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VALVE cancelled the Counter-Strike fan mod Classic Offensive. After eight years of development and after being approved by Steam Greenlight in 2017, VALVE has ordered the developers of Classic Offensive to halt development and not release the mod.
The full story on: https://classic-offensive.net
#counterstrike #cs2 #csgo

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[-] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 16 points 1 day ago

That really sucks. I guess I can see why Valve is not so permissive when it comes to one of their major cash cows. But it seems like they handled this really poorly by initially signalling permission for the project and then deciding otherwise at the last minute and after years of work.

[-] ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 day ago

There was a separate thread on Lemmy, where someone found out Devs of CO used leaked source code of the Source Engine from 2017, hence the C&D

[-] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 5 points 1 day ago

I don’t get it. Used it for what? Why would they need leaked source engine code to make a mod for the source engine with the official SDK?

[-] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 5 points 1 day ago

That would make sense, if true.

[-] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'd be curious to see that if you have the link. The mod devs state in their FAQ that they're not using any leaked code, but of course it's possible that they're lying.

[-] MrGabr@ttrpg.network 7 points 1 day ago

Here, though there isn't anything super concrete.

[-] warm@kbin.earth 5 points 1 day ago

It sucks but CO missed its opportunity. It's a mod that's been in development seemingly forever. The main guy was constantly making side projects with no updates on CO. Another project called CS Legacy was announced recently and then all of a sudden we hear from CSCO. Apparently CSCO submitted a build in October last year though, but still, it feels like they sat on the project until something else forced them to get a move on.

[-] dicksteele@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

I’m speculating but I bet they didn’t expect so many people to care about it. With the current state of cs2 and it being so tied to them milking the skin market for money, I’ll bet someone high up said pull the plug just in case.

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