More_Badass
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Something tells me that this news site only heard a very...biased version of events
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Digital Homicide is seeking Legal Action aganist Valve
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Investigative journalism at its finest
Jacksinthe
Banned
11 people made 20,000 harassing posts? Am I reading that gibberish right?
Did this "news" site investigate?
I had my own run-in with "journalists" not properly investigating an issue I had with naming conventions for our game and after I provided screenshots of a whole shitload of info, archives of public pages on Google and a myriad of data to support my claims the site ran with my opponent's whole interview and left all of my info out of the article.
JOURNELIZM
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
wut
Edit: Wow, according to Steam Spy they sold more than 2 million copies of their shit games on Steam so far. 95% of them cost 1$ mind you, but that's still a lot of sales for such shitty games.
Palette Swap
Member
They're doing themselves and the larger cause of fighting online harassment a major disservice by conflating people saying their games are utter shit with their harassers. And by that, I mean that yes, the assholes who harassed them, threatened them and sent them shit should face consequences, but this should not be used as a cover to deflect criticism and take it out on everyone.
Also :
Also :
Welcome to Valve time !
samuraidino
Member
Digital Homicide were pretty notorious for liberally dolling out free keys to their games,id highly doubt theyve sold anywhere close to that amount of games.
Jacksinthe
Banned
While true, I'm sure the negative attention did bring them some extra sales.
When looking thorugh the cour documents , it becomes clear that really don't have a case.
A lot of the stuff they show is harmless.
Like, one of them said that he can't find them on itch.io , followed by "hahahaha".
Other time I'm not even sure why these post are there in the first place, because nothing about them is offensive in the least.
A lot of the stuff they show is harmless.
Like, one of them said that he can't find them on itch.io , followed by "hahahaha".
Other time I'm not even sure why these post are there in the first place, because nothing about them is offensive in the least.
Not in the UK they are not.
A company cannot force you to waive your rights like that.
Anyway that's barely relevant. While these devs have legitimate points regarding issues of harassment etc and have the right to litigate, they are the epitome of "pot calling the kettle black".
The whole saga with Sterling etc shows how unsavoury these guys are and frankly while Valve should be better at dealing with people who should have no place in civil society this lawsuit isn't going to tip the scales.
This lawsuit shouldn't go anywhere, however Valve need to step up and realise the US centric view of letting their platform almost being abused carte Blanche by trolls in the name of protecting "free speech" should be countered by fostering positive community management in a global community setting.
Don't forget the whole reason DH are suing anyone was because their "fee fee's" were hurt.
What I find rather amusing is that there were turned down by the FBI and County Sheriff's Office. FBI because people are saying mean things? really?
ImaLemming
Member
The real money maker wasn't the games, it was the trading cards. This video speculates the Romines made $200,000 on the things.
So the Romine's killed their own golden goose, because they couldn't handle basic criticism of their games.
Games that seem to have been marketed specifically to take advantage of the trading card marketplace function.
What a weird place to make some sort of a stand.
Bigrx1
Banned
Considering they actually interviewed Romine for this article, of course they did. They even have a creepy pic of the guy. I hate to judge people based on looks, but he looks kind of like I expected to be honest lol.
The Janitor
Member
Bigrx1
Banned
This exactly, in 2 years they haven't been able to let it go and have destroyed their own money maker, while the entire time blaming everyone and everyone else in the process. The Romine's seriously hold and cherish the victim card like their own baby.
R_thanatos
Member
Is that a real quote in the article ?
it's hard to believe
ImaLemming
Member
I don't want to look at it because I'm afraid it'll make me shoot blood out of my eyes like one of those lizards, but did he tell the interviewer to look up what a "leech" was?
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Fuck man, I should just do the same thing.
Do you know what the most hilarious part about the whole "leech" thing is?
He wasn't using the defintion "a leech", but of "to leech", which is obviously a verb and not a noun.
Oh give me a break DH. It's time to stop DH, accept your loss here and they you fucked up.
Bigrx1
Banned
I didn't realize about the whole secondary market on Steam and how developers like Digital Homicide make a boatload of money not from their game sales, but from the trading card and marketplace sales. No wonder they just dish out garbageware by the tons, they literally on purpose don't care about the quality of the games but just want more and more out there for this reason. Watched this Tarmack video and it really opened my eyes to what they were really doing. Pretty wild.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX6Ge-KaoZg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX6Ge-KaoZg