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Don't know why you're getting crushed for this. It's not even just about this particular game; one of the major players in the largest entertainment industry on the planet is doing something highly unusual. That's in the public interest.
Lemmy users should know better, too, as The Verge was one of the leading reporting outlets on what happened on Reddit last year. Adversarial tech journalism is part of what they do.
Adversarial journalism is always spun as "journalism out of line" when this is the foundation of all journalism.
Yeah that's a fair point. I was mistaken thinking it was an actual eula they bypassed because valve didn't make it so you couldn't just close it, but it's not in any way legally enforceable. I thought at least it was one of those grey "technically correct but obviously an unintended loophole" kind of things, but they literally just said "pls don't tell". I'm mostly thinking that risking the connections you might have to valve aren't worth a scoop on a game still in what seems to be alpha or closed beta, but if I were valve I really don't think they can be that mad, everything the verge did was basically fair game if they were fine with a game ban.
I guess when I think of public interest I think of stuff like reddit selling user data without consent, or games using manipulative tactics. It's hard to feel like it makes sense to be aggressive with something as benign as "game we don't know much about yet, smells of dota/moba" But then again I'm not a game journalist, and I stand corrected.