‘Save Team Fortress 2’ campaign explodes after Valve DMCAs fan remake
‘Save Team Fortress 2’ campaign explodes after Valve DMCAs fan remake
A new hashtag calling for Valve to "save TF2" trends following a DMCA takedown notice issued regarding Team Fortress 2 fan remake TFS2.
…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
Yeah nah, the outrage is kinda idiotic, TF2 is still getting support, the servers are running and it's making money, they have every right to DMCA that project and even the devs said that.
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.
Fuckingcapitalists
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.
How dare valve take issue with these strong independent modders lifting assets from their retail product to use in their recreation of their retail product.