naveHere’s how much Valve pays its staff — and how few people it employs
336 people
30% grabbed from every game
8.56 billion in profit
The service they privide to devs and customers is worth it, but valve doesn’t even really take 30% anyway. Watch pirate software’s video on it.
I love Steam and I love Gabe, but the system we have that let Steam extract so much money out of the gaming industry is broken.
And that’s true for software or online services in general, and I’m saying that as someone who benefit from that system as a software engineer.
Tier 1 Build-A-Bear 🧸What do you suggest, when the alternatives like epic or Ubisoft are exponentially worse?
Steam is the best, and we’re lucky that Steam is the one that won rather than another. Which could definitely have happened because once one of them is in place it’s extremely hard to change.
So the situation is good for gamers, but from an economic point of view it’s bad.