Post #3479423

I am absolutely dumbstruck that dbrand didn't actually get Valve's permission to sell the companion cube Steam Machine wrapper. Leaving aside how stupid it is to spend 7 months and untold amounts of money on R&D and production hardware for a product that is literally someone else's exact IP without absolutely locking down a license to do so... I cannot *fathom* how they thought they could ever in a *million* years get away with the video they made to promote the thing without ever even mentioning the idea to Valve beforehand. (ICYMI, they had a JK Simmons sound-alike explicitly state that dbrand was acquiring Aperture Science's assets [and even had the Aperture Science logo *transform into* the dbrand logo], and in addition to the companion cube, they outright included GLaDOS (with vocals), the turrets (with vocals), and the portal gun (with portals) in the video to really, *really* make the point.) I'm pretty sure everyone thought it had to be legit because otherwise it was such a hilariously textbook case of copyright infringement that nobody in their right mind would think they could get away with it.