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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 [email protected] to c/retrogaming
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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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[–] [email protected] 56 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 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It was Scorpions that went after Napster, no?

[–] scottywh 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

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[–] dezmd 4 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.