinary players in accordance with Article 8.6 of this Agreement. However, for the source creator who uploaded the infringing skin, the official team will deduct all their in-game earnings without any form of compensation, and reserves the right to freeze their workshop, revoke self-built server Tokens, and even permanently ban their account.

VIII. In-Game Purchases and Virtual Commodity Transaction Restrictions
8.1 Purchase Finality: Virtual commodities in the game (including game tokens, skins, value-added props, etc.) are a type of electromagnetic record-based virtual value-added service provided by us. All in-game purchase behaviors are final transactions once completed and are irreversible. Unless strictly required by the mandatory laws of your jurisdiction (or conforming to specific regulations of Steam's official refund policy), no refunds will be granted under any circumstances. Virtual commodities have no cash value in reality and cannot be exchanged for real currency under any circumstances.

8.2 Official System Restrictions and De-fiatization: This game allows players to trade skins and other designated virtual items among themselves, but transactions must and can only be completed through the built-in official transaction system or the officially designated Steam Community Market. It is strictly prohibited for any player to use real currency (fiat currency) or non-official transaction platforms outside the game to buy and sell in-game characters, dinosaurs, props, or accounts for profit private-side. Once verified, the official team has the right to directly ban the accounts involved and clear the relevant items. We bear no responsibility for any economic disputes or fraudulent consequences arising from players' private transactions.

8.3 Permanent Retention of In-Game Purchases and Account Core Rights:
Unlike dynamic localized data in official servers which will be reset due to version restructuring, your basic game account information, paid characters purchased and unlocked using real currency/Steam Wallet (such as specific creature expansion packs), in-game purchased items, virtual currency obtained through top-ups, and permanent skin assets constitute core rights that are permanently retained. Such paid assets and core rights will never be cleared when official servers undergo major version upgrades, incompatible wipes, or resets.

8.4 Sensitive Data Isolation and Storage Architecture Explanation:
To protect users' global property security and privacy compliance, the official team adopts a data isolation architecture. The aforementioned player account information, paid character ownership, paid props, and currency assets are uniformly and securely stored within an independent global master central gateway and third-party distribution platforms (such as the Steam account system). Specific multiplayer game server ends do not store nor do they have the authority to modify such sensitive data. When any form of server wipe or reset occurs on official servers, you only need to log back into your account to seamlessly recall and activate all your purchased paid characters and prop assets within the brand-new server local environment.

8.5 Abnormal Refunds, Malicious Chargebacks, and Account Restriction Penalties:
1. Definition of Non-Official Channels and Malicious Refunds: You hereby acknowledge and agree that all in-game top-ups and purchases must be completed through officially built-in channels or the official Steam built-in store. Any behavior that utilizes platform loopholes, uses unauthorized third-party top-up agencies, or maliciously initiates abnormal refund applications, chargebacks, or transaction reversals to card issuers, payment channels, or the Steam platform after obtaining in-game virtual commodities shall be deemed a severe fraudulent violation of this Agreement.
2. Multi-Tiered Technical Penalty Means: Once the master system detects that your account has records of the aforementioned malicious refunds or fraudulent chargebacks, we have the right to directly adopt one or more of the following restriction and penalty measures against the account without any prior notice:
  • Asset Deduction and Negative Wallet: Directly deduct virtual currency, skins, specific character data, or game assets corresponding to the refund under that account; if that part of the assets has already been consumed, the official team has the right to set its corresponding virtual currency balance to a negative value.
  • Purchase Prohibition and Top-Up Restrictions: Before the virtual currency balance returns to positive, or before the non-compliant behavior is corrected, the system will automatically trigger a "Top-Up Function Lock" and a "Store Purchase Ban Lock" on the account, permanently restricting or stripping any purchase, transaction, and top-up permissions of the account in-game.
  • Full Platform Ban and Hardware Tracking Ban: For accounts with severe circumstances, large amounts involved, or repetitive malicious refunds, the official team will execute a Steam platform or full-platform permanent account ban penalty (Permanent Account Ban), and reserves the absolute freedom to blacklist its hardware identification code (HWID) and IP address, stripping its right to register new accounts and access game services in the future.
3. Pursuit of Legal Liability: The official team will not provide any form of compensation for account bans caused by malicious refunds. The official team reserves the right to recover handling fee losses, fines, or legal litigation expenses caused to the official team by malicious refunds from non-compliant users in accordance with the law.

