Team Fortress: Dev team created a popular Quake mod, hired by Valve, now one of the greatest series ever.ĭid you sense a pattern there? Yes, it gives them rather broad rights, but I don't see them exploiting them, ever. Once again, the dev team got hired and the end result is history. Portal: A students project (not originally called Portal, had something to do with a princess or something) that Valve decided to make into something bigger. They then released the game for free, along with mod tools for the game.Ĭounter-Strike: Originally a popular mod for Half-Life, now an extremely popular series after Valve hired the developers to work for them. Valve decided to hire the modding team and have them build a new version of the game is Source. They have a long history with modders, and all of it I know is good.Īlien Swarm, a popular Unreal Tournament mod. I'm not saying that they will probably be good to the modders, I'm saying that their past suggests that they absolutely will help you 100% of the way.

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