Made a bad game? Just call copyright strikes on any bad reviews!

Aldurin · 10-21-2013, 08:28 AM

Long story short, Wild Games Studio made Day One: Garry's Incident and managed to distribute it after a failed fraudulent kickstarter (the CEO tried inflating pledge total to fake popularity) and getting through Steam Greenlight via promising Steam keys to people who voted for it. People discovered that it was shit, Totalbuscuit was one of the people thrashing it and the studio called copyright strike to shut it down, despite ignoring other reviews and LP footage and having blatant documentation around about them giving an OK for people to upload videos of their content.

The big deal? Youtube shuts down channels that get three copyright strikes at once, and this can automatically be assigned, even bypassing agreements with networks to prevent this sort of problem. Removing this taint after three strikes is more or less impossible, with only a few channels like TheSw1tcher recovering through the ungodly clout of the top networks, so suppressing a review in this way is a very vicious abuse since it's a nail in a coffin with only three nail holes.

It also suppresses internet speech and damages consumerism, as the hivemind-esque voice that promotes good products and warns about bad ones is an essential part of encouraging proper business practice and competition. Wild Games Studios is a company of entertainment hacks trying to silence the loudest voices that warn the world that their product is just their used toilet paper.

I'm just disgusted, making a thread about it specifically facilitate the spread of this news so that it becomes as common knowledge as EA being a garbage publisher. Don't just read this thread, but also never shut up about it elsewhere so that this kind of horrendous business practice gets what it deserves.

10-21-2013, 08:28 AM	#1
Aldurin Lakitu Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 4,648	Made a bad game? Just call copyright strikes on any bad reviews! Escapist Article Long story short, Wild Games Studio made Day One: Garry's Incident and managed to distribute it after a failed fraudulent kickstarter (the CEO tried inflating pledge total to fake popularity) and getting through Steam Greenlight via promising Steam keys to people who voted for it. People discovered that it was shit, Totalbuscuit was one of the people thrashing it and the studio called copyright strike to shut it down, despite ignoring other reviews and LP footage and having blatant documentation around about them giving an OK for people to upload videos of their content. The big deal? Youtube shuts down channels that get three copyright strikes at once, and this can automatically be assigned, even bypassing agreements with networks to prevent this sort of problem. Removing this taint after three strikes is more or less impossible, with only a few channels like TheSw1tcher recovering through the ungodly clout of the top networks, so suppressing a review in this way is a very vicious abuse since it's a nail in a coffin with only three nail holes. It also suppresses internet speech and damages consumerism, as the hivemind-esque voice that promotes good products and warns about bad ones is an essential part of encouraging proper business practice and competition. Wild Games Studios is a company of entertainment hacks trying to silence the loudest voices that warn the world that their product is just their used toilet paper. I'm just disgusted, making a thread about it specifically facilitate the spread of this news so that it becomes as common knowledge as EA being a garbage publisher. Don't just read this thread, but also never shut up about it elsewhere so that this kind of horrendous business practice gets what it deserves.