Valve has banned developer Digital Homicide from Steam and removed its games after it sued players for giving its games bad reviews. The developer had subpoenaed Valve for the personal details of around 100 users, seeking to sue them for $18 million in damages.

It is likely that Valve will protect their users by contesting the subpoena in court. A Valve representative has already announced that “Valve has stopped doing business with Digital Homicide for being hostile to Steam.”

James Romine, one of the partners in charge of Digital Homicide, has previously brought a separate $10.7 million lawsuit against YouTuber Jim Sterling for his scathing reviews of their games, including The Slaughtering Grounds (to which the developer responded with a video berating Sterling’s complaints). He and his brother Robert also claim to have been harassed by Sterling’s followers.

Source: Polygon

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