8.6 Rework, Takedown, and Compensation Mechanisms for UGC Skins:
1. Usage License Attributes: Skins, virtual props, and other items within the MESOZOIC DAWN game (including UGC skin assets contributed by players or the community) all belong to part of the overall electromagnetic records of the game. What you obtain through purchase, exchange, crate opening, etc., is only a limited, non-exclusive, revocable license to use that specific asset during game runtime, rather than any ownership or intellectual property rights of that asset.
2. Rework and Takedown Disclaimer: To maintain the overall technical compatibility, visual art iteration, numerical balance, and network optimization of the game, or due to the expiration of copyright cooperation, or requirements of relevant laws, regulations, and regulatory policies, the official team has the right to perform technical reworks, modify appearances, adjust attributes, or even permanently take down any UGC skins or virtual props within the game from the game store, Steam Workshop, or global verification network.
3. Equivalent Virtual Currency Return Commitment: When the aforementioned skin rework or permanent takedown due to official reasons occurs, the official team will not refund cash or Steam Wallet balances to players under any circumstances. As an alternative protection, the official team promises to formulate a transparent community compensation plan: when a relevant skin is completely taken down, deleted, or undergoes major changes, the system will, within the scope of technical feasibility, automatically return equivalent in-game virtual currency (such as game tokens or points) actually consumed when the skin was purchased/unlocked to the affected player's account. Players can use this returned virtual currency to freely exchange for other equivalent skins, props, or functions within the game store. The aforementioned virtual currency return shall be deemed as the official team having fully fulfilled all contractual and technical compensation obligations, and players may not use this as a reason to initiate any form of refund litigation, arbitration, or claim against the official team or third-party distribution platforms.

IX. Incentivized Advertising Policy
9.1 MESOZOIC DAWN provides optional incentivized advertising services. After watching advertisements, you can obtain specific items or rewards in the game. Watching incentivized advertisements is completely voluntary and optional; not watching advertisements will not affect your normal gaming experience or the integrity of core game functions.

9.2 Limitation of Liability: Advertisements displayed in the game are all provided by third-party advertising service providers (such as YANDEX, IRONSOURCE LEVELPLAY, etc.). We strive to ensure that advertising content is suitable for the game audience, but we do not assume any warranty liability for the absolute accuracy of third-party advertisements, the content itself, or any products or services promoted by them.

X. Player Self-Hosted Dedicated Servers and Local Network Host (Host) Regulations
To safeguard the gaming experience of MESOZOIC DAWN global players across various distributed communities, this game allows players to independently open and run multiplayer servers. Behind-the-scenes server operators (hereinafter referred to as "operators") or players who turn on local hosts (hereinafter referred to as "host players") must strictly abide by the following multi-regulatory, red-line constraints, and absolute disclaimer frameworks:

10.1 Classification of Scope of Application
  • Class A: Dedicated Community Servers (TOKEN Authorization): Servers set up by operators on independent physical servers or cloud servers and open to the public, which are displayed publicly to global players in the built-in global community server list of the game.
  • Class B: Local Self-Built Hosts (HOST/LAN Mode): Local lobbies opened by host players utilizing the Host function built into the game client. Although this mode is only displayed in the "LAN Server List", as long as you utilize any physical LAN or virtual LAN tools (including but not limited to various VPN networks, peer-to-peer matchmaking tools, or gaming platform clients) to open it to other players, you are deemed an "operator" under this Agreement and must unconditionally abide by all anti-cheat and de-commercialization red lines in this section.

10.2 IP and TOKEN Strong Binding Mechanism for Dedicated Community Servers
1. Email Application Process: Any user wishing to host and operate a Class A dedicated community server must submit a server hosting application to the official designated email team@nextindie.cn, and explicitly provide the unique fixed public IP address intended for deployment in the application email.
2. Underlying Strong Verification: After official approval, a unique "Authorized TOKEN" will be issued to that server. This TOKEN is validated through a dual-binding logic with the server IP address provided by the operator in the official master database. During network handshakes in the game lobby list, if the actual running IP of the server does not match the IP record bound to the TOKEN, the system will directly intercept verification, and the server will fail to display in the built-in list.
3. Security and Confidentiality: The authorized TOKEN is the credential for the operator to maintain independence and must not be transferred, rented, or leaked to third parties in any form. Non-compliant consequences caused by improper configuration management of TOKENs or IPs shall be fully borne by the applicant.
4. Action as Consent: Your actions of sending a server hosting application email to the official team, providing an IP address, or clicking "Open Host / LAN Matchmaking" in the client constitute your digital signature and absolute acceptance of all legal terms in this chapter and this Agreement.

