Valve calls for the cancellation of fan projects ``Portal 64'' and ``Team Fortress: Source 2,'' which it has tolerated for years.
It has been revealed that Valve, which operates the game sales platform ``Steam,'' has filed a copyright infringement complaint (a counter-notification based on
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The notification from Valve was received by the fan community ``Team Fortress: Source 2,'' which was trying to make the game ` `Team Fortress 2 (TF2) '' released by Valve in 2007 compatible with a new game engine. The organization had been inactive since September 2023 due to their inability to respond to changes in the specifications of the tools they were using, but after receiving a DMCA notice from Valve, they finally put an end to their activities. I did.
According to Team Fortress: Source 2,the DMCA notice states, 'Assets from Valve's game TF2 have been used without permission, and unauthorized distribution of Valve assets without a license constitutes intellectual property infringement.' He says that this is a completely valid argument.
Sadly, this means this DMCA takedown is the nail in the coffin. We cannot bring it back and we've hit Valve's attention, it seems like they definitely don't want us to use their IP (which is totally fair and legal from them ).
— Team Fortress: Source 2 (@TeamFortressS2) January 10, 2024
Another community, Portal 64, was also forced to suspend operations. Portal 64 is another community porting Valve's game ' Portal ' to run on NINTENDO64, and developer James Lambert has been working on this project for many years, but in December 2023 It became famous after releasing the first playable demo.
Portal 64 has also been canceled following a complaint from Valve. To be precise, no official DMCA notice has been sent, Lambert said, ``We are in contact with Valve regarding the future of the project,'' and added, ``This project relies on Nintendo's proprietary libraries.'' 'Valve has asked me to stop the project because of this, and it doesn't bode well for me,' he continued, suggesting that the move was more out of consideration for Nintendo than for Valve.
According to gaming media GamersRader, Valve has a precedent for removing the Nintendo GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin from Steam because it ``may contain proprietary keys.'' In this case, Nintendo did not take any direct action, but Valve only acted with consideration for Nintendo, and GamersRader speculated that ``this time may be the same.''
Valve is relatively tolerant of fan community creations, going so far as to give the Portal 2 mod Portal: Revolution its own store page. Black Mesa , a fan-made remake of Half-Life , even allows paid sales. In response to this incident, GamersRader pointed out, ``Some amateur developers may think twice before starting their next fan project.''
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