this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2024
201 points (86.8% liked)

Games

32305 readers
684 users here now

Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.

Weekly Threads:

What Are You Playing?

The Weekly Discussion Topic

Rules:

  1. Submissions have to be related to games

  2. No bigotry or harassment, be civil

  3. No excessive self-promotion

  4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts

  5. Mark Spoilers and NSFW

  6. No linking to piracy

More information about the community rules can be found here.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Another article that highlighs inherent flaws in the American legal system. How can this potentially be an actual lawsuit? How can "journalists" even entertain reporting on this?

Honestly I'm just posting to laugh at my fellow lemmings responses and watch see how the plaintiff is roasted for not gitting gud.

But, there is a real conversation here around continued ignorance of game development and the value of difficult games as a value proposition. Afterall, the person attempting to sue from did choose to purchase the games willingly knowing they're not for scrub casuals like themselves.

What do you all think, is difficulty gating content a real issue? Should dev's have some kind of legal requirement to appease players that can spec a build properly? Is it Thursday and I'm just looking for some easy laughs at a morons expense?

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

there's a guy on 4chan who's planning to sue Fromsoft

Lol, no. There's a guy on 4chan who's saying wildly outlandish shit in order to have a laugh at anyone who takes it seriously.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

In America, you can sue anyone for literally anything.

Doesn't mean you'll win, but it's basically a highly enshrined natural right that only the rich can make best use of.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

People can sue for whatever reason they want, but that doesn't mean a court will entertain it. I'm sure whatever judge this is put in front of will dismiss it immediately.

As for the difficulty discussion. Not all games are made for all players, and that's OK. If it's too hard for you, play sometime else. Soulsborne games do not need difficulty settings, and I'm glad they don't.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I refuse to believe this is real.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I'm convinced that FromSoftware has the biggest weirdos as their fanbase. I never played a FromSoftware game before elden ring, and i wish i would've just played the game and never looked at forums or wherever they throw up their opinions. Before i bought the dlc i watched a video that was titled something like: the elden ring dlc is really bad or something like that. The video had a ton of views and a lot of people seemed to agree, so i watched it, because i wasn't sure if i should spend the money or not. The video made me actually mad because of how absolutely stupid it was. The brain-dead dude even got mad because of the word "scadutree" "Yeah what is that, i'm pretty sure it's supposed to be called shadowtree, they can't even get that right." These guys have some sort of disability where they can't enjoy the game if they use anything but a stick as a weapon.

Imagine someone complaining about DOOM because it's too hard, and you go:"i don't know, once you get the plasma cannon... "I DON'T USE THE PLASMA CANNON, I ONLY USE THE STARTER PISTOL, WHY DO THE DEVS MAKE THE GAME SO HARD? SHOTGUNS ARE FOR BABIES JUST PISTOL.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Git...

...it for PC and cheat. That's what I did.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm suing you for cheating.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I'm countersuing for emotional distress due to a frivolous lawsuit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

If only they realised that no one cared that they beat the game with only a club without upgrading it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I agree with the general sentiment of my fellow commenters, however, coffee is hot, and there are labels on the coffee stating that because of a lawsuit like this. What a interesting precedent to games will this set. How you put a disclaimer in a game stating it's difficulty level? Compared to what?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Plaintiff will have to prove some form of legally enshrined harm has occurred.

I can't imagine what kind of results from not winning due to difficulty that may be appealing to a judge as a form of 'damage'.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Emotional trauma? Discrimination? Ableism? With this games accessibility has been the ongoing issue, they could argue around that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Significant uptick in fools to block today on lemmy.

It feels like reddit 2015 up in here.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm suing Twister for my inability to be flexible

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I'm suing Pornhub for my carpal tunnel.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

What a joke. Git good, /v/ user.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is like suing an MMO because you want to solo raid dungeons so you can enjoy the content without having to play multiplayer.

Don't get me wrong, their opinion is fine. But the lawsuit is idiotic. Just do what the rest of us do when we're screwed over by circumstance and choices: build a bridge and get over it.

The only circumstance I could see a "too hard" lawsuit maybe possibly hypothetically working out is if the customer was disabled. They might have a slim chance if they could use the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) to sledgehammer the game developer with. I personally don't believe it would work, but I'm not a lawyer so what the hell do I know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Pretty sure people have actually sued MMOs over group content, several times if I recall.

None of them won, of course.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I don’t even think the ‘too difficult’ crowd will get behind this person. What an insanely stupid thing to try and pull off.

And if it is successful, all it will do is harm the gaming industry into hegemony.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'd say it's absolutely insane that someone might actually be able to take the creators of Elden Ring to court over the fact they're not good enough to beat a game intentionally made to be hard. I imagine they're the same people who would try and sue Sintendo over a Mrio Mker level that they can't beat first try.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

The article is using as a source a 4chan post that had a docket number that didn't check out. I'm pretty sure this is a joke someone took seriously because they needed to publish something today.

This would get almost immediately dismissed by any judge.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

I the US you can sue anyone for anything. You'll lose for stuff like this post, but you can do it all you want. The fact anyone is reporting on this is the issue. It should be ignored.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Psst! Your censors are making italics! Add a backslash to both of them to m*ke it w*rk.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the heads up. This whole text formatting thing can be annoying.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago

You can file a lawsuit about just about anything. It doesn't mean it's going anywhere.

load more comments
view more: next ›