billothekid2@kbin.social to RetroGaming@lemmy.world · 11 months agoThat Portal 64 demake we liked so much has been kiboshed by Valve: 'They have asked me to take the project down,' creator sayswww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1231arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1228arrow-down1external-linkThat Portal 64 demake we liked so much has been kiboshed by Valve: 'They have asked me to take the project down,' creator sayswww.pcgamer.combillothekid2@kbin.social to RetroGaming@lemmy.world · 11 months agomessage-square39fedilinkfile-text
Honestly, a bit surprised by this. It wasn’t even on Steam. Hopefully switching to an open source SDK will get this back up.
minus-squaredual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·11 months ago“Hey, don’t use code for our dead game console we stopped manufacturing 22 years ago and don’t support anymore!” Who gives a fuck, Nintendo?
minus-squareA_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-210 months agoIt wasn’t Nintendo, it was Valve taking preemptive action because of how Nintendo has acted in the past… It’s unfortunate, but it’s pretty reasonable given how Nintendo is.
minus-squareverysoft@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 months agoNintendo could benefit greatly by just allowing these kind of projects, but that would be out of character and we can’t be having that.
minus-squarescottywh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoIt’s a bit like if Metallica had just embraced Napster
minus-squareFarid@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoIt was Scorpions that went after Napster, no?
minus-squarescottywh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoIt was primarily Metallica. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica_v._Napster,_Inc. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LeKX2bNP7QM
“Hey, don’t use code for our dead game console we stopped manufacturing 22 years ago and don’t support anymore!”
Who gives a fuck, Nintendo?
It wasn’t Nintendo, it was Valve taking preemptive action because of how Nintendo has acted in the past…
It’s unfortunate, but it’s pretty reasonable given how Nintendo is.
Nintendo could benefit greatly by just allowing these kind of projects, but that would be out of character and we can’t be having that.
It’s a bit like if Metallica had just embraced Napster
It was Scorpions that went after Napster, no?
It was primarily Metallica.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica_v._Napster,_Inc.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LeKX2bNP7QM