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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 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It was Scorpions that went after Napster, no?

[–] scottywh 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was primarily Metallica.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica_v._Napster,_Inc.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LeKX2bNP7QM

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[–] dezmd 4 points 1 year 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.