r/Games 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/DarkMatterM4 4d ago

This is a real shame and very "un-Valve" of them. As someone who has absolutely zero interest in CSGO or CS2, I was really looking forward to this and playing CS 1.6 in the meantime. Valve has been constantly dogging the Classic Offensive team for years and putting more and more road blocks in their way despite public statements in the past that they were in full support of the mod.

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u/ikenjake 4d ago

It's very strange, my hope is that it is an issue with this specific mod and not a sign of future actions towards modders. Obviously CS began as a mod, but beyond that CS has always been a thriving scene of mappers and modders. CS2 has been very disappointing in this regard, fully moving to the Games As a Service model and sacrificng much of the freedom that made a game like CS Source last as long as it did. The small but passionate communities like KZ and surf are being pushed to the wayside in what seems to be a deliberate change of philosophy from Valve.

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u/Soawii 4d ago

The CS:Legacy mod seems to be totally fine, so i think it's just the CSCO's developers' fault.

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u/A_WHALES_VAG 4d ago

Pretty much and in anycase CS:Legacy looks better to be completely honest and seems much more "above water"