How flaky is this game anyway

[How flaky is this game anyway]

These berries taste like... Burning...

[Is anyone going to boycott bis add-ons?]

What i wonder, is why they just don't release it to the public. How many people are there out there that arent invloved in a big mod already that are talented? Probably quite a few. What if Counterstrike was never created because Valve never released the code to them, because they weren't mainstream enough? They can't say, oh weve done a lot for the community, lets stop...