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

• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There isn’t always a publisher. Sometimes the publisher owns them outright, and the devs will only see a salary in either case. There are only a handful of publishers that are worth more than a billion dollars and therefore run by billionaires, and they account for very few game releases in a given year on Steam these days. There’s a lot of nuance to this. And quite frankly, if a game I want to play comes from a billionaire’s company, I’m going to buy the game, they’re going to get some of my money, and I won’t feel bad about that.

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Billionaires, multimillionaires, they’re all part of the problem.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you sold something for $10 that hundreds of thousands of people wanted enough to buy it, you’d be a multimillionaire too. The only way you fund a development team with a handful of people working there is with multiple millions of dollars.

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      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh so Gabe’s six yachts, that’s for development purposes?

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