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In 2018 a group of Valve staff tried to figure out just how efficient they were being—and found they were making more money per head than Apple, Facebook, and nearly every tech giant out there (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 10 points 7 months ago

Profit/employees isn't a measure of efficiency, completed projects/employees is and I'm willing to bet that a company without any real organization like Valve doesn't complete as many projects/employees as companies like Apple or Microsoft.

[-] yeahiknow3@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Valve is basically a file hosting service. I will never understand the computer illiterate gamers who worship that website. Omg it lets me download my games many times! Amazing. Go sell something on the Steam Marketplace. Fucking idiot.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

I don't see why you consider that bad. Yes, it lets me download them many times. And automatically updates. And provides multiplayer. And friends and chat. And a bunch of other features too. This is what they call a "value add".

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[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 8 points 7 months ago

I've despised steam ever since they forced it on me to play HL2.

I hate the store page that pops up whenever I want to play a game.

I hate the friends list.

I miss when I would just install a game and it was just an icon on my desktop. Now they think they should own my gaming experience and they're so powerful I can't say no.

[-] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 6 points 7 months ago

That last para is missing the fact that you'd have to go to a store and buy a CD and come back home and play vs downloading in a few minutes in today's time plus get insane discounts. Not to mention easily conquer compatibility issues. Also use controllers very easily including dualshocks. You can still have desktop icons, you can ignore the friends list, and disable notifications/pop-ups.

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[-] Clent@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Apple charges 15-30% fee to sell games built on their platform: 🤮greedy bastards 🤮

Stream charges 30% to sell games on their platform: 😍🥰😍🥰😍🥰😍

Edit: Downvotes without rebuttal prove my point.

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