Valve Has set the Modding Standard, Why are Others So Slow to Adapt

More companies need to take Valve’s approach to their modding communities.

For the most part, modders are seen as a nuisance to be pandered to at best and a hindrance to be squashed at worst save for a few developers and publishers out there. Valve is the huge exception, where they learned early on that taking their modders in can yield amazing results.

Games like Team Fortress and Counter-Strike where originally mods themselves, and now they are hit franchises in their own right plus the talent that made those mods have gone on to do amazing things for Valve outside of all of that.