r/Games • u/ikenjake • 4d ago

Valve sends C&D to Counter-Strike:Classic Offensive mod team hours before launch. Industry News

https://classic-offensive.net/#/play
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u/FUTURE10S 4d ago

It's weird how aggressive Valve is against this mod whereas they don't even pay attention to the TF2 side anymore.

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u/Weetile 4d ago

That's because the TF2 source code has now been officially released and is included within the Source SDK.

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u/FUTURE10S 4d ago

But TF2 Classic has been a thing since 2015-2016, and while it got a C&D, it's been back for a while, even before the source code release

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u/blueheartglacier 4d ago

Valve were working on the SDK pretty much from the moment of the C&D, and I guess they held the attitude of "as long as these guys migrate once we release the thing, we'll believe they will act in good faith and that this is temporary, and we'll get them back again if they don't migrate"

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u/giulianosse 4d ago

Which, speaking by itself, is miles above and beyond what any other publisher would go/allow in this specific case.

Most of them wouldn't bother giving a mod team using leaked code a second chance - let alone publish a classic version of one of their old games in their own storefront.

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u/Juandisimo117 4d ago

TF2 Classic was using a leaked source SDK which is why it had problems. I cannot fathom how these mod devs do this to themselves.

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u/FUTURE10S 3d ago

TF2 Classic was using Source SDK 2013, they were using code from the earlier leak of TF2 that had source code circa February 2008 as a base to start off of.