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Valve issues DMCA takedown for "Team Fortress: Source 2" (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world

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Link: https://nitter.net/TeamFortressS2/status/1745157814295617767

Valve is generally supportive of mods (hell, a Portal 2 mod was just released a few days ago) but it seems like recreating Team Fortress 2 was pushing it... Really sad, honestly. I really hope Valve would just strike a deal with these devs and make it official rather than throw away the insane amount of effort they put into re-building TF2.

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[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago

Seems like they were already planning on stopping the project anyways, Valve's DMCA just happened to come while they were already deliberating on it:

While we were discussing the project's future internally recently, we already came to the conclusion to stop the development of the project due to the current state of the code being unusable anymore with s&box's recent major engine changes, and that we overall moved on from it.

Sadly, this means this DMCA takedown is the nail in the coffin. We cannot bring it back and we've hit Valve's attention, it seems like they definitely don't want us to use their IP (which is totally fair and legal from them).