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Woah... woah WOAH I wasn't expecting to see this on HN. I've been expecting this for a long time, and if I was valve I would have done something like this a lon

Woah... woah WOAH I wasn't expecting to see this on HN. I've been expecting this for a long time, and if I was valve I would have done something like this a long time ago: release a "final" celebratory content update, port the game to vulkan, and open source the codebase (keeping the item servers and whatnot tied to valve's servers). I don't know if this is the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning of TF2. There have been leaks before but this is huge news.

Rooster61 2y ago
> Woah... woah WOAH I see what you did there
- epaga 2y ago
  Well...I don't, care to enlighten us non-insiders?
  - reportgunner 2y ago
    probably a reference to Scout or something
  - Rooster61 2y ago
    It's a line from Portal. In the final fight, GLaDOS says it in a panicked, glitchy voice while being dismantled.
HaZeust 2y ago
Beginning of the end? It's been the end for years - they're passing it off to the community, as they should! The team for TF2 is probably very low double digits now and it's almost 18 years old, it's time to outsource the continuing developments.
- Starlevel004 2y ago
  > The team for TF2 is probably very low double digits now Double digits? That's very very optimistic. It's closer to like two people.
  - HaZeust 2y ago
    Ok, well, the more the reason!
  - beeflet 2y ago
    thats more than double digits if you counting the hands at the keyboard
  - ssalazar 2y ago
    Double digits, in binary, at least
- skupig 2y ago
  The entire TF2 team was famously one guy for years
  - sophacles 2y ago
    The janitor did the best work they could... it was just too much for any one human.
subjectsigma 2y ago
In the 90’s, iD made Doom, made money off of it for a few years, and then released the source code. They then did the same with Quake. This is part of the reason companies like Valve exist today, as their early games used modified engines from Doom and Quake. Valve is now continuing that 25+ year tradition. People are still making new Doom maps and playing the game. If history is anything to go by, people could be playing TF2 in some form in the 2050’s and beyond.
- hx8 2y ago
  Except it only took 3 years for iD to release the Quake code.
guy234 2y ago
why wouldn't you expect to see this on HN?

Rooster61 2y ago

> Woah... woah WOAH I see what you did there

epaga 2y ago
Well...I don't, care to enlighten us non-insiders?
- reportgunner 2y ago
  probably a reference to Scout or something
- Rooster61 2y ago
  It's a line from Portal. In the final fight, GLaDOS says it in a panicked, glitchy voice while being dismantled.

HaZeust 2y ago

Beginning of the end? It's been the end for years - they're passing it off to the community, as they should! The team for TF2 is probably very low double digits now and it's almost 18 years old, it's time to outsource the continuing developments.

Starlevel004 2y ago
> The team for TF2 is probably very low double digits now Double digits? That's very very optimistic. It's closer to like two people.
- HaZeust 2y ago
  Ok, well, the more the reason!
- beeflet 2y ago
  thats more than double digits if you counting the hands at the keyboard
- ssalazar 2y ago
  Double digits, in binary, at least
skupig 2y ago
The entire TF2 team was famously one guy for years
- sophacles 2y ago
  The janitor did the best work they could... it was just too much for any one human.

subjectsigma 2y ago

In the 90’s, iD made Doom, made money off of it for a few years, and then released the source code. They then did the same with Quake. This is part of the reason companies like Valve exist today, as their early games used modified engines from Doom and Quake. Valve is now continuing that 25+ year tradition. People are still making new Doom maps and playing the game. If history is anything to go by, people could be playing TF2 in some form in the 2050’s and beyond.

hx8 2y ago
Except it only took 3 years for iD to release the Quake code.

guy234 2y ago

why wouldn't you expect to see this on HN?