this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2024
414 points (97.3% liked)

RetroGaming

19576 readers
807 users here now

Vintage gaming community.

Rules:

  1. Be kind.
  2. No spam or soliciting for money.
  3. No racism or other bigotry allowed.
  4. Obviously nothing illegal.

If you see these please report them.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Xylinna@lemmy.world
Tenthrow@lemmy.world
gts@lemmy.world
414
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
112 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Honestly, a bit surprised by this. It wasn't even on Steam. Hopefully switching to an open source SDK will get this back up.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Valve is actually one of the companies that treats fan projects very well

Well, not this fan project…

[–] Zorque@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, but one example does not define everything.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

No, but one example does not define everything.

Before the announcement of Counter-Strike 2, a hobbyist team made a prototype of CSGO in Source 2. Then Valve made them stop. Same with TF:Source2 now.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 months ago

Yes, but Valve didn't block it based on their own IP. The focus really should be on the fact that Nintendo is so litigious. This was a fan project of a non-Nintendo IP. Their reputation is preceding them.