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Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees (arstechnica.com)

submitted 4 months ago by Beaver@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The product stays the same if we bring down their revenue to 1 billion, they aren't close to bankruptcy. If they took 0.5 %

So? I don't care if they're forced to lower his salary. You said nothing differentiates Steam enough and I'm saying it does so by being good.

They are rivals but they don't actually compete or strive to give their customers any kind of competitive prices.

The majority of customers on all storefronts are fine with the pricing as-is. Steam's competitive advantage comes from being the best storefront with an amazing library and . That's why it's the top dog

And yes, you are defending a billionaire.

I'm clearly not. I'm defending the service itself

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world -4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The majority of customers on all storefronts are fine with the pricing as-is. Steam's competitive advantage comes from being the best storefront with an amazing library and . That's why it's the top dog

Pricing has nothing to do with Steam dude…. that’s publisher/developer controlled. And they have a quite a lot of stink to say about the cut they take for nothing. They need to curate and moderate all their own store page, Steam does what and takes 30%?

It’s no wonder some take epics deals, the cut they take is 12%, that’s significant. And if epic can operate by taking that much with their employee count, clearly valve could be doing a far better job of what they do, but they do what again…? Line Gabe’s pocket and what else?