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BananasWithGuns · Sep 17, 2016

Good riddance.

hesido · Sep 17, 2016

So the smear campaign started by Jim Sterling against these wonderful devs has reached its goal.

Kidding. But that's what they are probably thinking.

KingdomHeartsFan · Sep 17, 2016

That's what they get.

SchrodingerC · Sep 17, 2016

I await the next step in the DH Saga.

ElRenoRaven · Sep 17, 2016

duckroll said:
Wait, Digital Homicide is a publisher? What did they do? I read the thread title and thought Steam started some policy to ban games where you murder people in games and I was like "uhhh... wait a minute" lol.

Indie dev. Pair of brothers. They churn out the same exact game with a different skin over and over using assets they buy. Usually they're buggy shit too. Sometimes they've even released games days apart. Jim Sterling covered a couple of their games then they went batshit crazy and started a war with him that turned into a lawsuit.

timetokill · Sep 17, 2016

duckroll said:
Wait, Digital Homicide is a publisher? What did they do? I read the thread title and thought Steam started some policy to ban games where you murder people in games and I was like "uhhh... wait a minute" lol.

They started suing Steam users who left negative reviews

joecanada · Sep 17, 2016

Hey maybe a hype train could go with this thread. Call it the litigation line and everyone in the thread gets sued by these guys.

duckroll · Sep 17, 2016

PsychoRaven said:
Indie dev. Pair of brothers. They churn out the same exact game with a different skin over and over using assets they buy. Usually they're buggy shit too. Sometimes they've even released games days apart. Jim Sterling covered a couple of their games then they went batshit crazy and started a war with him that turned into a lawsuit.

timetokill said:
They started suing Steam users who left negative reviews

L O L.

Good riddance.

Nokterian · Sep 17, 2016

Pakoe · Sep 17, 2016

Loool, wow good one.

Deaf Spacker · Sep 17, 2016

Hahahaha.

ctfg23 · Sep 17, 2016

Good. DH can fuck off.

SmartWaffles · Sep 17, 2016

Good fucking riddance I hope these people at least the higher ups never ever find success in the industry.

TsunamiOfSwagger · Sep 17, 2016

Don't let the proverbial door hit your arse on the way out.

yume_2501 · Sep 17, 2016

MrCunningham · Sep 17, 2016

"How can I explain, when there are few words I can choose? How can I explain when words get broken?"

Lamptramp · Sep 17, 2016

Hahahahahahaha! Uppance has finally come!

I feel sure this delusional pair will once again lay the blame for their continual misfortune at the feet of Jim, which does worry me somewhat. Its clear they lack the abilities of introspection and responsibility.

Creamium · Sep 17, 2016

anothertech · Sep 17, 2016

LOLOLOL

Hylian7 · Sep 17, 2016

If Jim Sterling hasn't read this yet, I'm sure a "Chains of Love" dance will be an order soon.

Get fuck DH, glad to see Valve put their foot down on this.

Zelias · Sep 17, 2016

Good riddance. Will they try to sue their way out of this predicament though?

CriterionDog · Sep 17, 2016

What kind of games did they release? Why were the pulled?

Possumowner · Sep 17, 2016

Oh damn this made me smile 😀

DieH@rd · Sep 17, 2016

MNC · Sep 17, 2016

What are the cliffs notes of this?

xrnzaaas · Sep 17, 2016

Can't wait to see what they're going to come up with when they'll sue Valve.

OléGunner · Sep 17, 2016

Sniffynose · Sep 17, 2016

Fury451 said:
Jim Sterling has the last laugh son

Yeah seriously now we can all laugh along with him xD

Sinatar · Sep 17, 2016

BocoDragon · Sep 17, 2016

The schadenfreude is strong.

Htown · Sep 17, 2016

MNC said:
What are the cliffs notes of this?

Digital Homicide are a terrible indie game developer. Literally the worst on Steam, and yes I realize what I'm saying. They release tons of games which are buggy, terrible, and basically just asset flips with no creativity or gameplay value. Their games get terrible reviews for obvious reasons. Since they have a bad reputation, they also started releasing games on Steam under different company names.

Games journalist Jim Sterling reviewed a game of theirs once and wasn't kind. They then tried to get his review taken down for copyright on Youtube. And made response videos to his reviews. Sterling kept making videos, the "feud" continued, yada yada yada they sued Jim Sterling.

