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Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year (www.tomshardware.com)
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Valve's unique approach to corporate governance is probably the reason why it's such an efficient company.

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[–] 32 points 11 months ago

I mean, it doesn't exactly take much to run Steam...

They make a few games, but it's less making new games and supporting a handful that have been around decades by now.

The reason they have such market dominance, is Gabe isn't insanely greedy. He has more than he'll ever spend, and I'd love to see him do more with the massive wealth he has.

But it's not like he's fucking over users to squeeze what would be an unnoticeable amount more. So people hang around.!

I'd hate to guess the number of people who have dropped over a grand through Steam

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    [–] 16 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    If they succeed with the frame and machine, the greedy & lazy competition will be even more rabid.

    Instead of working and competing, they will sue until there's no tomorrow.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

    Instead of working and competing, they will sue until there’s no tomorrow.

    why? Valve obviously have more money than them. EA and etc have shitloads of cash. Do they have "majority of PC game sales" cash? No. They have "generic sports game annual release" cash. while that is a lot, it's not the same ballpark.

    with this shit it just becomes "throw money at lawyers until you win" and Valve have more money.

    EDIT : Contrarians out here taking statements as challenges instead of thinking on the first word I posted. :

    WHY.

    What is the motivation? "because they want fast money and don't want to compete" is not enough of a motive, since suing the shit out of someone like valve will have big consequences and costs, and will need a solid reasoning as to the reason and the way (how) they are going to do it.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Does Microsoft have less money than Valve?

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Microsoft are looking to exit the console space, and trying to latch onto other hardware systems.

    There's no motive for anyone to sue valve over this.
    They might as well sue fucking dell.

    EA, Ubisoft , Rockstar all tried their own distrobution platforms and people only use them when they're forced, like Epic store for fortnite.
    All this shit is is a mini PC running linux. You could have set up your own "steam machine" for fucking ever, maybe without valve OS, but something similar.

    The only ones that might be getting mad at it is facebook, because the frame might compete with the oculus whatever.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    At least for EA they just got bought out by the Saudis who do have magnitudes more cash then valve along with the ear of a president known to help out his buddies in the legal realm.

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    • [–] 12 points 11 months ago

    My boss makes a billion while I make a million.
    This why I 🖕 on company time.
    Capitalists are not your friends

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    [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    You won't hear from Valve mass cutting employers for Ai replacement. And because its a private company, they don't have to do trash to calm down the investors.

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