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We learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Apple (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 24 points 6 days ago

Might have something to do with getting underage kids hooked on gambling.

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 7 points 5 days ago

Is that just clever wording or are the employees actually seeing bigger checks?

[-] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 7 points 5 days ago

It's being phrased as an ROI per employee "asset", not as compensation per actual employee.

Gabe is pocketing most of this.

[-] filcuk@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 days ago

It's not 'clever wording', it says what it is - dividing profit by the number of employees results in a higher number for valve.
The heading isn't comparing employee paychecks,it's about overall company performance.

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[-] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Valve takes 30% on every game sold and you don't even own the games. That's sick capitalism in action, yet everybody kisses their ass.

EDIT for the Steam jerkers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r0a7-qyjss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13eiDhuvM6Y

[-] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 6 days ago

Honestly, I pay for the service alone.

Pirating games is easy-ish enough so if Valve ever enshittifies I will be quickly learning how to remove Steam's DRM and put all my games on a server and never purchase another video game in my lifetime.

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 9 points 6 days ago

Yeah. Really wish they were more like gog or itch

[-] julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 days ago

I believe this is something to be aware of and if this is something you don't want use GOG instead. But in reality as long as Steam exists you will be able to download and play your games. If Steam ceases to exists then you will not be able to download them, but there will be ways to still play them, if you previously downloaded them. It is not like "owning" movies on Amazon (or just recently on the Playstation Store), where you always need to stream the movies.

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[-] index@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 days ago

"It's making more money per employee than Apple"

And how much are the game devs whos game are on steam making? If Valve ceo has enough money to buy a billion dollar worth fleet of mega yachts the share is simply off, Valve is making billions nobody else is.

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