Digital Homicide har figurerat mycket i nyheterna på sista tiden efter de har lämnat in stämningsansökningar mot både Jim Sterling och Steam-recensenter. Nu berättar delägaren James Romine hur detta har påverkat spelet, och om Valves val att ta ner det helt från Steam.
Gällande målet mot Sterling, säger Romine att "case waits for dismissal decision. No other comment on this." Han förvarar också företaget gällande anklagelserna om ofredande och att den enda anledningen till att det målaet las ner var "financial reasons caused by the removal of our games. I believe the case was very solid. There were in excess of 140 false statements by the 11 steam users, tens of thousands of posts harassing myself and my customers, three direct interference with written contracts with third parties by steam users (some of which were competitors), and much more. A combined in excess of 25 reports were filed against the worst users of the 11 with no resolutions being found."
"Then I get labelled as hostile for defending my few customers that speak English. We've received a lot of bad emails but there's been in excess of fifty positive emails over the past year more than a few from non-English speakers. Supporters would like to talk publicly but they don't want to be harassed, which I understand."
"It's destroyed. It's been stomped into the ground from a thousand directions and use is discontinued. I'm going back into the work force and watching what's really going on. Not gaming media gossip - the real stories are in the legal documents. Not talking about mine."
"We weren't some evil censoring dudes. If someone didn't like the game they could leave a bad review and refund - no hard feelings here at all. I was even rebuilding Forsaken and the single player was about 1/3 finished. Construction, inventory was all wrapped up and I was working on a strategy aspect. Those customers will now never see it. I expect random trolls showing up - no big deal. I'd even leave their stuff there if it wasn't too vile. The real problem was reoccurring returning attackers for in some cases 20 months. I'm a stationary target as a store front. I can't just log out and not come back. When that started getting aimed at customers is what triggered the case."
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