Presenting the people who legit did not see this coming:
Digital Homicide
Checked out the sourced TechRaptor article
[QUOTE]"We may have been painted in a negative customer light by gaming media, truthfully we’ve been fighting for lower prices and a more open market – which to me is the most important thing for consumers."[/QUOTE]
They're still trying to pull that "WE DO IT FOR THE INDIE DEVS" shit they were saying when Jim initally roasted them.
Yaaaaay, get fucked.
and nothing of value was lost.
Digital Suicide
Can't say I feel bad for them. They brought this on themselves
[QUOTE]As far as digital homicide? It’s destroyed. It’s been stomped into the ground from a thousand directions and use is discontinued. I’m going back into the work force and watching what’s really going on. Not gaming media gossip – the real stories are in the legal documents. Not talking about mine.
We weren’t some evil censoring dudes. If someone didn’t like the game they could leave a bad review and refund – no hard feelings here at all. [B]I was even rebuilding forsaken and the single player was about 1/3 finished. Construction, inventory was all wrapped up and I was working on a strategy aspect. [U]Those customers will now never see it.[/U][/B] I expect random trolls showing up – no big deal. I’d even leave their stuff there if it wasn’t too vile. The problem real problem was reoccurring returning attackers for in some cases 20 months. I’m a stationary target as a store front. I can’t just log out and not come back. When that started getting aimed at customers is what triggered the case. But… I’m hostile.[/QUOTE]
[U]THANK GOD[/U]
no but seriously, no one genuinely likes your games. You aren't a real developer, and never were. But of course you're going to pretend otherwise no matter what happens because your ego is too big to handle criticism while pretending that you can handle it at the same time. Now look at where your ego got you dude.
[QUOTE]They released over 24 games released since may with most being in the last two months or so. 60+ percent of their games are mostly negative or worse and they don’t have the Youtube train running over them. None of those had to go through Greenlight.[/QUOTE]
It's just poetry that this guy exploited greenlight and then points at other examples of people spamming stuff on steam and goes "But what about this" even though he did the same shit
You blameless idiot your making yourself look worse every time you speak
What about the lawsuit against Valve? Or did that sink with the Steam user lawsuit?
[QUOTE=Pvt. Martin;51147035]What about the lawsuit against Valve? Or did that sink with the Steam user lawsuit?[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=The article itself]But last week it requested that the lawsuit be dismissed, because [B]it can no longer afford to pursue it.[/B][/QUOTE]
Good.
These scamming asswipes looking for personal information to exploit just got completely fucked over, and not a single tear was shed for their losses.
"Let's sue the consumers of the people who're allowing us to sell the shitty games we make cheap profit from, this totally won't backfire at all!"
I sorta refuse to believe that the "developers" are adults, they seem like a group of clueless high schoolers or something
[QUOTE=Rixxz2;51147183]I sorta refuse to believe that the "developers" are adults, they seem like a group of clueless high schoolers or something[/QUOTE]
I think that they were just two guys that saw that video games were profitable but they knew absolutely nothing about games or the culture around it so the one in command told the other to make video games so he learned how to import shit into unity and compile them into an exe while the guy in command ran everything else but was completely incompetent and probably going insane from all the shit that goes into running business by himself while at the same time having a completely retarded and greedy lawyer who convinced them that they could sue people for money because they'd be so afraid of spending the money on a lawsuit and possibly losing that they would just settle out of court. Their lawyer probably used the words "easy money" over and over again and that's probably all he had to say since they would just fill in the gaps
[QUOTE=Dr.C;51147347]I think that they were just two guys that saw that video games were profitable but they knew absolutely nothing about games or the culture around it so the one in command told the other to make video games so he learned how to import shit into unity and compile them into an exe while the guy in command ran everything else but was completely incompetent and probably going insane from all the shit that goes into running business by himself while at the same time having a completely retarded and greedy lawyer who convinced them that they could sue people for money because they'd be so afraid of spending the money on a lawsuit and possibly losing that they would just settle out of court. Their lawyer probably used the words "easy money" over and over again and that's probably all he had to say since they would just fill in the gaps[/QUOTE]
Your average lawyer would probably know better not to make a decision like the one they tried to make.
[QUOTE=Dr. Kyuros;51147556]Your average lawyer would probably know better not to make a decision like the one they tried to make.[/QUOTE]
your average lawyer also probably doesn't understand what steam is, but is probably confident enough to assume they can make somebody settle out of court over 'libel and slander' through publicly broadcasting opinion
Are they still going through with the suit against Jim Sterling, then? The article doesn't mention it.
