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
    962·
    10 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.

    • inlandempireEnglish
      28·
      10 months ago

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

    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      10 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
        28·
        10 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
        241·
        10 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
          113·
          10 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
            10·
            10 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.

            • firecat@kbin.social
              14·
              10 months ago

              Valve negatives are always being shaped into nothingness or acting like it’s normal. A stolen patient is not normal corporate behavior.

              • kattenluik@feddit.nlEnglish
                3·
                10 months ago

                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.

                • firecat@kbin.social
                  14·
                  10 months ago

                  You are the problem if you think a billion dollar corporation should steal game controllers, should not offer refunds, should locked games into locations and other criminal activity that can put you in jail.

                  • kattenluik@feddit.nlEnglish
                    3·
                    10 months ago

                    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.