Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 months agoThere 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.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Billionaires, multimillionaires, they’re all part of the problem.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 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.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Oh so Gabe’s six yachts, that’s for development purposes?
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s irrelevant, is what it is. When you make something a whole bunch of people want to pay money for, you get to buy yourself nice things. I find a yacht to be a pretty wasteful use of money, but when I handed over thousands of dollars for hundreds of Steam games, it’s because we were both getting something good out of that transaction.