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

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[–] jqubed 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wall Street would probably say 15-30,000+. I think the point of the surprise is that actually it’s possible to be massively profitable and have good products without needing massive teams of people. How many mediocre/bad AAA games have teams larger than Valve’s entire staff? More isn’t always better, sometimes it’s just more.

I haven’t read this article, because yeah, I’ve seen this same basic headline over a dozen times in the past week on Lemmy, but I think it’s a testament to what can happen when a private company doesn’t have a lot of shareholders and is run by people who just want the company to run well and be profitable. They don’t have to chase some unsustainable Wall Street expectation of x% growth every quarter.

[+] SchmidtGenetics -7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Most of the store front is moderated by the publishers and developers, and they contract out a lot of work, maybe what, one valve employee at a server bank with the rest being contract workers?

[–] uis 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Most of the store front is moderated by the publishers and developers,

You say this a lot, but can you explain what this means?

[–] SchmidtGenetics 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

?? The developers control the store pages, what needs to explained more? Go to the store, see what pages are linked there, those are the pages they are responsible to curate and moderate.

It’s an all automated system, you don’t think there’s a steam employee typing it all in or something do you? This have low staff numbers since it’s hella automated and contracted out.