Comment on Valve issues DMCA takedown for "Team Fortress: Source 2"

WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He has a point here. TF2 is a F2P game that generates is revenue these days from marketplace and key transactions. If someone were to remake the entire game and it was allowed to release, it would most assuredly damage TF2’s revenue. A mod for Portal 2 has more potential to generate revenue because anyone interested in the mod that doesn’t currently own Portal 2, would have to buy the game.

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  • sosodev@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is it right to push more gambling based micro transactions in a game that lacks actual support?

    If this were any other company people would be raging

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If this were any other company people would be raging

      If this were any other company, I’d be saying the same thing. Nintendo shuts down shit left and right; most of them are mods for games that the only way to use the mods is via emulation. And it’s a lot easier to pirate a game for that than it is to dump one you own legitimately.

      It’s certainly within their right to protect their shit. The ethics and morality of what that shit happens to be is irrelevant to the copyright discussion.

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      • sosodev@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Those “updates” are pitiful. As far as I understand the vast majority of update content is still being supplied by the community. The game is still flooded by hackers with no word on when that will ever be addressed if ever.

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