It also uses the name "Portal" in a way that feels official, too. If it said "Revolution: A Portal mod" it'd be fine.
How does it “feel official”? It’s just what a lot of mods do:
- Portal: Prelude
- Portal: The Flash Version (though this one is a standalone game)
- Half-Life: Echoes
- Half-Life: Caged
These are just a few I can think of, you can find more on Steam and ModDB.
In addition to what others have said (all those examples are equally misleading IMHO), given that its the 25th Anniversary of Half-Life, a lot of us are primed to hope for news of a new game from Valve.
Without any prior knowledge if a trailer for Portal: Prelude were released today it would be equally as confusing. The flash version wouldn't be since it would be strange for Valve to make a flash version of anything officially, so that'd set off flags, the Half-Life ones likely would be confusing as well, purely from a "released a trailer with a very clean logo and the word official in the title" standpoint, not really a general product naming standpoint, but that series is more dormant, so maybe it's less likely to be confusing.
It having official in the title has nothing to do with whether it's a Valve game or a mod, though. It just means that it's a trailer released by the developer themselves and not some random person, that's all that official means.
"official trailer" for the mod - I don't see the problem here.
The meaning is contextual.
Exactly: and it says "official trailer" — separated from the rest by a fancy hyphen just like what I have used. The context is quite clear that it's the trailer that's official, and thus the meaning is quite clear as well.
It makes me not want to play the mod for their manipulative use of the word in their advertising.
You think they're trying to trick you into
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playing a free mod?
I like how you replied without actually addressing what I said, nor emphasizing what it is I "missed". Seems kind of pointless, no?
The title and thumbnail is quite clear that it's the trailer that's official. Nowhere does it says it's a Portal from Valve. Even more there is no reason for such assumption: Valve does not hold copyrights or ownership over the world "portal" on the dictionary.
What we are seeing here is a failure to follow elementary school education.
I was surprised to see another Portal game being announced, but finding out it's a fan-made mod actually has me more interested.
Fan-mods are where you can see some neat shit because they're not trying to maximize profits, they're just trying to make something cool.
I really miss the times when mods actually were encouraged by the gamedevs. Yes there are games that still encourage modding but it's still not as widespread as it was so a couple of years after Half-life was released.
Actually just started another playthrough of Portal still alive! I just hope the cake is real this time.
mmmmmmmmm cake
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A fan made mod.
Not to take anything away from them but other than not being on an official YouTube channel I did think this was a brand new game given it says 'official'. A bit deceiving.
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