…It would’ve directly competed with an active game that Valve are still monetising, using the same assets, on an engine made by Valve themselves. Compare to Black Mesa: a remake of a very old game on a new engine using altered assets; and even then, Valve asked for a cut.
The outrage is undeserved. Doubly so because the devs themselves said they were stopping production anyways due to technical difficulties
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The point of the fan campaign isn’t specifically about the dmca, but moreso the apparent apathy of Valve towards the state if the game, with the item servers diving down for about two days and bots flooding official server still not having anything done to practically combat them.
Aren’t there only like 2 people who continue to work on TF2 over at Valve?
The actual numbers are vague, and knowing Valve’s “flat” structure people probably come and go whenever.
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How DARE they…checks notes protect the IP that they created, own, and are still running
That’s true, but I think people would be less upset if they were actually running it, you know? Like I fell off like legit six or seven years ago when there was a promised Heavy Update 2, and I came back a few months ago to find that that was still MIA. And that kind of inaction is kind of why fans find themselves making these kinds of projects in the first place. So this does still feel hypocritical, even if they are entirely within their rights to do it.
Tf2 has been borderline unplayable on official valve servers for the past 5 years. They cant even bother to fix the item servers in 3 days
I mean couldn’t they just still make their own “class base” shooter in S&box without the TF2 IP involved? So you get the enjoyment of those tropes while not “stepping on the toes” of Valve and out compete the game.
Edit: hell it would even let them try new and different things with the formula. Change up the look of the game maybe even bring it closer to the classic TF look.
Say what you will, I had more fun with the item servers being down than I have in many years. It felt like an unplanned community event or something to me, shit was awesome.
(Point taken that it literally only happened due to Valve being negligent though)
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Go make your own game and support it for free indefinitely 🤷♂️
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