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Valve takes down Team Fortress Source 2 Project.

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JonathanDoe

When It comes to games there's a group of people that thinks every game has an "end of date" and there's the other sector that wants to keep games alive, they have the skills and there's still a player base.

Has Valve implemented something new to this IP? Yes, It's old but It's still good just like Left 4 Dead. These are games every Steam account will have at some point.

I'm not familiar with Team Fortress that much, but It really sucks that every effort for keeping games fresh get screwed by the IP Owner.
I still don't understand why Valve doesnt hire them.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWVY7bCadAE

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ormax3

The DMCA notice: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2024/01/2024-01-10-valve.md

The original copyrighted work is Valve's game Team Fortress 2. The TF2 assets have been ported to Source 2 without permission and are being redistributed by Amper Software in a game mode for Facepunch's S@box. Facepunch has not licensed any Valve assets for S@box. The unauthorized porting and redistributing of Valve's assets without a license violates Valve's IP.

They are distributing TF2 assets without permission, hence the takedown.

You see in open source "port" projects like this they typically don't distribute the assets themselves, instead they re-implement the engine as a drop-in replacement, and the user who downloads it and wants to play has to bring their own "game files". The engine either loads them as is, or provides some sort of converter/patcher. The important part is that the licensed assets are never distributed with the fan-made project.

Examples include devilutionX (Diablo), OpenLara (Tomb Raider), ScummVM (retro adventure games), ZDoom (Doom), EDuke32 (Duke Nukem), OpenRA (C&C), OpenTTD (Transport Tycoon), OpenRCT2 (RollerCoaster Tycoon 2), CorsixTH (Theme Hospital), etc. These are all perfectly "legal" and above board.

Also I remember a massive TF2 leak not long ago which basically included every asset in the game ever (unreleased ones too), perhaps they used stuff from that too, which didn't sit well with valve:

https://www.pcgamer.com/biggest-leak-in-valves-history-includes-pretty-much-everything-from-portal-tf2-and-half-life-2/

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Pe4enie

Very informative remark, thank you. I don't see how people think Valve is in the wrong here.

3 months ago
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JonathanDoe

Thank you. I didn't checked the DMCA notice last night. I don't know, seems like Valve would still find the way to delete that project, It's funny that they waited 3 years for the DMCA, maybe they wanted some free beta testing, people are saying Valve could release the Source 2 version at some point. That TF2 leak is huge and who knows if they used something. It's their IP after all, they take a lot of time for upgrading. The L4D2 playerbase was so excited when the last update with the new mal came out (no big deal tbh).
Also, thanks again for naming all those other projects. I've only played ZDoom time ago.

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wigglenose

sad but they did break copyright law ( lucky it was only a take down and not getting sued for Millions)

3 months ago
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Ekaros

Should have just made TF 3... And diverged from TF2 by following originals, but with Source 2 engine.

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Closed 3 months ago by JonathanDoe.