WHERES MINECRAFT AND PORTAL

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BRO WHERES MINECRAFT AND PORTAL DUH IM NOT INTERESTED IN FIRE WATCH AND FRICKIN ROCKET LEAGUE this scam refunding

[Sir_Dyson]

damn

[fresh]

Originally posted by Sir_Dyson:

damn

[Tatra]

I mean, I assume Portal is in your Steam library, and Minecraft may be too if you did the whole "Add a non-Steam game to your library" thing. HTH!

[davidb11]

It was weird that they changed Minecraft and Portal out for the other two games. I never even heard of Firehawk, wtf is that?

[PlebNC (UK)]

It's probably due to copyright issues.

[davidb11]

Originally posted by PlebNC (UK):

It's probably due to copyright issues.

Unlikely, because it would have hit them before now in the original version.

[Tatra]

Originally posted by davidb11:

Originally posted by PlebNC (UK):

It's probably due to copyright issues.

Unlikely, because it would have hit them before now in the original version.

I mean, it's pretty likely that they had permission to use those IPs _in the original game_, but that those agreements were time-limited and/or didn't include a provision allowing them to use them in later versions. I am not an IP lawyer, but I can imagine that IP lawyers giving an outside entity permission to use their IP generally have all sorts of limitations as part of that agreement, and "this agreement covers this things, not a new version of the thing you make a decade from now" is likely pretty standard.

My guess, and this is just speculation, is that it's 50/50 - they wouldn't have been able to use MInecraft/Portal under their original agreement, and rather than re-negotiate a new agreement, they decided to switch it up and include different games. Gives them a bit of freedom, lets them add something new for the Ultra Deluxe version... and, frankly, lets them use games that make a bit more sense nowadays.

Minecraft, while still massively popular, has settled down to become part of our cultural background radiation rather than The Current Big Thing, and Portal hasn't had a mainline game release, or any indication one is coming, in over a decade. Firewatch and Rocket League, on the other hand, were fairly big deals just a couple of years ago - my guess is the IP arrangements were being made around that time, and these seemed like good fits.

[davidb11]

Alright. Fair enough.
I never heard of Firewatch though.

[Wet Derek]

Portal ran in source, the same as the first game, so it could be implemented easily. This version does not run in source. Also Firewatch was a massive indie title, as was Stanley Parable. Just because you played it doesn't mean nobody has. There is videos on YouTube that have 10 million views of people playing Firewatch.

[davidb11]

ALright. Fair enough.
I just never have heard of it. It's kind of weird that I missed it completely.
So weird.