I submit to you, a tale of some idiots for your entertainment.
An indie game dev walks into Steam and releases a shitty game. It is universally hated, as well as all of the other "games" they release. Users leave bad reviews on Steam and actively attempt to stop this dev from getting anymore games greenlit so no more customers are ripped off by absolutely abysmal quality of these games. Dev gets angry and files an $18 million lawsuit against 100 Steam users for being meany heads and not liking their crap games. Files for, and gets a subpoena, against Valve to release personal information on said users. In response Valve removes all the games from this dev from both the store and Steam greenlight, thereby ensuring this dev will lose what little sales they would have had otherwise.
As strange as it sounds, this is an ongoing issue that just recently became a thing within the last couple days. Digital Homicide has filed an $18 million lawsuit against 100 steam users. I have to say, I did have one of their games that I received for free from a giveaway, and before I even bothered to waste space on my hard drive I checked out some reviews for it. It, without question, looked like complete and utter garbage. There are no redeeming qualities to this game whatsoever. So I just left it in my library to collect dust and inflate my game count on steam... Until tonight when I heard about this lawsuit, and then I requested to have this game removed completely from my account because I will not have a game from these people anywhere near me.
I don't know what these people really expected to happen with this, or when people got wind of it, but it appears Digital Homicide has committed digital and financial suicide.
An indie game dev walks into Steam and releases a shitty game. It is universally hated, as well as all of the other "games" they release. Users leave bad reviews on Steam and actively attempt to stop this dev from getting anymore games greenlit so no more customers are ripped off by absolutely abysmal quality of these games. Dev gets angry and files an $18 million lawsuit against 100 Steam users for being meany heads and not liking their crap games. Files for, and gets a subpoena, against Valve to release personal information on said users. In response Valve removes all the games from this dev from both the store and Steam greenlight, thereby ensuring this dev will lose what little sales they would have had otherwise.
As strange as it sounds, this is an ongoing issue that just recently became a thing within the last couple days. Digital Homicide has filed an $18 million lawsuit against 100 steam users. I have to say, I did have one of their games that I received for free from a giveaway, and before I even bothered to waste space on my hard drive I checked out some reviews for it. It, without question, looked like complete and utter garbage. There are no redeeming qualities to this game whatsoever. So I just left it in my library to collect dust and inflate my game count on steam... Until tonight when I heard about this lawsuit, and then I requested to have this game removed completely from my account because I will not have a game from these people anywhere near me.
I don't know what these people really expected to happen with this, or when people got wind of it, but it appears Digital Homicide has committed digital and financial suicide.