I already drawn the concept way before their item had been released.

Also my team already have been working on the effect before FluddGrotto made his effect as well.

Seems a little fishy to me. I'm not saying there's necessarily foul play here, but I don't want to see little devs getting picked on by bigger devs. Fludd's effect was made on October 26th and this came out a couple weeks later. For four people, that's more than enough time for something like this. Why didn't you approach them or ask about collaborating or anything like that? You guys could've talked to them first since theirs came out weeks before yours, unless that happened behind closed doors. Has Fludd reached out to you all in any capacity?

引用自 Swordmaster1984：

Seems a little fishy to me. I'm not saying there's necessarily foul play here, but I don't want to see little devs getting picked on by bigger devs. Fludd's effect was made on October 26th and this came out a couple weeks later. For four people, that's more than enough time for something like this. Why didn't you approach them or ask about collaborating or anything like that? You guys could've talked to them first since theirs came out weeks before yours, unless that happened behind closed doors. Has Fludd reached out to you all in any capacity?

Swordmaster, i appreciate your concern. Our effect was concepted and began creation approximately 3 weeks before his was posted. I was finishing up other effects and brainstorming, so that was part of the delay in all this. 2 of these people on the contributor list were in charge of promos, which took about 4 days to complete, the rest was design and particle creation on Chuck and I's part

Nobody has asked him to take his off the workshop, and we welcome the differences in his effect as well. Ultimately it is up to Valve to decide which effect is added.

This is just something that happens in the workshop from time to time, as demonstrated by the numerous "frost on body" effects you can see on the workshop. https://i.imgur.com/sHYaHhQ.png https://i.imgur.com/V1ZkvY4.png

Fludd reached out with an immediate copyright claim that he then rescinded almost as fast when evidence was shown that he would have lost that court case.

If you have any other questions, feel free to respond to this post

引用自 Swordmaster1984：

Seems a little fishy to me. I'm not saying there's necessarily foul play here, but I don't want to see little devs getting picked on by bigger devs. Fludd's effect was made on October 26th and this came out a couple weeks later. For four people, that's more than enough time for something like this. Why didn't you approach them or ask about collaborating or anything like that? You guys could've talked to them first since theirs came out weeks before yours, unless that happened behind closed doors. Has Fludd reached out to you all in any capacity?

Fludd did contact the team about us copying his item, we have already have sorted things out with Fludd so things have been dealt with.

I appreciate that you are looking out for others on the workshop, we would have added him as a contributor for our effect, but we felt like our effect is quite different from his effect so we didn't include him.