BananasWithGuns
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Good riddance.
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.
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.
They started suing Steam users who left negative reviews
Jim Sterling has the last laugh son
What are the cliffs notes of this?
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.Digital Homicide are a terrible indie game developer. Literally the worst on Steam, and yes I realize what I'm saying...
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.
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.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.
They started suing Steam users who left negative reviews
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