cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/758234
This is such a shame, it is such exceptional work… Hopefully switching engines will allow the project to continue.
because it “depends on Nintendo’s proprietary libraries.”
At first I was a bit disappointed in Valve, but this really clarified some things. Valve is legit scared of litigation with Nintendo, which is 100% a thing I would expect any company to be scared of.
I mean, it’s one thing to fan remake a single player game from a decade ago in a very different way, and a very different thing to remake a live Multi-player game made in basically the same engine.
One of them (the Portal demake) used Nintendo’s proprietary code/libraries without permission, prompting a request to take it down, the TF thing ripped off Valve’s assets without permission and redistributed them, which got a DMCA. If you see this and think “Valve is out taking down everything they can like Nintendo” you really missed something.
For the record: the commenter I am replying to has shown over and over to be very rude and every comment for as far as I can see scrolling down for quite a while is something negative about Valve even when it’s simple facts like what they replied to this time.
I wouldn’t dare say take anything they say super seriously, and we of course do all know that Valve is still just a company.
They’re explained and what gets marked as normal means normal for what their goal towards the general public seems to be, you just look like an insane person with what your profile looks like.
All of those things sounds like conspiracy theory talk to me because none of what you said is strange.
There’s no stealing a controller design and there never has been, they offer refunds in their exact terms which everyone knows and the locking games in locations (if true) is 100% controlled by the person who put the games on Steam.
A similar thing happened with dolphin emulator when they tried to release on Steam i think
I wouldn’t say it’s legit scared.
More like, why? Why fight on behalf of some random person who doesn’t have a history with Valve?
Why would anybody risk an extremely long drawn out and expensive lawsuit because of a nobody who has a really cool demo?
