Discussion A long-awaited Counter-Strike mod may have been quietly killed by Valve

[SpartaN]

CS:CO went into “early access” in 2016 and first went through the Steam Greenlight process back in 2017, and its long and arduous development process was coming to a close late last year. Its design goal was to use a wider range of the Source tools available in games like Portal 2 to make a return to the core gameplay experience without a focus on matchmaking, skins and gambling, mixing elements of 1.6 and CS:GO to create something unique and more community-focused. The Counter-Strike mod, penned for a 2024 holiday season release, was ultimately pushed back to early 2025, and today, it seems to have hit a dead end after the app was retired from Steam with no comment from Valve, despite previous interactions.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1877993047897600241

“The project has been sticking to the guidelines on how to release a mod on Steam, we’ve followed the requirements and recommendations to the letter, no leaked code was used, or illegal actions were taken for those wondering, we’ve played by their rules the whole time, sometimes even to the detriment of the quality of the mod.

Nobody at Valve told us to stop what we were doing during all those years, no sort of formal request, yet this feels like an even worse form of Cease and Desist at this point.

A long-awaited Counter-Strike mod may have been quietly killed by Valve, and nobody knows what’s next

Classic Offensive seems to be stuck in limbo after Valve deleted the app from Steam with no explanation.

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[Simple Minded]

Not a problem, everyone bows down to the Valve overlord.

They can do no wrong /s

 

[LuffyKOP]

They should've told Valve they can put cases and skins in it for cash- they'd bite

 

[Gooneytunes]

Old game still a classic