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Digital Homicide plunges further into insanity - Sues Steam users
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ShinRPGamer
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Jim Sterling must be having the biggest smirk right now. These fools have finally put the final nail in their coffin.
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Is steam nuking this idiot from orbit?
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TheSpoiler
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If you bought these games do you get to keep them?
How will we archive such horribleness?!
Infinite Justice
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Truly a Digital Homicide, truly
Don't worry, Wyatt Derp and its sequel are still in my library.
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gigantor21
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You can just buy the in-game assets and throw them together at random like they did.
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Glad to see some justice being done and that Valve took appropriate action.
If they're smart, they will walk away. Maybe they can come back later and genuinely try to make genuine games.
No sane person would sue Valve over this.
They're screwed if anyone they sue is in an anti-SLAPP state.
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lol
this is too good. I wonder what Jim has to say about this.
These guys are neither smart nor sane.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Heh.
Leafhopper
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The best news all week.
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looooooooooool
They really thought going after Valve's neck would go well.
Oh man this Olympic regulation sized pool of schadenfreude is DELICIOUS.
I can't stop laughing.
NegativeCero
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Puppet Shadow
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Their Facebook page is proud to highlight all the games they have for sale on Steam.
Edit: lol, the links there now take you to the main store page of developers not names Digital Homicide.
Their website:
Aw.. the giveaway is over.
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Steam's rebuttal: Your honor, what reviews? We don't see any bad reviews.
Will the courts throw it out now that the games no longer "exist" in the original state that they were played in?
MagicWithEarvin
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Believe it or not, there's literally a defense force for everything here.
DeathSparks
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God bless steam
<puts on Not A Lawyer Hat>
It certainly doesn't help Romine's case. Hell, nothing about this new situation does. It continues to portray Romine as a vexatious litigant, and when he inevitably sues Valve for delisting DigiHom's games, that'll just add fuel to the bonfire.
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Burn, baby, burn.
To be honest, it's stunning that this is the line they had to cross before anything was done considering all they've been getting away with. Like I'm so happy they've effectively played themselves off the platform, but damn, I just hope no other idiots take the wrong lessons away from this, i.e. "this is valve's threshold, everything below is fair game", because that's almost the message Valve sent by not addressing any of this sooner.
BluePikmin11
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Is Digital Homicide a company or an organization attacking bad reviews? A little bit confused right now.
Puppet Shadow
Member
Eh, where do you draw the line though?
How shitty does a game have to be to be de-listed?
How dickish do devs have to be to their critics or fans for that to happen?
Drawing a line at a dev attempting to sue Valve's customers seems like a good one.
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Based Gaben had enough of these tools.
Soldiussnaku
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Hahaha, what the fuck? I thought I saw the worst of Gaf with the trump supporters but this takes the cake.
Jacksinthe
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REKT
You don't have to draw the line at the quality of a game or community interaction. They were setting up multiple studios for nearly every game they released on steam, it might not be illegal but pretty shady nonetheless. It felt pretty obvious to most people that this wasn't a normal dev studio operating under normal standards, hell it wasn't even anomalous standards, instead a couple of people trying to game the system, and being allowed to do so.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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WOW. Man shot himself in the foot. Where the public apology and kissing his ass goodbye when you need it?
Theanine3D
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Valve isn't in the business of removing games just because the developers are assholes, or because the games are bad.
If the latter was true, all the terrible console ports from well-recognized and respected studios/publishers wouldn't be on Steam right now. Like Dark Souls.
Suing Valve's customers was a direct attack on the company. You mess with their source of income, you mess with them too. So it's not surprising they finally did something, it had less to do with Digital Homicide's games being garbage, but everything to do with Valve protecting their business and their customers.
ImaLemming
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At the risk of being a spoilsport, I want to wait a few days before celebrating. Remember when all those Krog Wars clones got flagged for being incompatible with Steam, then later the flags were gone?
Although apparently, Steam was once ready to wipe their games but relented when James said everyone was just meanie poop heads saying meanie poop things about him. Maybe the subpoena tipped Steam over the edge.
Twitter with 134K followers. I want to say the vast majority of them are purchased bots, but that would put me on the list for when Robert decides to sue NeoGAF.
Although apparently, Steam was once ready to wipe their games but relented when James said everyone was just meanie poop heads saying meanie poop things about him. Maybe the subpoena tipped Steam over the edge.
Twitter with 134K followers. I want to say the vast majority of them are purchased bots, but that would put me on the list for when Robert decides to sue NeoGAF.