The thing that got them removed from Steam was the fact that in addition to suing Jim Sterling, they recently decided to sue about 100 individual Steam users, and then sent Valve a subpoena to get their real names and addresses from their usernames. At this point, Valve decided that enough is enough, and told Digtal Homicide to kick rocks.

magawolaz · Sep 17, 2016

lmaoooo

Bedlam · Sep 17, 2016

Htown said:
Digital Homicide are a terrible indie game developer. Literally the worst on Steam, and yes I realize what I'm saying...

Yeah that's the gist of it but people should know that they pulled lots of other abhorrent stuff besides just publishing bad games and sueing people. From blatantly stealing assets to doxing Sterling and personally harrassing and threatening him and his family.

Ayato Kanzaki · Sep 17, 2016

Htown said:
Digital Homicide are a terrible indie game developer. Literally the worst on Steam, and yes I realize what I'm saying. They release tons of games which are buggy, terrible, and basically just asset flips with no creativity or gameplay value. Their games get terrible reviews for obvious reasons. Since they have a bad reputation, they also started releasing games on Steam under different company names.

Games journalist Jim Sterling reviewed a game of theirs once and wasn't kind. They then tried to get his review taken down for copyright on Youtube. And made response videos to his reviews. Sterling kept making videos, the "feud" continued, yada yada yada they sued Jim Sterling.

The thing that got them removed from Steam was the fact that in addition to suing Jim Sterling, they recently decided to sue about 100 individual Steam users, and then sent Valve a subpoena to get their real names and addresses from their usernames. At this point, Valve decided that enough is enough, and told Digtal Homicide to kick rocks.

I'd add to that threatening Jim Sterling by showing pictures of his house on their site and implying retaliation of a different kind than suing, it's worth being mentioned.

d00d3n · Sep 17, 2016

Anyone who predicted this and hit the jackpot with collectible removed Steam games?

Theanine3D · Sep 17, 2016

Now they're probably going to sue Valve for censorship or violating their first-amendment rights.

Valve will destroy them. I hope DH enjoys paying all their legal fees.

Fingers · Sep 17, 2016

Ayato Kanzaki said:
I'd add to that threatening Jim Sterling by showing pictures of his house on their site and implying retaliation of a different kind than suing, it's worth being mentioned.

Wow i never knew this bit of info! these guys are crazy.

I can't wait to see the number of lost sales they come up with when they sue valve for not helping therm sell their asset flips.

Conan-san · Sep 17, 2016

And to think it all took was two years of fucking around and eventual threat to life and liberty for Steam to pull it's finger out of it's arse.

Mivey · Sep 17, 2016

Ayato Kanzaki said:
I'd add to that threatening Jim Sterling by showing pictures of his house on their site and implying retaliation of a different kind than suing, it's worth being mentioned.

Honestly, I think Sterling might try change his residence for a bit. I could see these guys doing some even crazier shit when they realize how much they fucked themselves with all of this and they go blame him even more.

panty · Sep 17, 2016

Mentally unstable devs, truly.

StrikeFirst117 · Sep 17, 2016

One could say they committed a digital suicide.

SuperBanana · Sep 17, 2016

Hahaha. What a shame.

cyba89 · Sep 17, 2016

timetokill said:
They started suing Steam users who left negative reviews

lmao

Raybunny · Sep 17, 2016

Steam became a little cleaner of junk.

Madchad · Sep 17, 2016

I guess you could say valve committed a Digital Homicide.

HotHamBoy · Sep 17, 2016

While it's possible they could try to sue Valve since they appear to be delusional, Valve has more money than God so their bully litigation tactic could only hurt them financially, surely not Valve. And obviously they wouldn't have a case.

Creamium said:

Well. This image was sobering.

LiK · Sep 17, 2016

I can't wait for Jim's video about this.

Fantastapotamus · Sep 17, 2016

yume_2501 said:

Out of all the gifs in this thread, this one is by far the best.

Jackpot · Sep 17, 2016

Should have been done when they started flooding Steam with identical games.

Kinyou · Sep 17, 2016

Gez said:
Digital Suicide tried to subpoena 100 Steam users with the intention of suing that gave negative Steam reviews.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1279563

Wow, just wow

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