PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Is A Successful Failure (The Jimquisition)
PUBG might have been a massive hit, but the behavior of the team behind it indicates it’s a failure in one very important way.
Tag: Lawsuit
PUBG Makers Start Suing Over Copyrights And Frying Pans
Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds isn’t endearing itself much to the community in its response to imitation. Far from flattered, the PUBG team have gone from threatening Epic to filing against mobile games who chomp their flavor. Source: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/04/06/playerunknowns-battlegrounds-creators-sue-mobile-games-for-copyright-infringement-and-frying-pan-use/
Patent Trolls Attempting To Shake Down Clicker Heroes Dev
Source: https://www.clickerheroes2.com/patent_trolls.php Patent trolls are especially despicable, to the point where I’d probably celebrate even Activision Blizzard putting one down. Targeting smaller developers and offering them glorified blackmail options is their stock and trade though, and here we see GTX Corp trying to give Playsaurus some classic shakedown treatment.
Another Dev Threatens To Sue Steam Users, Quickly Backtracks
What’s the old saying about doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results? Yeah.
Goodbye Greenlight (The Jimquisition)
Steam Greenlight, while once a promising and perhaps even noble endeavor, became a shitting tip in a year. Greenlight, aka Greenblight, aka Memelight, a service that did not so much open the floodgates as pull them off the hinges and sell the bastards for scrap metal. Now it’s gone, so…
When Jim Sterling Was Sued For $10 Million By Digital Homicide (The Jimquisition)
I am the videogame critic they tried to sue for $10 million. I’ve kept relatively quiet for almost a year while a spurious and disgusting libel lawsuit was spuriously filed in an attempt to disrupt my life. Now I get to talk. (Additional Credits: