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If you have ever wanted to see an indie video game developer commit PR suicide, then 2016 is your lucky year. In what appears to be an attempt to outdo Hello Games and their No Man's Sky debacle, indie developer Digital Homicide has filed a personal injury lawsuit against 100 people on Steam for writing negative reviews and comments about their various games. As the 100 people listed in the lawsuit are identified only by their Steam usernames, Digital Homicide has also subpoenaed Valve, the company behind Steam, for the actual names of the 100 people that they are suing.
As if that wasn't enough, Digital Homicide is allegedly considering another lawsuit directly against Valve in an attempt to create a digital "safe space" for developers on Steam. This effectively means that on top of the $18 million that Digital Homicide is seeking in damages in their original lawsuit against the 100 Jane and John Does, Digital Homicide wants Valve to create an environment on Steam where developers are safe from things like "harassment, verbal and written assault, libel, and slander." Mr. Bob Lawsuitsfeedmyfamily, a retired legal advisor that specializes in the study of frivolous lawsuits, stated that the two cases will likely "force Digital Homicide to change their company's name to Digital Suicide." Even in a best case scenario where Digital Homicide somehow wins their lawsuits against Valve, "they will likely be ridiculed and hated for as long as the Internet can remember" Lawsuitsfeedmyfamily said.
Source: http://techraptor.net/content/kekraptor-digital-homicide-sues-valve-wants-steam-safe-space
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 18 2016, @10:22PM
if it goes the wrong way you'll swiftly find most every internet company abandoning the United States
Muuowahhaaahaaahaaahhaaaa hahaha heh he... ohh... I haven't laughed this hard in a couple of weeks. Don't quit your day job kid.
The internet is one big advertising machine to sell you useless stuff... and it is still working. The US is prime territory to do this because we are all mindless slaves influenced very easily by dumb, shiny baubles. We're not free, we're not brave, we are just mindless little drones that do what our overlords tell us to do on pain of having our livelihood taken away from us. We even believe it when they tell us that advertising is made "tailored" or "relevant" to us as if that is somehow a good thing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 18 2016, @11:28PM
Yes, still working...on some people. A lot of people, actually. Unfortunately. What's that? You thought that just because some advertisement is pushing crap that you MUST then buy it? No, you don't need to buy it. It is not required. Of course, it takes a little bit of will power to say no to the siren call of advertisements for the latest shiny new bauble. But some of us were taught how to exercise such will power by our parents when we were toddlers. They just said things like "No, I'm not going to buy you a chainsaw so that you can cut your little brother in half". And that was (definitely) the end of that. See how easy it is?
Speak for yourself, loser! Not all of us lack will power to say no to the siren call of advertising. Actually, with a little bit of practice it can come quite naturally. The trick is to discern the subtle difference between need and want. Try it sometime for yourself. You'll see.