Different people are different. For example, maybe ironically, your response also feels like it could be upvote farming to me. Also, the increased sense of justice thing is a thing.
But yeah, insane lawsuit. It's funny knowing that in that article they say that Valve is ignoring them, and has been ignoring them.
Edit: which raises the question: who the fuck published this article? Who is giving this stuff publicity? Dark money? Or is it just because it's ridiculous, to begin with?
I don't think it's a troll. I think it's specifically game publishers trying to carve out a niche and get more power to make more money, both from valve, and on their own digital distribution platforms by saying
"valve needs to pay us to sell our games because we are the license holders. And since we are the license holders, we can pay ourselves from sales on our own platforms"
So I think it's dumb on the surface, but ultra shitty underneath.
Like if they win, that's a bad precedent.
If they lose, that's still precedent.
And in the process, there's a SHIT TON of discovery, of a company that doesn't give out much information that competitors would love to get their hands on. Because if you know how a competitor operates, you can undermine them. Knowledge is power. It's super pathetic, but also scary, like a demon trying to figure out your style so they can steal your friends. Hopefully, we can rely on " just don't be shitty" to hold up.
All of these lawsuits popping up are like a distributed attack on Valve.
So what you're saying is, this lawsuit, and likely many others, is publishers-and-their-investors-who-want-to-not-have-to-go-through-steam-and-have-or-want-to-have-competing-but-monopolies-on-their-own-games-and-storefronts backed.
Feels like petulant publishers. "If I have to get licenses, so should the storefront dis isn't fairrrrrrrr waahhhhhhhh"
When the water dries up, you gotta get water from wherever you can. Unfortunately, there are dumdums out there fighting the water distribution company because they think they deserve more.
Yeah but isn't there a bunch of fine print when you put your game on steam saying "you allow us to ADVERTISE AND PLATFORM YOUR FUCKING GAME SO THAT IT SELLS"
I just realized I've been staring at this picture for over a minute, trying to figure out what it means. What does this picture mean?