Digital Homicide Is Out Of Business, Drops $18M Lawsuit

Well, the internet predicted it and sure enough, it came true. Digital Homicide, the notorious video game development company that has been suing people left and right is out of business. The studio was forced to drop its $18 million lawsuit against 100 Steam users as well as any plans it had of pursuing legal action against Valve.

The company filed the motion to dismiss the lawsuit that it had against the anonymous users last week, Kotaku reports, and the simple reason is because they could no longer afford a drawn-out legal battle. Their business was apparently destroyed when Valve pulled all of their games from Steam after the studio tried to force the company to share the personal information of said users.

James Romine, one-half of the Romine brothers who ran Digital Homicide spoke to Tech Raptor to explain just how much the removal of their games affected their studio. Romine stated that the financial set back was the only reason why they had to drop the case since he believed that they had a good chance of winning.

“The case dismissal was only due to financial reasons caused by the removal of our games,” Romine said. “I believe the case was very solid. There were in excess of 140 false statements by the 11 Steam users, tens of thousands of posts harassing myself and my customers, three direct interference with written contracts with third parties by Steam users (some of which were competitors), and much more.”

Digital Homicide had been the butt end of jokes circulating the internet since it started suing Steam users. The “Digital Suicide” moniker was particularly popular among critics and as it turns out, was quite apt.

As PC Gamer notes, it’s possible for the Romine brothers to revisit the case sometime in the future, since the dismissal was just partial. Naturally, they would have to raise a substantial amount of money again for the legal fees, which is going to be difficult given their reputation.