Digital Homicide have been in the news recently for filing lawsuits not only against Jim Sterling but also against Steam reviewers, and now co-owner James Romine has discussed the impact of recent events, including Valve's decision to remove their games from Steam.
Talking about the case against Sterling, Romine said that the "case waits for dismissal decision. No other comment on this." He also defended the company regarding the harassment lawsuit, saying that the only reason they dropped it was because of "financial reasons caused by the removal of our games. I believe the case was very solid. There were in excess of 140 false statements by the 11 steam users, tens of thousands of posts harassing myself and my customers, three direct interference with written contracts with third parties by steam users (some of which were competitors), and much more. A combined in excess of 25 reports were filed against the worst users of the 11 with no resolutions being found."
"Then I get labelled as hostile for defending my few customers that speak English. We've received a lot of bad emails but there's been in excess of fifty positive emails over the past year more than a few from non-English speakers. Supporters would like to talk publicly but they don't want to be harassed, which I understand."
Romine also indicated that Digital Homicide had been severely damaged. "It's destroyed. It's been stomped into the ground from a thousand directions and use is discontinued. I'm going back into the work force and watching what's really going on. Not gaming media gossip - the real stories are in the legal documents. Not talking about mine."
"We weren't some evil censoring dudes. If someone didn't like the game they could leave a bad review and refund - no hard feelings here at all. I was even rebuilding Forsaken and the single player was about 1/3 finished. Construction, inventory was all wrapped up and I was working on a strategy aspect. Those customers will now never see it. I expect random trolls showing up - no big deal. I'd even leave their stuff there if it wasn't too vile. The real problem was reoccurring returning attackers for in some cases 20 months. I'm a stationary target as a store front. I can't just log out and not come back. When that started getting aimed at customers is what triggered the case."
Talking about the situation as a whole, though, he claimed that the media had given them bad press. "We may have been painted in a negative customer light by gaming media, truthfully we've been fighting for lower prices and a more open market - which to me is the most important thing for consumers."
What do you think about Romine's opinions on the matter?