They also sold off to Valve Corp and fire a lot of people, leaving a few to work on Alyx VR.
Twinklebreeze@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Didn’t the devs pull some shit with dmca notices?
firecat@kbin.social 11 months ago
Twinklebreeze@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Didn’t the devs pull some shit with dmca notices?
They also sold off to Valve Corp and fire a lot of people, leaving a few to work on Alyx VR.
wallybeavis@lemmy.world [bot] 11 months ago
This was years ago, but IIRC some youtuber used the N word while playing one of the studio’s games. The developers found out and sent the youtuber a dmca takedown notice for all their games, because f*ck racism and racist sh*tbags
semperverus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I agree with the premise of why the devs did it, but DMCA abuse is still DMCA abuse, and the letter of the law matters. They should have 100% found a different mechanism to make them pull the videos down.
sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Yeah but it was kinda shitty from the devs, because they explicitly (on their webpage) gave everyone permission to post gameplay videos, and then dropped the DMCA on pewdiepie because he said the n word in a different video.
Not defending pewdiepie, but the devs shouldn’t have proceeded that way. At least they should’ve asked him to take the playthrough down instead.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I would’ve imagined a game developer doesn’t have any say over what someone says on their streams. Weird if they have that power