Valve pulls Digital Homicide games from Steam over user charges

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Valve has decided to remove Digital Homicide’s portfolio from Steam because the studio “behaves hostile to Steam customers.” The game maker wants to sue 100 Steam users for personal attacks. Now the studio also wants to sue Valve.

The story started when it turned out that Digital Homicide, a developer of smaller games that are usually criticized in user reviews for their low quality and many bugs, decided to sue 100 different Steam users for emotional damage. The documents show that users express themselves critically, sometimes rudely, about the developer. The studio wants to see a total of $18 million in damages from the users. A US judge has approved the request to discover the identities of the users at Valve, writes Tech Raptor. Valve can still appeal this.

In response to the lawsuit, Valve’s response was simple: all Digital Homicide games were pulled from Steam and the company said it would no longer do business with the developer “due to their hostile attitude toward Steam users.” The studio had between 20 and 30 games on Steam.

In response, Digital Homicide wants to sue Steam again. The company claims that it first reported the 100 users it plans to take to court to Valve, but that it would not do anything with those reports. The studio thus states that it sees the lawsuit as the only possible way to defend itself against the online attacks. DH’s statement is accompanied by examples of the personal attacks, statements such as ‘I want to kill everyone involved’ and ‘you should kill yourself, I wasted my money on this’.

In the lawsuit against the 100 Steam users, the studio heads are representing themselves, but for the planned case against Valve, they are looking for a lawyer. In another case, the one against YouTube game critic Jim Sterling, Digital Homicide is also representing itself. The studio wants to see $15 million from Sterling for similar reasons.

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