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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 9 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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[–] NOT_RICK 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

Well, not this fan project…

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No, but one example does not define everything.

[–] woelkchen 3 points 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 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.