The german videogame site 4players.de reviewed the new 'Alone in the Dark' game and gave 68%. As we know that's quite a low score and influences your decision to buy the game or not. 4players said that 'Alone in the Dark' has a lame story and bad dialogue besides some technical issues like clipping and shitty artificial intelligence.
Atari wasn't happy to hear that and decided to threaten 4players to force them to take the review offline. Atari even says that the review is based on a pirate downloaded version and is only set online to make profit through clicks. Atari wants to sue 4players about 50.000 € if they do not take the review offline.
Of course 4players didn't take it offline and 4players didn't test some half baked leaked beta internet shit, they tested the final retail version.
This is a shame. And this is really foolish, Atari, cause we live in times of the internet and soon the whole world will know about your mafia methods.
I don't know if the game is really that bad, but Atari pretty much proved that with their behaviour.
Kotaku's article about the topic.
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7 comments:
may you rot in hell, Atari.
Rot. in. hell.
The comments entered by the author just proves he is an idiot.
If they reviewed a pirated version then Atari has the right to sue.
Thanks for your comments. ;)
It's sad that the game review scores have inflated so much that 68% is seen as worth suing for.
"If they reviewed a pirated version then Atari has the right to sue."
No they don't, you idiot. There's nothing illegal per se about reviewing a pirate copy - copyright laws include specific exemptions for purposes of review/public interest. Atari would have to prove that (a) the reviewed copy was substantially different from the retail one, and that (b) it was different in ways that the review explicitly penalised it for. Which both seem very unlikely from the information currently available.
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