[NEWS] Valve Bans Game Publisher After It Sues Players That Gave It Bad Steam Re

[Marios]

Steam is cutting losses and throwing it's users under the bus over this. And it will only happen again.

Holy crap! Valve is doing things for the good of all! Better stop them!

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[gr8dayseth]

I don't know why everyone is sucking steam's richard over this.
It's steams broken ass greenlight and rating systems that allowed all this to happen. And nothing has changed.

Steam is cutting losses and throwing it's users under the bus over this. And it will only happen again.

well i mean this was an unusual case where the dev tried to sue anybody that talked bad about their game, not every stuffty indie dev on steam does that kinda thing

[TheBrickBuilder]

Finally, digital homicide is dead. All of their games aren't even good.

Edit: I have a few of their games in my library, it would be cool if they would offer refunds on any of them no matter what. I idled to get the trading cards

[Bisjac]

Holy crap! Valve is doing things for the good of all! Better stop them!

What are you talking about? Steam not protecting thier own users from being forgeted when they use steams built in features is very bad. This issue wasn't solved.

[otto-san]

idk if steam has a built in "sue users who don't like your game" button for devs

[Bisjac]

idk if steam has a built in "sue users who don't like your game" button for devs

If devs can get court orders to any user's info (and apparently they can)
Then you are not protected from any review you make on steam.

[phflack]

were the reviews on steam or on youtube?

[gr8dayseth]

were the reviews on steam or on youtube?

steam but they did something about a review on youtube as well

[Bisjac]

were the reviews on steam or on youtube?

steam. just regular reviews we all have made.
you can be sued over it, and steam gives them your info to do so.

[otto-san]

valve isn't going to voluntarily fork over users' information, but if a court orders them to, they won't have much choice. that's out of valve's control, this is a purely legal problem

[IkeTheGeneric]

Steam pretty much opened up the flood gates with their zero quality control policy. Letting Digital Homicide get away for this long is unacceptable, he should have been shown the door at the first sign of him personally attacking critics

[Bisjac]

yes it is steams problem.
comments and reviews get court ordered all over the net, and they just get removed. but not on steam, users get sued personally.
the rules are different for them for no reason. and users are still subject to this right now. this opens all sorts of cans of worms for other devs to attack people now.
steam dosnt have to allow this.

[IkeTheGeneric]

The worst part is that everyone's giving Valve a pat on the back for sweeping it under the rug. The greenlight problem is going to keep festering with or without Digital Homicide's shovelware. Now Digital Homicide is going to get to be valve's scapegoat because it's his fault that he was allowed to do this, not steam's fault for not nipping it in the bud when it first became a problem

At this point it's something nobody wants to address, but if steam was in this condition before it's popularity snowballed, it never would have caught on.

[otto-san]

yes it is steams problem.
comments and reviews get court ordered all over the net, and they just get removed. but not on steam, users get sued personally.
the rules are different for them for no reason. and users are still subject to this right now. this opens all sorts of cans of worms for other devs to attack people now.
steam dosnt have to allow this.

they aren't allowing it, that's why they've removed all these games from the store and are refusing to do business with the company responsible?

also i feel like this has very little to do with the quality of people's games and everything to do with the quality of the developers' legal teams (and/or the devs themselves for having it happen)

[Ipquarx]

yes it is steams problem.
comments and reviews get court ordered all over the net, and they just get removed. but not on steam, users get sued personally.

What? No, that's not how that works. If any site is ordered a court order, if they don't comply they are breaking the law. The rules aren't different for them than anyone else.