‘’Core gamer’ is a nice term to flaunt around when talking about your personal habits, but it’s not a viable term for defining your audience,’ claims Steam Spy founder
Filing a false DMCA claim costs nothing, requires no proof, and can destroy an indie game's launch in minutes. Fighting back can cost tens of thousands of dollars and take weeks (if you can afford it at all).
Copyright is copyright. DMCA is a good thing that protects creators IP., revenue and usage. and you can absolutely appeal a wrongful DMCA takedown. It’s happened to me. Was easily resolved.
it's a good thing, but it's also long been reported, across a variety of industries and websites, that currently the system is ripe for and full of abuses. From fair use strikes, to matters like the one reported in this article. It's clear the law needs some tooth to punish bad actors and that parameters need to be set in how reports are filed; ie human review of said content and not some AI bot false flagging stuff. As is the system is far to easily abused by those who have motive to suppress and flag content they have no business or right to.
Until there's genuine consequences for this type of abuse, it'll keep happening across all media. DMCA is in principle a good thing, but it needs an overhaul.
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honestly it should be mandatory some of these people playing on a 10 year old laptop saying "game dont work"
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Just because those people aren't buying tons of games, doesn't mean that the term is meaningless. It just means that those people are casuals, or hardcore gamers that are dedicated to those few franchises.
Okay? It's the industry that coined the term... We just call ourselves 'gamers'.
Lol okay. Right. Lump the Facebook and Mobile gamers in with pro gamers at EVO while you're at it, why not.
this article is about mmo's or mobas. with those you want to cast the widest net you can since you rely on monthly payments. So just because a certain studio, making a certain game doesn't use the term to evaluate their audience, sure doesn't mean that "core gamers" don't exist.
I consider myself a core gamer, which i consider means that someone who plays games that aren't primarily phone or facebook etc. The main part of it though i consider is someone who is enthusiastic and closely follows the gaming industry as a hobby.
Talk about a YOU and a ME YEAH!! and the games people play.
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