[H]ardOCP vs Infinium labs

[Maskirovka]

I linked to this gamespot article from bluesnews:
http://www.gamespot.com/all/news/news_6089591.html

I then read the [H]ardOCP article, and found it to be a merely invesitgative report. I'd like to see something from Infinium besides "it's false". I have lots of respect for [H]ardOCP, and I don't think they'd spend so much time on something that simply isn't true.

even the gamespot article says several media sources have questioned Infinium's business practices :\

what do you guys think?

 

[Maskirovka]

no opinions?

 

[Maxi]

I remember reading that hardocp article in september, and I don't think that they would post anything that isn't true, since they are such a credible site.

 

[Mr. Bildo]

Last time I checked, gathering publically available information and developing an opinion on it was protected under the Bill of Rights. The CEO from Infinium must really be ignorant if he thinks he can bring a civil suit against a jounalistic outlet.

Personally, I think OCP has it right on. I've seen these types before, in fact I breifly worked with one as a consultant on one of those "get-rich-quick-e-commerce" companies. They have all this independent wealth and so every dumb idea they have they can actually act on and screw a whole bunch of people in the process. Most of us don't have the resources to do that, we just turn them into hobbies or side-jobs. Morons like this build companies, fill people with false hope, and then dumb it as a loss. In the process of flushing the company, they flush a lot of peoples lives away who don't have money to throw around and a nice $3,000,000 home to go back to. (Not to mention an obviously rich mommy to hold their hand).

--Mr. Bildo

 

[Maskirovka]

Last time I checked, gathering publically available information and developing an opinion on it was protected under the Bill of Rights. The CEO from Infinium must really be ignorant if he thinks he can bring a civil suit against a jounalistic outlet.

well said...i just don't understand how they could bring this kind of suit, knowing how popular hardocp is, and expect not to receive massive backlash...especially when they didn't release any statements that contradict hardocp's claims...it just makes no sense

 

[Rilcon]

Even if that... 'thing', ever hits the market, it's gonna be a major flop. It'll be expensive (unless it's crap), buggy (yeah right every PC game will work great 'out of the box'), and short lived (developers aren't going to stop using better technology just because some obscure quasi-PC lags behind). Casual gamers will buy a console or random games for their PC, not spend $500+ on that thingy.