A new hashtag calling for Valve to "save TF2" trends following a DMCA takedown notice issued regarding Team Fortress 2 fan remake TFS2.
  • @[email protected]
    68•11 months ago

    …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

  • @[email protected]
    14•11 months ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
    2•10 months ago

    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.

    • BigFig
      27•11 months ago

      How DARE they…checks notes protect the IP that they created, own, and are still running

      • @[email protected]
        10•11 months ago

        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.

      • @[email protected]
        -3•11 months ago

        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

        • ThunderingJerboa
          7•11 months ago

          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.

        • @[email protected]
          1•10 months ago

          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)