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.

  • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    It seems like it would have been a lot more friendly to have reached out personally first instead of via lawyers initially. Seems like these guys would have been receptive.

    Maybe there’s some legal reason they couldn’t, but doesn’t seem like it to me.

      • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 months ago

        I guess I don’t. I would have assumed the team would have mentioned it. Especially if there was communication, but it moved forward to DMCA request anyway (i.e. there was a disagreement or something). But seems like the team would have responded pretty quickly.

        But yeah, I don’t know for sure.

        Still, it seems way more likely that Valve legal just went straight to DMCA.