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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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (53 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Yeah. Really wish they were more like gog or itch

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (87 children)

"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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

did pcgamer learn it by reading a similar article awhile back?

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