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

Wait but why is Valve involved at all, then? Not like it's their fault that some people they have nothing to do with are building a game based on those APIs, so shouldn't Nintendo approach the developers of the port directly instead?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Valve holds the copyright to Portal, so Nintendo probably just "encouraged" them to pull some strings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Nintendo probably just “encouraged” them to pull some strings.

Nintendo have their own litigation-happy lawyers. With the exception of the Portal Collection release for Switch, both companies have nothing to do with each other.

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

Nintendo sues everyone they encounter in the faintest context of their IP with the power of a thousand suns. See also, the failed launch if Dolphin on Steam. Valve is justifiably cautious here.

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

Valve is justifiably cautious here.

Valve doesn't distribute the port.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Doesn’t matter

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Doesn’t matter

If fact it does for the claim that Nintendo would sue Valve otherwise.