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Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] [email protected] 145 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Valve has made an emasculatingly large amount of money this way. Following in the footsteps of Id Software, Valve has been very open with their development tools. I don't know about the very earliest copies but the ZOMG GOTY edition of the original Half Life included its SDK on the disc. Counter Strike and Team Fortress started out as mods that Valve just...hired.

Releasing the tools to their customer base and then hiring the cream that rises to the top is a strategy I struggle to get mad at.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Thinking back, HL had a ridiculous quantity of high quality mods and TCs back in the day. Hell, Valve have even allowed HL to be remade and sold on steam.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"We'd prefer you didn't use the word "Source" in the game title. You wanna sell Black Mesa on Steam?"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Only a corporate officer that is fully enslaved by the lawyers of that corpo will not see how it's good business when humans engage with your product. When gamers play and interact with your code. It's pure folly to cite some trade war or corporate war with another corpo. No dude. Share with also other devs. Be a fucking human. You are not a corpo slave droid. I am so glad that valve is not publicly traded. Holy shit it must take a lot to be the leading company in this market and not bend to capitalist pressures

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I miss The Specialists and Vampire Slayer mods so so much...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Science and industry.

There are some discords where people play HL1 mods once a week.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Specialists mentioned

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Natural Selection was a quality one.