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I don't know, but I wish it was a reality.

I always end up having more fun with indie games (with some very rare AAA exceptions)

Historically, Valve has acquihired promising mod makers or smaller game companies and told them to take their ideas and make a full game out of that. Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat, TF2, Alien Swarm, DotA, I might not even know of them all.

Given how reliably VC investment leads into the cycle of enshittification, I’m not sure games like stardew / factorio would survive investment :(