Valve is historically terrible at communicating what is and isn't okay, but this shouldn't be a surprise to the devs after they took down the fan-made TF2 remake.
this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2025
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They got approved by the same valve for steam greenlight though
Yeah, I also don’t think it’s terribly crazy for a company like valve to protect its IP when it’s being directly copied. Valve has also traditionally been very good about reaching out to these sorts of devs and making deals with them
Except for when they're extremely bad at doing this and use it as a weapon, such as what they did with TF2C.
Yup, while keeping their mouth shut works for a lot things, it is awful for many others.