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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."
or is it too much for submitters to write in grown up English and not teenie language
Didn't Sony announce they're buying Valve/Steam, with the transaction to complete by the end of September?
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Spoiler I kid, I kid, but I can just imagine the collective fury of the entire Internet if that ever happened.You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
So all the outrage over "ethics in gaming journalism " [lolllz] doesn't apply here because it's not about a woman?
You expected something different from the scumbag ideological hacks you refer to?
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.