If Valve wants to be shitty about it, that’s within their right (unless they want to sue, which would be difficult to defend in court without a written legal agreement). It is also true that other outlets are free to do handshake agreements to not cover the game. The Verge didn’t break any rules, and Valve already maintains a minimal relationship with most news outlets, so not talking to The Verge probably wouldn’t change anything.
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SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 4 months agoThey didn’t break any laws, they broke trust. Random people can leak all they want, they don’t have institutional standing and respect. If what you said was true then it’d be pretty weird that every other institutional news, even gaming focused ones, have honored that request. Because doing otherwise is a dick move that kills your reputation, and the gaming industry is legendary for blacklisting for far less disrespectful moves. Downright petty with it.
corbin@infosec.pub 4 months ago
SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I see you subscribe to the moral theory of “I didn’t click okay, I hit escape”.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
even if it doesn’t, they lose consumer respect as well, I personally won’t engage verge anymore because as someone who wants to go into the development trade, it puts a bad taste of any platform to blatantly disrespect a creators wishes like that.