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Valve was at one time very likely to just hire you and your team to make a spiritual successor or sequel to your own game for them.
The devs for Counter-Strike, Team Fortress, Narbacular Drop (aka Portal), and, at least for a time, Turtle Rock Studios, were all working directly for Valve. The only one I am pretty sure is still there is Robin Walker (TF).
Dota as well, and IceFrog is still there, now leading development on Deadlock from my understanding.
Dota 2 was straight up Valve showing Blizzard how it's done. It's embarrassing.
Dota was never made by Blizzard?
afaik it was a mod for warcraft 3
Exactly
Their point was that Blizzard should've hired DotA devs to make it made by Blizzard
I'm sure what you meant to say was, "we should add a clause to any new user generated content to give us sole control over it" ;)
— legal department
Would be funny if they remastered their game and did this