Valve announces TF2 Shutting Down

Raiden

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So valve just announced TF2 was shutting down and it was confirmed also by this Reddit post on the official TF2 reddit:


Sad to see the game go after 17 years and I know a lot of neb gamers will also have very fond memories of it

Rip tf2 did a short compilation of my favourite tf2 moments from through the years

 
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Interesting excerpt from the article

"Valve had discovered in late 2014 that they had lost the rights to the Team Fortress 2 trademark, which had actually fallen into EA's ownership due to a clause within their contract made for the Orange box, However no action was ever taken due to a top executive owning a backpack containing thousands of dollars worth of unusual hats.

When the sex update was rebranded to 'meet your match' however, this executive brought the trademark rights to the attention of EA's legal in a act of spite, who have been quietly battling the case since.
the closure of Team Fortress 2 is as a result of a settlement being reached, where after years of observing community behaviours, led to EA and Valve both Disowning the Team Fortress trademark and dumping the source code and item servers into a new Mexico landfill to protect future generations, according to one source this was conducted as a 'covert operation' on a Tuesday evening during steam maintenance hours, so users would be unaware and unable to intercept the team as they moved the servers offsite."