10.3 Absolute De-commercialization Red Lines and Boundaries of Non-Compliant Profiteering
Whether for dedicated community servers (Class A) or local host LAN modes (Class B), operators/host players must ensure their operational behaviors maintain a purely non-profit nature. It is strictly prohibited for operators/host players to implement any of the following commercialized profiteering violations that severely affect game balance and endanger community safety:
  • Basic Principle of Only Allowing Gratuitous Donations: Operators are only permitted to accept voluntary, gratuitous donations (sponsorships) made by players out of love for this game community without any quid pro quo returns. This sponsorship funding should and can only be used to offset the direct costs of physical hosting such as server hardware leasing, network bandwidth, and DDoS protection.
  • Strict Prohibition of Selling Balancing Virtual Property: It is strictly prohibited to directly, indirectly, or covertly sell any virtual characters, dinosaur/creature data, character levels, character attribute buffs, weapons/equipment, construction materials, in-game tokens, or any virtual props that possess in-game functionality or affect numerical balance for a price.
  • Strict Prohibition of Selling Privileges and Privilege Exchanges: It is strictly prohibited to directly or indirectly sell special administrative permissions such as Administrator (Admin/OP) or special console command usage rights within the server. It is forbidden to use game virtual items, specific character data, or any game or group chat management privileges as an exchange consideration for sponsorship/purchase behaviors under any names such as "sponsorship raffles", "sponsorship gift milestones", "recharge customized characters/creatures", or "paid thresholds/group entry fees to enter the server".
  • Prohibition of Gambling Mechanisms: It is strictly prohibited to set up blind boxes, lucky draws, wheels, or top-up rebate mechanisms with gambling characteristics targeting game virtual materials within community servers or any of their associated communities.

    10.4 Server Naming, Announcement Content Compliance, and Anti-Third-Party Malicious Traffic Diversion Red Lines
    All operators of dedicated community servers (Class A) and host players of local self-built hosts (Class B), when performing server configuration and daily operations, must also unconditionally abide by the following content compliance red lines:
    1. Strict Prohibition of Setting Illegal, Non-compliant, and Sensitive Content: Operators must not set, publish, or disseminate any text, symbols, sensitive words, or external links that violate local laws and regulations, are obscene or vulgar, politically sensitive, religiously discriminatory, promote hate speech, or infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of third parties in the Server Name, server lobby description, in-game scrolling announcements, welcome messages (MOTD), and any external communities associated with the official verification network (such as multiplayer notification groups, Discord channels, QQ groups, etc.).
    2. Strict Prohibition of Third-Party Malicious Traffic Diversion and Non-compliant Promotion: The community server list, as a neutral technical indexing service provided by the official team, is strictly prohibited from being used as any unauthorized commercial profit-making or external traffic redirection tool. It is strictly prohibited to publish any unauthorized commercial advertisements, game proxy top-ups, or grey industry information using server names or announcement systems; it is strictly prohibited to implement any form of malicious traffic diversion behaviors such as "promotional redirection to other game products", "commercial promotion of external competing products", or "diverting traffic to non-officially authorized platforms" that divide the official player base or damage the overall operational interests of MESOZOIC DAWN.
    3. Immediate Non-compliant Takedown and TOKEN Revocation: For community servers that implement the aforementioned non-compliant naming and traffic diversion behaviors, the official team has the right, without any prior notice and without making any explanation, to directly remote-revoke and invalidate the authorized TOKEN of the server through the global lobby system. The public IP address bound to that server will be permanently blacklisted by the official team, and its display and hosting permissions in the global community server list will be permanently revoked immediately.

