Impossible copyright infringement of the derivative of the stolen generic. Love it.

Weak moral compass

The ai cpu fins being perpendicular to the fan airflow is lol

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?

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?

But… Hear me out… What if…

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.

Consequences, when?

Commendations on the shop. Very clever.

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.

Probably the most not-the-onion headline I’ve ever read. My brain keeps trying to illustrate it as comedy to explain it to myself in my mind.

My brain’s conclusion?

Jesus fucking Christ, I’m so tired.

GO BACK TO EUROPE YOU PALE, TERRITORIAL CHEESEWHEATS

edited to add specificity

Still worth playing in 2026? I have it and never played. I just have a hard time pulling the trigger (no pun intended) and starting to play mms’s. And that’s even with all the old guard game reviewers like tb praising it, which is why/how I own it in the first place. It just sits uninstalled in my steam library and I think about it every few years.