Yesterday, a court dismissed game developer Digital Homicide’s $10 million case against YouTube critic Jim Sterling. Fortunately for those of us who write about video games, Sterling’s scathing critique of Digital Homicide’s game Slaughtering Grounds won’t create precedent for developers slamming critics with million-dollar lawsuits.
One former 343 Industries QA Tester blames Microsoft's contracting policies for the Halo franchise's hardships and MS' exclusives downturn in quality.
Microsoft biggest opp is the main stream media lol suda 51 hit it on the head on metacritic and media bias.
I found that after Microsoft bought 2 certain ip's from Bungie and Epic their quality has gone down. The exclusives are boring Gears 4 and 5 I thought were boring Halo 5 I also thought was boring. And yes the quality was there when XB360 had exclusives. But since XB1 and Series X the quality and lack of exclusives has gone down. And yes it sounds like Microsoft is a prick to work for. Work today get turfed tomorrow.
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Hopefully there's good games, but we'll see. Going in with low hype, and I hope to be pleasantly surprised.
Where does the time go?
These "developers" are easily some of the most prime examples of human pieces of crap. They literally made a bunch of games, that would make the Atari 2600 look like a super computer, that were just slapped together assets they stole from Gary's Mod, all so they could claim they have this massive portfolio when people call bullshit; they then immediately played the victims and tried to sue for tens of millions of dollars. A couple of friggin scam artists, through and through. I hope that their legal bills for all this pointless mess were incredibly high and that they're swimming in debt now. Absolutely pathetic.
Good.
Dumbasses wasting the court time.
"Fortunately for those of us who write about video games, Sterling’s scathing critique of Digital Homicide’s game Slaughtering Grounds won’t create precedent for developers slamming critics with million-dollar lawsuits"
Thank the gaming gods????
Is that what Kotaku took from this? Wow. That's not even what the suit was about.
Maybe the author should be made aware, that if they make up sh*t, then they certainly can be slapped with multi-million dollar lawsuits. Sterling didn't do that, which is why this case was never going to go anywhere to begin with. It was frivolous. Sterling said no lies, nor did he do anything wrong.
But not all scenarios where this may happen will be like that, so journalists should be responsible, and think that this particular case is somehow indicative that they can just do whatever they want. Integrity is still important. Just be truthful, and you'll be fine.