34bigthings concidering legal actions against Digital Foundry after bad analysis

[Johnw1104]

Barkley said:

Vincoletto said:
So now it is possible to also sue youtube channels because of a wrong analysis? Will someday be possible to sue a channel if they for example say " game x sucks because the weapons does not have aim assist" when in fact they had?
Will they also be able to sue reddit users that sometimes runs huge data analysys in case they are wrong? There must be a limit to those things.

Legal actions against a large commercial reviewer that presents false facts that are damaging to your product/image and thus income. Seems fine to me.

Don't think it's worth bothering with though now it's been taken down.

What Barkley said. Hopefully this is a lesson to Digital Foundry who have pretty much become the standard for technical analysis of games; it is their responsibility to show great due diligence when reporting on these games, as they really can influence perceptions and sales.

I hope now that they've pulled it both sides drop the issue, as I'm pretty sure most people who care about this sort of thing have since learned of the error. If this has hurt anyone at this point, it's likely the trust viewers have in Digital Foundry.

I still love the channel though, and I imagine going forward they'll be even more prudent about avoiding editorializing in favor of accurate technical analysis.