Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal

Corigan@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Because they tried competing and it didn’t work because they kept offering an inferior product, so they’re trying to weasel Steam out of the market

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  • homicidalrobot@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    As for as storefronts go, which is what’s being talked about here, they are competing and winning. With a fraction of the employees other companies employ for storefront work. Origin (Rest Unpeacefully) and Uplay never stood a chance and epic has had plenty of time to market saturate. The company not being publicly traded doesn’t prevent competition, it prevents investor interests like quashing competition.

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    • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      They meant the other companies tried competing and failed so they’re pushing these anti-valve lawsuits and articles.

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• lanolinoil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Shit on? This is some baller ass shit – What is the rev per employee a billion dollars!!!

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    They’ve touted before that they may be the most profitable company per employee on earth.

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    • lanolinoil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Must be – I can’t think of anyone else that could come close unless you count Berkshire Hathaway or something

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  • GoodEye8@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I don’t know, there’s plenty of anti-Valve rhetoric on Lemmy. Plenty of people try to spin it as Valve having a low employee count because they have a lot of contractors. One guy was making a point that Valve employee count is much lower because they buy in AMD GPUs for the Steam Deck… As if Valve should buy a chip manufacturing plants and design and manufacture their own GPUs.

    Even here somewhere below (or maybe up later) in this thread someone said

    Also, a company can pretend to have 10 employees if it instead hires 1000 contractors to do the actual work.

    Which is an argument, if you can prove Valve is buying in 10 times the amount of contractors as they have employees. But I very much doubt such information exists.

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• ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I definitely didn’t interpret this as shitting on Steam. In fact, the opposite.

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• synae@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  How is this even shitting on them? It’s impressive af

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  • Corigan@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Just more seems to be a lot of posts on this topic and they are filled with anti steam crap

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  • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    The way the headline is phrased suggests a disapproving tone.

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    • Pregnenolone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      How so? It’s about as neutral as can be.

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      • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Anything not directly biased towards my interests are against my interests.

        ;p

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    • HKayn@dormi.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Explain.

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