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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PonyOfWar@pawb.social 5 days 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.
dicksteele@lemm.ee 5 days ago
ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days 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 4 days 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 days ago
That would make sense, if true.
PonyOfWar@pawb.social 5 days ago
I’d be curious to see that if you still have the link. The mod devs state in their FAQ that they’re not using any leaked code, but of course it’s always possible that they’re lying.
MrGabr@ttrpg.network 5 days ago
Here, though there isn’t anything super concrete.