this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2024
273 points (92.8% liked)

Games

32654 readers
2074 users here now

Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.

Weekly Threads:

What Are You Playing?

The Weekly Discussion Topic

Rules:

  1. Submissions have to be related to games

  2. No bigotry or harassment, be civil

  3. No excessive self-promotion

  4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts

  5. Mark Spoilers and NSFW

  6. No linking to piracy

More information about the community rules can be found here.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They did ask Valve:

Though Valve didn’t respond to my requests for comment

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If every news outlet avoided a topic because the company wouldn't outright confirm its existence, we would never have reporting based on leaks and rumors. That's dumb and would make journalism worse for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It wasnt a rumor or hearsay but literally breaking a gentlemans NDA.
I havent played it but as I heard they requested not to show it and the journalist supposedly recorded whole gameplay and wrote about it?
Seems like a clear deal to me to cut of and ban his account for breaking an agreement for early access.

Reporting about leaks and rumors is totally fine. But that's like being the primary reporter of a whistle blower

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

"Gentleman's NDA" is not a thing. It's either a legally-binding NDA or it's not. It's within Valve's right to ban him from the game but saying the game shouldn't be covered at all is silly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It is. It's called Trust.

If I call you a friend and tell ypu something confidential I trust you to not talk about with someone else and you do regardless, I will quit the friendship.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

Game publishers are not your friend.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

They have the same attitude I have to tech support tickets.

If I call and the user doesn't answer then I guess the issue is fixed isn't it? Ticket closed.