On today’s episode of “This shouldn’t be legal”…
Hmm… A perfectly neutral review with a share of the wording from the contract is nothing but factual, and I believe could be argued to be non disparaging?
Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest
Submitted 6 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world
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Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
voracitude@lemmy.world 6 months ago
No, disparaging is disparaging, even if it’s warranted. But, if I were a small streamer who got a key, I would just repeat the non-disparagement clause any time I saw something obviously broken.
They can stop me saying anything negative but that doesn’t cover body language (they might try to sue but they wouldn’t ever be able to prove it to the degree required unless I had posted something like this explanation, and even then it’s dicey), and I don’t see anything in there about a minimum number of positive sentences of words to hit. God help these chucklefucks if they ever run into a Djinni or a cursed monkey’s paw.
Blxter@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Could be wrong but this does not sound sound outlandish for a alpha. There should be no point to ruin a name/brand before it is out. You should not leave a “review” of a unfinished product.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
If the product is unfinished, why is it being released to the public, in any capacity?
If they want to playtest and find bugs in their unfinished product, they should do that. By paying a QA team and playtesters, not by trying to dupe streamers into generating free advertisement.
Blxter@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
You have never played an early alpha of a game and signed a NDA to not disclose it I did this with many games the finals, th division heatland, x defient, arc raiders etc. although in those case since there are yt videos and streams seems a little weird. I was uneducated the games I am talking about when I played had watermarks on them and were made for testing etc had no idea the game was like viewable. In this case it looks more like if tarkov or an EA game said you can’t leave reviews
Spaceinv8er@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
This is just my opinion but most comic book based games suck anyway.
dandroid@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I think we should rename this community “gaming controversies” because that’s all that’s ever discussed here.
Vespair@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I’m just curious, what exactly would you prefer to see here? I don’t think this community is specific controversies, but I do think it is, and rightly so, mostly focused on gaming discussion rather than just games. And contentious topics are simply famously those which cause and often merit the most discussion.
Would you prefer instead if all of the posts were simply “How Great Is God of War?” followed by a chain of comments saying nothing but agreement?
blazeknave@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m excited about the Paradox sale this weekend. Haven’t seen that mentioned anywhere on Lemmy🤷
InquisitiveApathy@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I was in his stream when people sent him the contract they signed just to get the key. Wild. The game is janky looking as fuck so they definitely know how bad it is.
_sideffect@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Aww, the Devs feelings might get hurt
voracitude@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The developers of the game had zero input on this. They’re developers; this is a contract which would be written by lawyers, directed by management. The same management who force crunch on the devs you want to blame. Learn to recognise the enemy, please and thanks.
_sideffect@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Management is part of the development team… Developers doesn’t just mean programmers.
A director of a project is still management, but also a developer.
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Nah, this is a pathetic attempt to get free ads from games journalists without any downsides
badbytes@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Don’t worry folk’s. We pay taxes so that the FTC and FCC gotz our backz broz.
Emerald@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Do they have our back though?
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 6 months ago
Does the contract also require a review to be made at all?
NOOBMASTER@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Iron Man is shooting green lasers? wtf?
JCreazy@midwest.social 6 months ago
It’s one of the reasons that nobody says anything bad about the product that their sponsor provided to them. Either that or people don’t want to ruin their relationship with their sponsors so they will talk highly of a product even if it isn’t good.
IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 6 months ago
No satire either??
So you can say nothing but praises for the game, but if they detect sarcasm, you’re STILL getting sued?