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Why should Valve give up their leverage. They actively pick and choose who they license the engine to.

• tweetle_beetle 3mo ago
  Realistically there isn't really any commercial value left in it though. While there were some notable unique games made with it (Titanfall 1 & 2, E.Y.E, The Stanley Parable, etc), these were made over a decade ago and the majority of games made with it are reworks/mods/adaptations of Half-Life related material. https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/List_of_third-party_Source_games https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/List_of_third-party...
  • matheusmoreira 3mo ago
    > there isn't really any commercial value left in it though I wonder why it never went mainstream. The Unreal engine went on to power a massive number of games. The Half-Life engines birthed a lot of mods, but wasn't used by many full games.
    • throwaway27448 3mo ago
      Unreal won because they invested in a whole ecosystem of tools to build interactive media and the community to support it. Only unity really compares (and I'm not sure how true even that is these days).
    • inigyou 3mo ago
      The Source engine isn't a blank slate engine like Unity. It's more like having unlimited power and permission to mod HL2. They just give you the HL2 code and say go nuts.