After TeamFortress2 Source, Valve takes down Portal 64 also
After TeamFortress2 Source, Valve takes down Portal 64 also
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Damn. I was just in another thread defending them for taking down that tf2 thing. But Portal64 was a very different kind of thing IMO and seemed more like a demonstration of technological capabilities rather than trying to mow Valve's lawn. I suppose it did seem to use a lot of their assets though.
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Yeah, I actually find this devastating. That game was beyond cool.
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I have to wonder if this is the work of an actual Valve representative, or if this is a fraudulent takedown notice created by a troll. Given Valve's track record, it seems vastly more likely that this is not a legitimate takedown notice.
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It seems more likely that the old Valve is dead. Making billions of dollars certainly changes things.
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The fact that it's Nintendo's IP seems the key thing here.
So did Nintendo get Valve to do this, or is Valve just covering its back from the notoriously-litigious Nintendo?
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Just Valve being Valve then.
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Pretty uncharacteristic for Valve, wonder if something changed in their legal department. In any case, what a shame. This was quite an impressive project.
It's called "Team Fortress: Source 2" btw.
Weird, why would they shut these two down but not stuff like gmod
going by the other comments on the link & elsewhere, seems to be mostly that they don't want to even remotely be in the same context as unlicensed/proprietary nintendo libraries the portal64 dev is using. (also mentioned in the the dev's own message on the screenshot)
not a clue about TF:S2 though.
edit: about the TF:S2 https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2024/01/2024-01-10-valve.md - apparently bundling and distributing their assets isn't cool.
Why would they shut down gmod? It licenses the source engine and plays by all of their rules