    10.5 Tiered Enforcement Penalties, One-Click Revocation of Authorization, and Hacker/Fraud Technical Sanctions
    Once we confirm through irregular random checks, technical audits, or accepting player reports that you have violated any technical, content compliance, or commercialization red lines in this chapter, the official team will adopt the following multi-tiered penalty technical means based on the severity of the circumstances:
    1. Severe Violation Handling (Immediate Revocation and Permanent Takedown): For community servers that implement non-compliant traffic diversion, illegal naming as mentioned in Article 10.4 above, as well as privately selling in-game virtual property or selling Admin permissions that disrupt game balance and operational order, the official team has the right, without any prior notice or explanation, to directly revoke and invalidate your authorized TOKEN through the global lobby system and permanently blacklist the IP address bound to the server. Your server will immediately have its hosting permissions permanently revoked, taken down, and restricted from display in the global community server list.
    2. Hacker Attacks and Severe Fraudulent Behaviors (Full Platform Tracking Ban): If an operator maliciously tampers with programs or implements hacker attacks during server hosting, or implements scams that severely endanger players' property safety such as involving large amounts, absconding with funds, or fake top-ups, the official team will adopt the highest-level penalty: directly execute a permanent account ban penalty (Permanent Account Ban) on the operator's/host player's official personal game account or associated Steam account within the game services, comprehensively freeze their personal digital assets, and blacklist their hardware identification code (HWID) and IP address globally, stripping their right to register new accounts and access game services in the future.
    3. Official Assistance in Rights Protection and Reporting of Suspected Crimes: For operators suspected of severe fraud, illegal fundraising, cyber-scams, or other violations of national laws and regulations, the official team, after receiving feedback from victimized players, will actively and vigorously assist players in complaining and protecting rights to relevant third-party payment platforms depending on the situation, and will, when judicial and public security organs intervene to investigate, cooperate in accordance with the law and comprehensively provide necessary underlying technical data such as the real-name registration information and IP network logs of the involved operators to assist public security organs in filing cases for investigation.

    10.6 Community Server Official Absolute Disclaimer and Neutral Isolation Statement
    1. Network and Operational Independence: All dedicated community servers (Class A) and self-built local host/virtual LAN multiplayer sessions (Class B) set up, hosted, and run by players or third parties (including but not limited to players and organizations in various global jurisdictions) constitute independent distributed network nodes separate from the official team. The official team only performs underlying technical and content maintenance and protection for official public servers (official servers) deployed and daily-maintained by the official team itself.
    2. Complete Disclaimer for Service Offline and Server Wipe Data: If a community server is forced down, restricted from display, or has its TOKEN revoked by the official team due to the operator violating the red lines of this Agreement, or if a community server encounters service offline, data loss, local server wipes (Wipe), or cessation of operations due to the operator's own technical errors, hardware failures, or active shutdown/abandonment, all resulting financial losses and data liabilities shall be independently borne by that community server operator, completely unrelated to the official team. The official team assumes no obligation to notify ordinary players, retrieve data, or provide financial compensation due to the offline status or wiping of any community servers.
    3. Complete Isolation of Player Purchases and Financial Behaviors: Any behavior of players purchasing, sponsoring, or exchanging any services within community servers (non-official server environments) or their associated communities constitutes a personal voluntary civil behavior between the players and that community server operator. All sponsorship fee losses, clearing of "recharged assets" due to server shutdowns, illegal transaction scams, economic disputes, etc., generated by the aforementioned actions have nothing to do with the official team, and the official team bears no form of joint and several, advance payment, intermediary guarantee, or incidental compensation liability in law. The presentation of community servers by the official team in the lobby list constitutes merely a neutral technical data indexing service and does not constitute any form of endorsement, recognition, or joint guarantee.

    XI. Service Availability and Global Disclaimer
    11.1 NEXTINDIE Studio is dedicated to providing stable, secure, and reliable game services, but we do not make any express or implied warranties regarding the following matters within the maximum extent permitted by law:
    • Game services will be absolutely uninterrupted, timely, secure, or free from any software program errors.
    • The game will satisfy all your subjective expectations regarding game mechanics and numerical balance.
    • All server list functions within the game will remain completely available at all times.

    11.2 Limitation of Liability:
    We do not bear compensation liability for any game interruptions, character data rollbacks, losses, or economic losses caused by global backbone network failures, force majeure, equipment incompatibility, hacker attacks, or system updates.

    We specially declare: since this game belongs to a pure biological simulation and survival evolution genre, its underlying structure involves extremely complex life state evaluations, real-time interactions of large amounts of AI companion/offspring behavior trees, high-frequency physical collision calculations, and other mechanisms. The official team does not make any "absolutely error-free" commercial or technical warranties regarding various program defects, bugs, abnormal damage/death value evaluations, or data latency synchronization that may appear during game operations. Any resetting of character growth progress, abnormal death of creatures, destruction of eggs or nests, and breakage of AI companion/offspring relationship chains caused to players by the aforementioned technical defects constitute natural operational risks borne by the specific genre and simulated survival mechanics of this game, and the official team assumes no direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive legal liability for such localized technical losses within single servers.

    We also do not bear any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive legal liability for the content stability, data compliance, information security, player remark compliance, losses from Token takedowns/revocations due to non-compliant naming or traffic diversion, or any financial disputes generated by players purchasing services within any community servers independently established by third parties or players (including all dedicated community servers and Host virtual LAN hosts in mainland China and overseas regions).

