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Portal: Revolution (mod) - Trailer
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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.
They probably could've just made a more honest title like "Portal: Revolution - Official Trailer for the fan mod". The title is longer and more unwieldy, but at least it'd be very clear
Your point is worthless. Not everyone needs context hand fed at all moments, and your misunderstanding of the title is anecdotal and unique to very few people.
Edit: changed wording because it wasnt one single person making the argument
I wouldn't say worthless, that's hyperbolic, but it is far beyond necessary, just saying that it could've been clearer, definitively.
In your example where literally every detail has been changed, including the type of product being produced, that makes sense.
The video says, "Portal Revolution Official Trailer." What that says to me is "This is the official trailer" presumably released by the creator of Portal Revolution (which is a community mod).
Even in the worst possible way I can try to interpret that, calling it "manipulative" seems like a huge stretch.
If Valve somehow thinks it's the same thing as your Pokemon example, I'm sure we'll see some action taken.
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.
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?
Not my job to make your argument for you. I made my response based on what you said. If you want to reword or emphasize something relevant go ahead. Otherwise it just sounds like "No, you, um totally misunderstood me! Ya, that's it! I'm not going to tell you how though, just keep re-reading it until you agree with me!"
I did. You clearly didn't understand. Read my posts again.
Implying being creator of a popular mod doesn't open a lot of doors.
This is all you failing to understand something very simple.
It's the official trailer for the mod, that's all it means.
The fact that this thread has more up votes on the "remove the official from official trailer" posts baffles me. The first line of the description says it's a mod.
Again, it's the official trailer for Portal: Revolution. I'm really not sure what's confusing about this.
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.
Trademark is not ownership of the word. Anyone and everyone can use the word "Portal" to speak about the game, its mods, its lore, fan content, likes and subscribes, etc.
The video was originally titled in the already common pattern across all industries in the media: "Work title: Work subtitle - Official Announcement". It's honestly not hard to parse, and it does not constitute in itself any judgment on whether it's Valve's Portal or the Portal of anyone else who can and is allowed to use the name (think eg.: I write my college thesis and announce it as "Portal: Why the Game is Good - Official Announcement").
I do be fair and mention I come from the Pokémon fandom, where (until the series went into Yearly Crunch) the amount of fan content more than 7x-ed the amount of "official media" so one learns to parse announcements and titles faster. I guess I'm trained by a different internet than yours. However I don't get why you think I'm somehow "flinging insults", but I guess that just strengthens my point that elementary education should be revisited.
I changed it, thanks