Independent video game developer Digital Homicide Studios on Monday posted a response to its ban from Valve Corporation’s digital distribution platform Steam. Valve banned the development studio this weekend, after Digital Homicide reportedly initiated legal action against 100 users who had posted negative reviews of its games. Digital Homicide resorted to lawsuits after Steam failed to resolve abuse issues that had arisen concerning those users of the Steam community, according to the Digital Homicide post.
Billy Pidgeon is a video game industry analyst and yet he says "This clearly got out of hand, but this is also about the users and products, and there is only so much that Steam can do about it," Pidgeon explained.
"Steam could have offered refunds," he suggested.
They DO offer refunds. If you're a video game industry analyst, you would think you would know this already. It's been around for quite a while now.
I also want to point out that Valve should have stuck to their no-harassment and hate speech policy and banned those player accounts, as well as taken the dev products down. In fact, Valve lets a ton of shady products through, chalking it up to excusable and uncontrollable, because of their supposed community-driven Greenlight project. This project was something Valve implemented and can easily adjust or turn off. They choose not to do anything about it, from what I can tell.
This gives Digital Homicide too much credit. Digital homicide is an indie dev in the same way that a newgrounds flash game is an indie game. Looking though some gameplay footage of their products it is immediately obvious that the developer is just churning out asset flip garbage.
Digital Homicide sued a consumer group because that group was holding them to task for their low quality products and sketchy behavior.
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Steam Blows Off Aggrieved Indie Dev
Posted by: Peter Suciu September 19, 2016 02:22 PMIndependent video game developer Digital Homicide Studios on Monday posted a response to its ban from Valve Corporation’s digital distribution platform Steam. Valve banned the development studio this weekend, after Digital Homicide reportedly initiated legal action against 100 users who had posted negative reviews of its games. Digital Homicide resorted to lawsuits after Steam failed to resolve abuse issues that had arisen concerning those users of the Steam community, according to the Digital Homicide post.
"Steam could have offered refunds," he suggested.
They DO offer refunds. If you're a video game industry analyst, you would think you would know this already. It's been around for quite a while now.
Digital Homicide sued a consumer group because that group was holding them to task for their low quality products and sketchy behavior.