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> Counter-Strike was Half-Life mod, and Half-Life was developed by Valve, so it's still the same developer That's not how that works. Someone else developed Co
by capableweb 6y ago
> Counter-Strike was Half-Life mod, and Half-Life was developed by Valve, so it's still the same developer
That's not how that works. Someone else developed Counter-Strike and released it to the community. Then around ~2000 Valve bought it + license and continued to develop it (with original developers as well).
DotA -> League of Legends was something similar as well. Third-party mods that got bought up by a company and then made exclusive to a particular store.
If you thought that the PC industry is somehow becoming like the Apple App Store, I think you're living in a fantasy. You can still download and run whatever binary you want. On a iPhone, you cannot.