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Valve, on the other hand, I guess tolerates it, but never outright endorses it
What? Clearly, you know nothing of Valve.
They actually endorse it a LOT. They've been known to put popular mods onto the Steamworks platform so they get better coverage, and they've even helped make some mods into retail games (Garrysmod). They also hired the designer of the HL2 mod Minerva: Metastasis to do a lot of the level design for HL2: Episode 3. Also, any purchase of their games gives you an SDK to develop mod, and they have an extensive wiki on using the Source SDK.Oh goddamnit, I sound like a fanboy now.
Valve games are probably some of the most most modded games today! Steam even store the mods for you to download!
Maybe it's my fault. I play Valve games 24/7, so when comparing any company in the entire world to Valve, they're not gonna be as good.