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The Portal: Prelude Website indicates they are no longer supporting this Portal modification. They say there's a problem with the mod and the free version of Portal, saying to ask Valve if you have a problem "because it's their entire fault." This is not the only corporation to disappoint them, as they add: "This website itself is no longer maintained since Google dropped most of the features of Blogger in May 2010 and we can't update it anymore without a major overhaul." Thanks Ant.
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Valve doesn't have to piss in its free lunch. |
May 23, 2010, 15:15 |
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Beamer wrote on May 23, 2010, 13:46:
How many companies allow you to use the SDK or a mod without owning the full game? You are wrong. All of those games except one do allow someone to acquire and use the SDK without owning the full game or at least don't use DRM to prevent one from acquiring and using it as Valve does. The SDK for UT3 only comes with the game, but as you pointed out the UDK is freely available. Plus, during the free weekend trials of UT3, its SDK was freely obtainable and usable since the game itself was.
Valve does the same thing. Don't see how it's different. It's different because Valve actually enforces any similar "paper" restrictions of the others with DRM that prevents the SDK from being acquired and used without purchasing the game. It's also different because Valve is the only one to put actual mods behind a distribution and DRM lock like Steam as well.
Arguably that could open a window where someone could have created a hot new mod that no one had to pay for. First, your "no one" claim is ridiculous because the free Portal promotion is for a limited time (it ends tomorrow) so there is a limit to the number of people who will acquire the game for free. Second, so what if the users who acquired Portal for free during the promotion could play mods? If Valve is going to give away the game, then it should really give away the full game. It's not like Valve is hurting for money or that this will ruin its business. Finally, Valve certainly has the legal resources to shutdown any such authorized mod should that happen. It didn't need to piss in people's free lunch to do that.
Doesn't seem wholly necessary, but given what every other company does As I pointed out, no every other company doesn't do this. Valve is the first to actually enforce it.
This comment was edited on May 23, 2010, 15:41. |
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