Except this is a game industry reputation ruined. It isn’t just valve, why would any dev ever give the verge access again knowing that they will not only disrespect your requests but bitch and moan if you hold them to it.
It’s a full rep killer. They will never have early access again for any company.
Strykker@programming.dev 3 months ago
The so what is that this writer for the verge will likely never be trusted with NDA type pre-release access for any other games going forward, and this may even impact all of the Verge.
This isn’t just a one and done kind of issue, this will be seen by the entire industry as a “can’t trust that guy with pre-release access”
SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The Verge isn’t pulling the article and they are currently backing their journo. The whole site is blacklisted at this point.
corbin@infosec.pub 3 months ago
They didn’t get an NDA.
Strykker@programming.dev 3 months ago
Sure they don’t have any trust from the industry anymore.
It doesn’t have to be a legal document for there to be consequences.
corbin@infosec.pub 3 months ago
The rest of the industry uses embargo agreements with mutual consent if they have private information. This doesn’t change anything for other game companies, unless they also want to do private-but-not-private beta tests.
glitches_brew@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Sure, and they proved that they won’t respect valves wishes unless legally required to do so. Valve is now in a position where if they want to do future play tests they will have to manage NDAs for everyone which is probably more trouble than it’s worth. The general population is now less likely to get an opportunity like this because the verge wanted to get some easy clicks. It’s pathetic of them to sell us out like this.
timestatic@feddit.org 3 months ago
He didn’t sind an NDA tho