Originally Posted by
ImmortalPig
I don't think that's true. All 3 of them were mods that valve then ported. CS and TF were both Half-Life mods, dota was a wc3 mod.
As far as I know the only original games they ended up making were Portal and Half-life.
Portal was a concept by another game company that Valve expanded on.
CS was a mod of Half-life, but from the mod they have heavily developed on it, improving it, and making it their own.
dota was originally a collection of a shit ton of warcraft mods, that later bred "Dota allstars" or some shit.
Tf classic was based off a quake mod back in 96'.
And so on and so forth.
The important thing to note, they dont just buy the idea, the often hire the lead modders (if there are more than one) to help develop it. So while I agree it's not
there original concept, they promote the people who did create it by giving them a job. So the games are made by valve, in one way or another.
Last edited by RAWWRH; Nov 7, 2015 at 06:17 AM.