[QUOTE=KingOfScience;51147894]Are they still going through with the suit against Jim Sterling, then? The article doesn't mention it.[/QUOTE]
They're waiting on a decision on Sterling's motion to dismiss.
[QUOTE=Dr. Kyuros;51147090]Good.
These scamming asswipes looking for personal information to exploit just got completely fucked over, and not a single tear was shed for their losses.[/QUOTE]
I watched that 4 hour video that dissected that lawsuit and I can confirm, the entire thing was for revenge any nothing else. And it was very, very clear what the intent was.
DH was asking for a very crazy amount of info on the users and either a huge payment from them or permanent removal from steam
he wanted to effectively kill their ability to buy many games and get their IP's, time stamps, everything. Fuck me I was more surprised that he didn't add "Social security" numbers into the mix
if the lawsuit was successful and went through exactly as worded, I'm pretty sure it would kill the game industry because it'd allow people to pretty much sue anyone for slightly criticizing them. But it never was destined to make it, and there is no alternate reality where it does.
:goodjob:
I swear this company was run by 8 year olds.
[QUOTE=usaokay;51148784]How not to handle criticism 101[/QUOTE]
When you're cool and level headed about even people hating on you, everyone sees that your a rad lad and gives you mad respect for it
and then there's being a huge cunt about it... ha DH guess what happens when you do that. Fucking surprised huh???????
The irony is if DH never responded to Jim Sterling or any of the haters, they'd probably be sitting pretty right now making a steady stream of cash from people buying the games out of morbid curiosity or to give as gag gifts.
And they still learned absolutely nothing from this.
I wonder if they were really expecting the suit to go anywhere or if they were just trying to scare a bunch of people into settling out of court.
[QUOTE=Anderan;51149332]I wonder if they were really expecting the suit to go anywhere or if they were just trying to scare a bunch of people into settling out of court.[/QUOTE]
I never bet fully on anything, but if I did, it would in fact be that they were just hoping to scare them into settling. I think even they knew that a defense of "they said bad things about our games and other people wouldn't buy them because of all those mean things" wouldn't hold up.
[QUOTE=Dr.C;51147347]I think that they were just two guys that saw that video games were profitable but they knew absolutely nothing about games or the culture around it so the one in command told the other to make video games so he learned how to import shit into unity and compile them into an exe while the guy in command ran everything else but was completely incompetent and probably going insane from all the shit that goes into running business by himself while at the same time having a completely retarded and greedy lawyer who convinced them that they could sue people for money because they'd be so afraid of spending the money on a lawsuit and possibly losing that they would just settle out of court. Their lawyer probably used the words "easy money" over and over again and that's probably all he had to say since they would just fill in the gaps[/QUOTE]
I think the most telling thing about the suit is that they were representing themselves. Im thinking they were repping themselves because they couldnt find a lawyer insane enough to take the case.
[QUOTE=Cmx;51150468]I think the most telling thing about the suit is that they were representing themselves. Im thinking they were repping themselves because they couldnt find a lawyer insane enough to take the case.[/QUOTE]
So either the lawyer who told them "easy money, easy money" over and over left, or it was the voice in the ideas guy's head.
This seems like a scheme from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Frank funds a video game studio and Charlie spends all his time making games in the basement and bashing rats while the rest of the gang fights over who is in control and Dee keeps bringing Charlie caffeine, beer, and trying to learn how to make Charlie's energy balls. Charlie ends up shitting out several different games that are coincidentally the same as bad rats and he never gets to release his magnum opus. Mac and Dennis spend the episode at a convention trying to get laid but all the feminists hate Dennis because he's almost a rapist.
[QUOTE=Dr.C;51151581]So either the lawyer who told them "easy money, easy money" over and over left, or it was the voice in the ideas guy's head.
This seems like a scheme from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Frank funds a video game studio and Charlie spends all his time making games in the basement and bashing rats while the rest of the gang fights over who is in control and Dee keeps bringing Charlie caffeine, beer, and trying to learn how to make Charlie's energy balls. Charlie ends up shitting out several different games that are coincidentally the same as bad rats and he never gets to release his magnum opus. Mac and Dennis spend the episode at a convention trying to get laid but all the feminists hate Dennis because he's almost a rapist.[/QUOTE]
"The Gang Gets on Steam"
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