Crosse Studio considering legal action against Zeboyd Games

We’re in day 9 of the Great Xbox Live Indie Games Ratings Scandal of 2011, and the controversy isn’t growing any less contentious. Crosse Studio’s Carlo Sunseri is now seeking legal counsel about possible damages caused by developer Robert Boyd’s allegations that lacrosse fans have been downvoting Cthulhu Saves the World and other indie games on the “Top Rated” list. Sunseri claims the article has caused his own game to drop in ratings and sales.

“Its (sic) simple, ever since Robert publicly accussed (sic) College Lacrosse 2011 of “manipulating ratings” the game has fallen from the fifth top rated game to the eleventh. On top of that sales have dropped,” Sunseri told Armless Octopus.

The scuttlebutt began when Sunseri posted a video on Crosse Studio’s Facebook page – which has more than 175,000 followers – that instructed fans on how to create a free Microsoft account and rate its game. The video never encouraged or even mentioned voting for other games, a fact that Boyd acknowledged in his article. During the weeks following the video’s posting, Cthulhu Saves the World plummeted from the 6th to 21st spot on the “Top Rated” list, and Boyd blamed the drop on fans who watched the video and rated his game 1-star without having played it.