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Half-Life 2 in a Browser

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Re: Half-Life 2 in a Browser

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Post by dminik »

crote wrote: post #31
AzzyHN wrote: post #2

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Valve already gave Half-Life 2 away for free, and released the source code of the HL1 engine. Is it technically illegal? Yeah, but Valve isn't losing out on any money, and there's no way they're going to risk the negative PR blowback they'd get for a takedown. Besides, IP law is dead. The rise of AI made it pretty clear that you can steal literally anything without consequences.

GoldSrc (HL1 engine) is very much not open source (or even source available). There's at least one open source remake (which is possibly illegal due to using the SDK) but no official release.

Re: Half-Life 2 in a Browser

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Post by firasd »

sho_hn wrote: post #18
modeless wrote: post #9

And Quake 3: https://thelongestyard.link/q3a-demo/ And Unreal Tournament: https://dos.zone/mp/?lobby=ut There's also https://noclip.website/ which, while not playable, has hundreds of levels from dozens of older games that you can explore freely. Including Half-Life 2, with more accurate rendering than this web port (which seems to be missing many shaders including character eyes).

And Tomb Raider https://eikehein.com/stuff/sabatu Fan remake of the levels to avoid asset copy, but it's a downstream of the original engine (and loads the original level files just fine), so the real game.

Ha fun--works in my regular laptop in Chrome without any CPU/GPU etc spikes

Re: Half-Life 2 in a Browser

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Post by fragmede »

m00dy wrote: post #12
albertgoeswoof wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup. I was going to finally buy half life 2 today but now I’ve seen this I guess I won’t need to. Hard times at Valve, I suppose they’ll have to find more children to start gambling with them.

looks like you forgot to add /s tag to your comment :swh

But what about the people who aren't idiots and can read sarcasm without the /s? I reflexively downvote ever comment I come across with a /s. People aren't idiots until you treat them like one.

Re: Half-Life 2 in a Browser

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Post by nadermx »

modeless wrote: post #9

And Quake 3: https://thelongestyard.link/q3a-demo/ And Unreal Tournament: https://dos.zone/mp/?lobby=ut There's also https://noclip.website/ which, while not playable, has hundreds of levels from dozens of older games that you can explore freely. Including Half-Life 2, with more accurate rendering than this web port (which seems to be missing many shaders including character eyes).

And CS: https://play-cs.com

Re: Half-Life 2 in a Browser

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Post by Ukv »

rvz wrote: post #33
londons_explore wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is up for the copyright owner to enforce or not to enforce. Until they decide, we can't know if it's illegal or not - who knows, this site might have a license.

It's quite dangerous to make unsubstantiated comments and assumptions on US copyright law without the proper research. Valve still owns the copyright to the game and just because they won't do anything now does not mean it is legal to redistribute it without their consent, especially when we know that the game is still being sold. [0] They (Valve) reserve the right to enforce that and this site clearly does not have…

> just because they won't do anything now does not mean it is legal to redistribute it without their consent

I don't think the parent comment is claiming it's legal, other than the (unlikely) chance that this is licensed, just that it's up to Valve to enforce and not really our concern. A lot of cool things (like the similar https://noclip.website/) are prima facie copyright infringement.

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