Comments on: Win GAME1, Receive A Royal Shafting

By: Matt Burgess

Matt Burgess — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:51:41 +0000

@A Gamer: I'm pretty sure you're working for AutoSalon or someone involved there. In which case I suggest you look into defamation law more thoroughly. You can't sue someone for the truth. You can't even sue someone for being wrong if they had reason to believe it was the truth.

It interests me that the immediate response we got was to threaten to sue, rather than promise to pay.

By: Logan Booker

Logan Booker — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:34:02 +0000

@A Gamer: If you follow the link through to the Australian Gamer article, you'll find a lot more than just hearsay.

By the way, you're not from AutoSalon are you? Because I'd be more than happy to have a chat! Feel free to email me if you'd like to discuss the details, or even better, get in contact with Starks.

By: A Gamer

A Gamer — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:38:59 +0000

What supportive evidence does this article bring with it? Oh hearsay of course, yet you claim a royal shafting by Auto Salon. Looking forward to the defamation case Kotaku.

By: andy wells

andy wells — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:19:53 +0000

I’m also on their case…see if i can get an answer.

By: turkletin

turkletin — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:19:11 +0000

I'm not surprised this happened again. The mention of no issues with prizes at the 2006 Game1 event isn't entirely accurate. I helped run a 100 player LAN at that the 2006 event and we had huge problems with getting prizes out to winners after the event. The cash wasn't so much an issue as that was sorted shortly after. The main problem we had was with the prizes donated by Altech computers. We we're told by Autosalon we'd have the prizes to give out at the event only to find out during the event that wasn't the case.

When we finally got a contact at Altech to work with on getting the prizes sorted which was about 1 1/2 months after the event, it was a little easier as they we're really helpful. The prizes didn't actually get out to the winners until mid January which was far too long to be waiting in my opinion. I can't comment on the 2007 event as I wasn't involved at all but we found overall there seemed to be a serious lack of communication and organization of the event on Autosalon / Game1's part. I would have thought a lot of those issues might have been sorted out for the following years event but apparently not.

You can get a bit more of an idea of what was happening at the time from this thread:
http://roystontech.com.au/game1/viewtopic.php?t=44