Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code

Re:Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code by Ragnarork on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @05:24AM (#43100591)

> They don't have to make affordances or adjust for third party users. If they released it with no intention to play nice with the community then all they open themselves up to is criticism and bad press when they inevitably break third party users

I kinda get this but also don't get this. You can always open source something without giving any guarantees to third-party users about stability, feature requests, etc., no?

It would still be useful as just having the possibility to look into the code, and if someone want to build on top of it, then they know the context and have to accept the conditions.

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Re:Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code by motoxpro on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @09:20AM (#43102416)

But then what is the benefit to them? If the don't maintain the repo (benefit from bug fixes, features, security, etc) and it's free for people to build on, how does that make them money?

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Re:Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code by account42 on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @10:49AM (#43103371)

By having people make better mods/games that they then likely release on steam because it's very Source-friendly. Even for free games this drives more users to Steam and keeps existing users from leaving so it's a benefit for Valve.

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