Hello,
I'm Dan Mattia, founder and co-owner of Game Overdrive. I was forwarded this link by Game Overdrive's Public Relations Representative.
Before I begin detailing our committment to the Boycott, let me first say that Game Overdrive has a zero-tolerance policy for piracy. Piracy is a harmful act against the developers that slave over their work for many hours per day, and really needs to stop. We also can't stand malware and software that can damage our expensive game-review machines, so we have joined in the fight against Starforce.
Game Overdrive is a gaming media company started in April of 2005. With an experienced staff of gamers, writers, and other professionals, we are committed to providing accurate, unbiased news, reviews, and content to our site's visitors.
One thing we do at GO to provide this accurate content is to make sure we are never swayed by corporations whose products we are reviewing. We don't accept bribes for a good review or newspost, and we won't allow any sort of attempted alteration by companies to our content. All companies that we associate ourselves with understand this, and still continue to work with us.
Now, focusing on the topic at hand--our committment to the Starforce boycott.
Acting on the facts provided by gamers and techies regarding Starforce, Game Overdrive has announced (as provided in the link by an earlier poster) its boycott of publishers and developers using Starforce. The page providing a list of these boycotted companies can be seen
here, uploaded yesterday. Keep in mind that we had posted the original news of the boycott on February 1st.
We have also emailed every company on the boycott list asking for an explanation on their choice of using Starforce. We have receieved responses and are acting on them, but we are not disclosing the content of the emails we have sent and receieved. We are happy to say that most publishers we have contacted are happy to work with us regarding this controversial topic.
There are also two topics posted by me on
Glop.org regarding Starforce and a gamer boycott of it. These two posts can be seen
here and
here.
So before dismissing Game Overdrive, make sure you see all the facts. We're committed to working with the community, so any feedback you give us is greatly appreciated.