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Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees (arstechnica.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Anyone who has any idea about the german bureaucracy hellscape knows this is far from sufficient to deal with any issue whatsoever.

Maybe that's contractable.

[–] CosmoNova 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Does that matter when the bottleneck is this tiny? A single employee would have to contract, stay in contact and approve whatever they outsource. And going by some quirks with the german side of the store their usual response seems to be simply blocking german IPs from accessing whatever may cause extra bureaucratic work for them.

[–] newDayRocks 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The single full time employee is the lead or manager. They have some number of contractors to work with but aren't headcount.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Specifically that person probably contracts a law firm to handle the bureaucratic aspect, on an ongoing basis and a support team to handle low level issues.