GAME UK blackmails publishers to release games on Steam later

[BlueStar]

Seems you don't even have a basic grasp of what the accusation was in the first place.

The accusation that never happened. That's my point.
It cannot be blackmail if nothing was ever said.
Give me one scrap of proof that it happened.

The accusation did happen, it happened on the neogaf forum and elsewhere.

Nice attempt at a backpeddle, anyway. You don't refute an allegation by challenging the definition of the crime when you're maintaining the crime didn't take place anyway. You misunderstood what the accusation was (or what blackmail was), and now you're trying to pretend you didn't. Either that or you just started throwing a non sequitur about for no reason.

It's like someone saying

"This guy accused of murder, I was under the impression that murder was killing someone deliberately"
"What, so you're saying he killed him by accident?"
"Oh, what, no, I just meant he didn't kill him at all, the killing never took place. Obviously."

 

[Deleted-188346]

Seems you don't even have a basic grasp of what the accusation was in the first place.
The accusation that never happened. That's my point.
It cannot be blackmail if nothing was ever said.
Give me one scrap of proof that it happened.


The accusation did happen, it happened on the neogaf forum and elsewhere.

Nice attempt at a backpeddle, anyway. You don't refute an allegation by challenging the definition of the crime when you're maintaining the crime didn't take place anyway. You misunderstood what the accusation was (or what blackmail was), and now you're trying to pretend you didn't. Either that or you just started throwing a non sequitur about for no reason.

It's like someone saying

"This guy accused of murder, I was under the impression that murder was killing someone deliberately"
"What, so you're saying he killed him by accident?"
"Oh, what, no, I just meant he didn't kill him at all, the killing never took place. Obviously."

Sorry, wrong wording, the supposed events did not happen. The accusation happened, the actual event did not.
Anybody can make accusations, however, if there is absolutely no evidence, then nobody should just outright assume that it's true.

And you don't need to go into great detail about what backpeddling is. I wasn't backpeddling, I just didn't get my point across clearly (thus the misunderstanding with Antoligy).
I'll man up and say that I didn't exactly make that clear.

QUOTE(Antoligy @ Aug 27 2011, 07:10 PM)

And no, it wouldn't work because Amazon are actually innovating and expanding into different markets. They even have their own digital distribution setup (Amazon Appstore for Android).

EDIT: It's too early to say whether the source is reliable or not. The majority of discussions are based upon the presumption that it is indeed true.

It would work with Amazon, because Steam is still a competitor, at least for the gaming division of Amazon. Just because a company is expanding into the same territory as a competitor (and not just sitting there complaining, like Game), doesn't meant that there is no possibility that they would do what Game supposedly did.

I find this whole thread just ridiculous, that people are presuming that it's true because...a random guy said it's true.

 

[tagzard]

1:Antology you never replied to my pm.
2:This is messed up! Goo thing i live in america. The only bad thing about us is the kirfs!

 

[Toki~]

Amusing, I work at GAME and this is the first i've heard of any blackmail or dodgy dealings, plus never been told to take stock off the shelf unless we have ran out of copys to sell. Everyones welcome to their own opinion but i do think some people are getting a bit overexcited about this >.> If you don't like the place then don't shop there simple.

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

Amusing, I work at GAME and this is the first i've heard of any blackmail or dodgy dealings, plus never been told to take stock off the shelf unless we have ran out of copys to sell. Everyones welcome to their own opinion but i do think some people are getting a bit overexcited about this >.> If you don't like the place then don't shop there simple.

Did you get the memo about buying 3DS stock from Tescos? http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-03-...-3ds-from-tesco

 

[Toki~]

Nope not really but the point i was making was - If you don't like the place then don't shop there.