9 months ago, Valve took two popular TF2 community mods offline. Today the mod teams have both decided to put their mods *back* online because Valve hasn’t responded to them since the original takedown.
Both TF2Classic and Open Fortress are mods that are built based on reverse-engineered and leaked TF2 source code which makes them non-compliant with Valve’s Software Service Agreement. In September last year, both mod teams announced their downloads would be going offline due to “an agreement with Valve”. They’ve since clarified that this initial agreement was actually that Valve would look to produce proper, official TF2 mod source code for the teams to work with to make their mods legally compliant and even have the potential to be released directly on Steam like certain mods for Half-Life and Portal (Black Mesa, Portal Reloaded, etc).
However, since that time - and after numerous attempts to contact them - Valve have seemingly not replied to the Open Fortress or TF2Classic teams. So, the community developers have decided to make both mods available again (links below to their respective websites).
It’s worth noting that *nothing has changed* and that both mods are just as equally against the Software Service Agreement now as they were 9 months ago. It’s also worth noting that the teams are willing to take their mods back offline if Valve asks them to, but even an email sent in March expressing intentions to re-launch the mods unless Valve confirms otherwise was met with silence.
*Both mod teams express no ill-feeling towards Valve and ask that the rest of the community does the same.*
So what happens now? Well of course, people get to play these fun community projects once again! But for how long? Valve might reach out and shut the mods down again at any time, or they might reach out with the TF2 source code/developer kit that was originally discussed, *or* they might just stay silent and the mods will continue to exist just like they did before ever speaking to Valve last year.
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9 months ago, Valve took two popular TF2 community mods offline. Today the mod teams have both decided to put their mods *back* online because Valve hasn’t responded to them since the original takedown.
Both TF2Classic and Open Fortress are mods that are built based on reverse-engineered and leaked TF2 source code which makes them non-compliant with Valve’s Software Service Agreement. In September last year, both mod teams announced their downloads would be going offline due to “an agreement with Valve”. They’ve since clarified that this initial agreement was actually that Valve would look to produce proper, official TF2 mod source code for the teams to work with to make their mods legally compliant and even have the potential to be released directly on Steam like certain mods for Half-Life and Portal (Black Mesa, Portal Reloaded, etc).
However, since that time - and after numerous attempts to contact them - Valve have seemingly not replied to the Open Fortress or TF2Classic teams. So, the community developers have decided to make both mods available again (links below to their respective websites).
It’s worth noting that *nothing has changed* and that both mods are just as equally against the Software Service Agreement now as they were 9 months ago. It’s also worth noting that the teams are willing to take their mods back offline if Valve asks them to, but even an email sent in March expressing intentions to re-launch the mods unless Valve confirms otherwise was met with silence.
*Both mod teams express no ill-feeling towards Valve and ask that the rest of the community does the same.*
So what happens now? Well of course, people get to play these fun community projects once again! But for how long? Valve might reach out and shut the mods down again at any time, or they might reach out with the TF2 source code/developer kit that was originally discussed, *or* they might just stay silent and the mods will continue to exist just like they did before ever speaking to Valve last year.
Who knows 🤷♂️
tf2classic.com/
openfortress.fun/
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