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We learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Apple (www.pcgamer.com)
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[โ€“] taladar 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You are forced to pay either way or do you think hosting (both installers/updates and some sort of multiplayer matchmaking), marketing, payment providers,... all work for free? Without something like Steam you would just likely be forced to pay someone just to manage all of that for you as an extra employee (or multiple part time employees or outsourced services).

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

People forget what it was like matchmaking pre-steam. Games would vanish if they weren't some huge game publisher with a big following.