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"Nobody asked for" is an unproductive meme that gets parroted all too often. No one asked for Half-Life or Portal or DotA or even MtG either.
by Reedx 7y ago
"Nobody asked for" is an unproductive meme that gets parroted all too often. No one asked for Half-Life or Portal or DotA or even MtG either.
- cm2012 7y agoDotA was a well established Warcraft 3 custom game with the same name before Valve copied it.
- Reedx 7y agoRight, DotA was a mod no one asked for. Portal was actually a similar thing. It started as a student game called Narbacular Drop. Valve hired that team, who turned the concept into Portal. Likewise they hired Icefrog from DotA to work on DotA 2. That's a good strategy.
- mos_basik 7y agoIt's an excellent strategy. To add to your examples: Team Fortress was originally a Quake mod, and Valve hired its creators to head Team Fortress 2's development. Counter-Strike was originally a Half-Life mod before Valve bought the rights and made CS:S, then CS:GO.