    XII. Service Modification, Restriction, and Termination
    12.1 NEXTINDIE Studio reserves the right to modify, update, or terminate partial or entire content and core functions of the game at any time when necessary based on the global game operational ecosystem development and changes in relevant laws and regulations.

    12.2 If a user violates any core terms of this Agreement (especially involving reverse engineering hacker attacks, cheat hack production, malicious refunds/chargebacks, private cash transactions, community server illegal commercialization monetization, community server setting up illegal/non-compliant/traffic diversion content, or community server severe fraud red lines), we have the right to immediately terminate the limited service license under this Agreement, cease providing game services to you, reclaim and revoke authorized Tokens, and need not bear any form of compensation.

    XIII. Governing Law, Language Conflicts, and Arbitration

    13.1 Language Versions and Supreme Interpretation Rule: This Agreement is drafted and published in Simplified Chinese and other language versions. If there are any ambiguities, conflicts, or inconsistencies in understanding between the various language versions, the content of the Simplified Chinese version shall always serve as the final accurate text and the supreme criterion for interpretation.

    13.2 Governing Law:
    • Where the Country/Region of Registration is the Mainland of the People's Republic of China: The conclusion, validity, interpretation, performance, and dispute resolution of this Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the Mainland of the People's Republic of China, without regard to its conflict of laws principles.
    • Where the Country/Region of Registration is Outside the Mainland of the People's Republic of China: The conclusion, validity, interpretation, performance, and dispute resolution of this Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, without regard to its conflict of laws principles.

    13.3 Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Jurisdiction:
    Any dispute, controversy, claim, or demand arising out of or relating to this Agreement (including any questions regarding its formation, existence, validity, interpretation, breach, or termination) shall first be attempted to be resolved through friendly negotiation between both parties. If negotiation fails to resolve the dispute within thirty (30) days from the date the dispute occurs, it shall be handled according to the following paths based on the country/region corresponding to the system language acquired by the program at your time of registration:

    • For Users Whose Country/Region of Registration is the Mainland of the People's Republic of China: Either party shall and can only submit the dispute to the Hangzhou Arbitration Commission for arbitration in Hangzhou, China, in accordance with its arbitration rules in effect at the time of submitting the arbitration application. The arbitral award shall be final and legally binding on both parties. The number of arbitrators shall be one (1), and the arbitration proceedings shall be conducted in Chinese. The award made by the arbitral tribunal is final and legally binding on both parties.
    • For Users Whose Country/Region of Registration is Outside the Mainland of the People's Republic of China: Either party shall and can only submit the dispute to the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) for arbitration in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China, in accordance with the arbitration rules of the HKIAC in effect at the time of submission. The arbitral award shall be final and legally binding on both parties. The number of arbitrators shall be one (1), and the arbitration proceedings shall be conducted in English. The award made by the arbitral tribunal is final and legally binding on both parties.

    13.4 Irrevocable Jurisdictional Anchor: Your action of switching the interface display language within the game client (for example, from Simplified Chinese to English, Traditional Chinese, or other languages, or vice versa) constitutes purely a user experience preference setting. Under no circumstances does it constitute a modification, denial, or revocation of your country/region information acquired by the program at registration, nor does it lead to a change or re-determination of the dispute resolution path (including arbitration venue, arbitration institution, applicable law, and jurisdiction). Both parties confirm that the dispute resolution path shall use the country/region information corresponding to the system language acquired by the program at the time of your account registration as the sole, final, and unalterable basis for determination post-facto unilaterally.

    XIV. International Copyright Infringement (DMCA Notice) and Miscellaneous
    14.1 Copyright Protection and Takedown (DMCA): We respect and protect all intellectual property rights. If you are an overseas copyright owner and believe that any user-generated content (UGC) or content of community dedicated servers in this game infringes upon your legitimate copyrights, you can send a written copyright notice to our designated email according to the requirements of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of the United States, providing the infringing links, proof of copyright ownership, and your contact information. We will promptly take down the suspected infringing content after verification.

    14.2 Severability of Clauses: If any clause in this Agreement is determined to be partially or entirely invalid or unenforceable for any reason, such invalid part shall not affect the legal validity of other clauses of this Agreement, and other clauses shall remain completely binding on both parties.

    XV. Third-Party Services and License Agreements
    When providing global network lobby maintenance, data analysis, and incentivized advertising distribution, the MESOZOIC DAWN game integrates components from the following third-party service providers. While enjoying corresponding services, you must, in addition to complying with this Agreement, agree to and abide by their respective terms of service and privacy licenses: