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Valve Bans Developer From Steam After It Sues Customers Over Bad Reviews (arstechnica.com)
From an ArsTechnica report: A game developer has been banned from Steam after users claimed that it had attempted to sue 100 users of the platform for $18 million -- for the crime of leaving bad reviews. Digital Homicide, which has released dozens of small games mostly available for a couple of quid each, had its titles removed from Valve's popular digital distribution platform on Friday night. Its boss, James Romine, was granted a subpoena by a court in Arizona apparently allowing him to demand the release of "identification and associated data" of anonymous Steam users. The lawsuit listed in turn the misdemeanours of dozens of John/Jane Does, which include counts of "harassment," "stalking," and "cyber-bullying." In a brief e-mail sent to Vice's Motherboard at the end of last week, Valve's marketing veep Doug Lombardi confirmed that "Valve has stopped doing business with Digital Homicide for being hostile to Steam customers."
"Romine's GoFundMe account, set up to fund the suit, has made just $425 of his $75,000 goal, even though he claims he "received a pile of feces in the mail" and that he had had messages saying things like "Your wife is a whore," and "I hope you die in a fiery car crash.""
Romine is a guy who does not get teh net.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
More like Digital Suicide! Hur-hur-hur — I'll see myself out.
+0 Meh
Agreed, it is fairly hard to understand foreign languages like Great Britainniash..
To clarify a couple of quid is around 500 Albanian Leks
For the non-english speakers a quid is equal to 1.3 bucks.
When I go buck hunting, I bring home two whole bucks. Anyone who tries to walk off with two-thirds of my buck will get an ass full of lead. :P
Ah, I know that place. All my computer RAM is made there.
Or about 250 Trillian Zimbabwean dollars.
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Apparently the developer was getting comments consisting of death threats.
Clearly, this is due to prevalent sexism in gaming and we should rally around this "developer" to fight off these GG aggressors.
So we should expect a UK remake of the classic John Candy flick as "Uncle Quid"?
There is no right to feel safe thru security vaudeville at the expense of everyone's freedom, privacy and tax money.