Valve removes 'customer-hostile' games developer from Steam

[iworrall]

Misread. Post deleted.

[virtuo]

Forgive me if I missed where this was explained, but if steam has removed all these products from sale (no opinion on this at the moment), does this now mean that those (potentially few) buyers who want to play what they have already bought can no longer do so.... do the games disappear from their library? Do they get a refund from Steam if steam have removed the game(s)?

I think if a game is removed from sale for whatever reason, it can still be downloaded by those that have purchased it - it remains in their library.

[Corky34]

Forgive me if I missed where this was explained, but if steam has removed all these products from sale (no opinion on this at the moment), does this now mean that those (potentially few) buyers who want to play what they have already bought can no longer do so.... do the games disappear from their library? Do they get a refund from Steam if steam have removed the game(s)?

Going on this BBC report they say the games will still be accessible via Steam, although I'm not sure many people would be bothered as DH's games seem to cost between £1-2.

[Avidz]

What about Hello Games ? They should be removed from the face of this planet.

[Saracen]

I get the impression some of the "reviews" were anything but, that's unless you consider death threats and the like to be a review.

Clearly, I don't, but my point was a bit different. I have seen a variety of "reviews", ranging from mistaken on matters of fact, to incompetently done, to downright malicious.

The point was, everybody making any public comments, be if a forum remark or a newspaper article, can be held to account for it. It is certainly generally the case that an individual making a forum post is less likely to end up in legal trouble, but it is also most certainly still possible. As a journalist, and a freelance one at that, I take my legal expisure quite seriously because the potential for it to get ruinously expensive is fairly high. The obvious risks are civil suits for copyright or defamation issues, but there are a large number of other issues, from getting clobbered by contempt proceedings for breaking court injunctions to criminal issues .... like making death threats in a "review".

Even a thoughtless tweet has the potential for landing the hapless tweeter in legal poop, some of it very serious. But in this day and age, when every four year okd and older can "publish", I'd bet a very small percentage of people "publishing" on the internet ever give the kegal implucations more than a passing thought, and a very small percenrage of those have even a rough idea of the breadth and depth of the potential problems.