It looks like Valve doesn't want to get involved in a potential dispute between the creator of Portal 64 and Nintendo.
  • Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.worldEnglish
    772·
    8 months ago

    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.

    • inlandempire@jlai.luEnglish
      19·
      8 months ago

      A similar thing happened with dolphin emulator when they tried to release on Steam i think

    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      8 months ago

      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?

      • Darorad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        8 months ago

        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.

      • cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        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.

        • firecat@kbin.social
          0·
          8 months ago

          Just stop with the stupid nonsense Valve is in good side, no they aren’t. People’s opinion of Valve was wrong and defended them won’t change that.

          • kattenluik@feddit.nlEnglish
            1·
            8 months ago

            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.