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That Portal 64 demake we liked so much has been kiboshed by Valve: 'They have asked me to take the project down,' creator says (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 10 months ago by billothekid2@kbin.social to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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Honestly, a bit surprised by this. It wasn't even on Steam. Hopefully switching to an open source SDK will get this back up.

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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 121 points 10 months ago (3 children)

"Hey, don't use code for our dead game console we stopped manufacturing 22 years ago and don't support anymore!"

Who gives a fuck, Nintendo?

[–] verysoft@kbin.social 52 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Nintendo could benefit greatly by just allowing these kind of projects, but that would be out of character and we can't be having that.

[–] scottywh@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's a bit like if Metallica had just embraced Napster

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It was Scorpions that went after Napster, no?

[–] scottywh@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] dezmd@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Lars Ultrash was the most publicly outspoken and often quoted in the Record Companies PR propaganda push for the DMCA and against Napster. He came off like a greedy bitch at the time, and created the perceptions of Metallica as a cash grab sell out band more than they already were being seen as by long time fans.

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It wasn't Nintendo, it was Valve taking preemptive action because of how Nintendo has acted in the past...

It's unfortunate, but it's pretty reasonable given how Nintendo is.

[–] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Wasn’t it taken down at Valve’s request, not Nintendo’s demand?

[–] SeedyOne@lemmy.ca 34 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but mainly because Valve doesn't want to deal with Nintendo's lawyers since it used their libraries.

[–] Water1053@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

I really wish they would and set a precedent for Nintendo's anti-consumer tactics.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

Officially yes. We have no idea if Nintendo sent a private email saying "please figure this out before we do."