[jon-wood]

My perception is that Valve are the exception to that rule. They've got the money on tap from Steam, meaning their game development side is more of a hobby than anything else, giving a lot of freedom to the teams working on new games. I could believe it's a bit less rosy working on new hats for their Avatar Dressup games.

[SXX]

Actually Valve no longer make these "hats". Most of items that included in content updates are created by the community.