The dev studio company… or their publisher.
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.
Two to beam down.
Nods at you
Just start saying gradually more and more insane stuff.
“The cutest puppy just ate my sandwich”
“Omg I just lost my exclamation point”
“The cutest puppy just ate my face”
“I just met a leprechaun”
“The cutest puppy and I just had dinner”
You need the music person too! The one that plays good music that everyone likes and is fresh, and hums or makes music themselves if there is none else.
No, Firewire400. They can’t :(
Luckily, I think Valve has some good lawyers and big companies in the USA have to be used to this sort of bullshit.
“UK wants to extort US company for taxes on a product and service literally everybody likes”
Tea time.
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”
Maybe that IS the why.
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.
Big bread over here psyoping me into eating toasted and buttered crispy steamy salty spurdough chewy bread
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 don’t really understand this, but that’s exactly what it seems like.
What even is this lawsuit? Can somebody help me understand the accusation(s)?
Because it kind of reads like “you sell games that have our music, and don’t pay us” which obviously makes no sense. Most of the article is absolute fluff.
P1: prs is suing valve.
P2: valve doesn’t have a license to… Do what? Is this extortion?
P3: prs music is on steam.
P4: valve ignores us. We want to sue them for infringing “the UK’s s20 copyright, designs, patents act 1988”
P5: musicians work hard. Prs protec.
P6: music important. Musicians important.
It gets funnier when people do everything they can to not even play them, even paying to cheat
It’s like Idiocracy and the waiting guy
https://media.tenor.com/k8VaJE8rchAAAAAM/patience-waiting.gif
Ngl, it all reads as ffmpreg now. I had to look at it like four times before it didn’t look like ffmpreg
Google, a decade late to the party.
The infernal machine devours itself.
Jesus Christ.
The Microslop train doesn’t stop. It doesn’t falter. It doesn’t slow.
Microslop gon give it to ya.
Read headline: :C
Look at image: :shrug
You know, if they didn’t have music… In games… That could be purchased through steam… Then this would make even less sense. Don’t you think?