I'm confused, who's Team17 guys then?
Team17 are the ones who made WA. They had secure login servers with ranks and all. They got hacked. Team17 lied to us for years telling us they were bringing the secure wormnet servers back. That never happened.
Team17 then released WWP at a full boxed price. Claimed they built WWP from scratch. WWP was proven to be WA, with a couple extra options, or one extra option, and lower roping frame rate.
Deadcode appeared in the scene. He was a wormer pretty much like you and me (not half as good as me, probably better than you, at least, in T17, ironic, I know). Deadcode gained a reputation by backwards engineering Worms. Team17 allowed him to work on the beta updates. Allowed him as in, let him, not paid him. Cybershadow appeared a bit later and was allowed to join forces with DC. For long periods of time, CS took most of the work load. Since then they're "working" together to release these updates, they do this as a hobby.
Team17 doesn't give two flying f@#!s about WA, but since we're lucky enough to have DC and CS amongst us they at least allow them to do this.
TL;DR
team17 sucks, dc and cs rule
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