-
Hey Guest. Check out your NeoGAF Wrapped 2025 results here!
Digital Homicide closes down, drops lawsuit
- Thread starter SirMossyBloke
- Start date
SirMossyBloke
Member
Well fuck that then, didn't notice. I'll remove that link.
JimJamJones
Member
daninthemix
Member
Will there ever be a comment from Jimothy Sterling, son?
Sorcerer Supreme
Member
they should've kept making shitty games and gaming the system by making money off trading cards while getting free publicity from jim. they deserve this outcome for being so stupid.
No, but like the last time they had sock puppet developer names the internet will find out, the only blind spot is if they make a good game that people want to part their cash with and to actually play the games because they're fun.
But for now.
*Maniacal laughter*
Gentleman Jack
Member
I don't know that Steam deserves much credit; their actions were driven entirely from DH's poorly thought-out lawsuit. DH was still perfectly allowed by Valve to run the business how they wanted up until that point, which means that there's little to stop a copycat from repeating that, even if another Jimquisition brings in notoriety. So from a certain perspective, Steam hasn't 'done the right thing' as far as curation of its own store goes. Still plenty of cheap asset flips and shady Early Access abusers out there designed to siphon money from the trading cards they generate and Valve is doing nothing.
Glitchesarecool
Member
Since they went in pro se they didn't have lawyers fees at least.
ElRenoRaven
Member
Can't wait when a "new" steam dev appears out of no where spamming asset rehashes. Wonder how much longer they'll keep trying to sue JIm.
Deadpool_X
Banned
Ding, dong, the Witch is dead...
giant_frying_pan
Member
Fuckity bye 
I think they sued him to a) be a nuisance to him, and b) shut him up
It will hurt them more than him long term, but you can't say it didn't work
MiguelItUp
Member
I still can't help but feel like something is off with Digital Homicide. I mean, it's hard to wrap my head around. The roads they tried to take, and how they took them. It's just not normal.
Jack Scofield
Member
Reposting from the thread that was just closed:
Someone eventually needs to create cliff notes about this whole ordeal. I don't even know who Digital Homicide is or what they did wrong, but they've popped up in like a dozen Gaf threads over the past month or two. I'm curious about the whole thing but don't know where to begin.
Someone eventually needs to create cliff notes about this whole ordeal. I don't even know who Digital Homicide is or what they did wrong, but they've popped up in like a dozen Gaf threads over the past month or two. I'm curious about the whole thing but don't know where to begin.
everyday math
Banned
Good luck finding another job
thatJohann
Member
Can someone explain to me why gaming community hates this dev team? and what the drama is with Jim sterling? Thx!
Reposting this from the other thread: Is the case against Jim dropped too?
Digital Homicide is one of the devs that does the "asset flip" for their "games", where they buy assets from the Unity Store, throw them together and call it a "game" even though it's total garbage with no effort put in, and sell them for a buck on Steam to make money off trading card sales. Jim Sterling called them out, as he plays a log of crap that gets through Steam Greenlight and onto Steam, and then they retaliated by responding to one of his videos with his own video, but with text overlayed saying all this shit about how "fucking stupid" Jim fucking Sterling son (that video was how he got that name) was, so they kept this feud going with him. They wanted to have an interview with him and record it, so he did and you could just tell from this thing how delusional they were. It was an hour of absolute ridiculousness. They continued putting out these kinds of games on Steam, and kept calling Jim a "leech", and that he was "weaponizing his fans" to harass DH.
DH kept making threats to sue him, but they didn't for a while until earlier this year. They sued him, and were representing themselves. Then a few weeks ago, they sued 100 Steam users, including Baron von FappyWank (which I'm sure they expect a judge to look at and somehow not laugh). Then Valve removed DH's games from Steam because they were being hostile toward customers, and then this happened and here we are.
Digital Homicide is one of the devs that does the "asset flip" for their "games", where they buy assets from the Unity Store, throw them together and call it a "game" even though it's total garbage with no effort put in, and sell them for a buck on Steam to make money off trading card sales. Jim Sterling called them out, as he plays a log of crap that gets through Steam Greenlight and onto Steam, and then they retaliated by responding to one of his videos with his own video, but with text overlayed saying all this shit about how "fucking stupid" Jim fucking Sterling son (that video was how he got that name) was, so they kept this feud going with him. They wanted to have an interview with him and record it, so he did and you could just tell from this thing how delusional they were. It was an hour of absolute ridiculousness. They continued putting out these kinds of games on Steam, and kept calling Jim a "leech", and that he was "weaponizing his fans" to harass DH.
DH kept making threats to sue him, but they didn't for a while until earlier this year. They sued him, and were representing themselves. Then a few weeks ago, they sued 100 Steam users, including Baron von FappyWank (which I'm sure they expect a judge to look at and somehow not laugh). Then Valve removed DH's games from Steam because they were being hostile toward customers, and then this happened and here we are.
Chairmanchuck
Member
They released asset-flips on Steam, Jim Sterling made a video about their bad games, they sued him, later on they sued steam user and wanted to sue Steam when Steam knew a company is sueing their (Steam) users.
SliceSabre
Banned
Good riddance. Glad to hear their stupidity is over and done with now.
Quadraphonic
Member
Made a crappy Steam greenlight game.
Sterling does a video on how fucking terrible it is and how it stole assets. (And it stole plenty.)
They sue him, with no attorney, just themselves.
The court case details are hilarious because they aren't attorneys. So there's lots of fuck ups in the process.
Everyone shits on them on Steam.
Time passes.
Out of nowhere, now they wanted to sue 100+ Steam users for saying bad things about them on Steam, so they subpoena Valve for their info.
Valve pulls their games off of the store.
DH files to dismiss the suits because of loss of income from not having their games up for sale, which I doubt anyone was buying.
Jim F. Sterling Son always be bringing the thunder
Perfect
Hysterical
Member
Can't believe people like these guys exist smh. So glad its done with, what a bad move by DH.
Chairmanchuck
Member
They didnt really steal it. They bought it from the Unity store and used some shutterstock images.
I don't know if you listened to the interview Jim did with the guy, it's hard to listen to, but from that you should know they don't have their shit together.
joecanada
Member
yup very good point.
When business and feelings mix, this is the result.
the correct response would have been to laugh with Jim "ok we make silly games but we enjoy it and we hope others do to".
one and done.
That's not how these assholes work.
Triggerhappytel
Member
This is what I expect will happen. They will probably form a new company (maybe under pseudonyms or using family members as the founders?) and put themselves back on Steam. Hopefully they'll pay a bit more attention to their product quality and keep their heads down without being twats.
thekiddfran
Member
Looked them up on Wikipedia.
Their software catalogue is 100% trash and shovelware
How did they ever make money?
Their software catalogue is 100% trash and shovelware
How did they ever make money?
Market fees from Steam trading cards.
The same way most asset flippers make money on Steam.
Trading Cards.