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Valve doesn't sell ad space on Steam so it can make room for surprise hits: 'We don't think Steam should be pay-to-win' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Valve seems to be the only company on this capitalist world that actually understands that company profits cannot and should not grow exponentially forever without eventually destroying itself.

Nah, they are many of them, maybe even the majority of companies are like that (think SMBs). The peculiarity of Valve is that it also managed to become and stay the world leader in its domain, so every nerd knows about it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Tons of SMEs are world leaders in their domain, you just never heard of them because they produce giant ship propellers, fire hose couplings, surgical instruments, whatnot, not exactly things people not using them ever think about. And of course you don't have to be a hidden champion to be a SME that owns their market, say, Herrenknecht. Who would be unknown if tunnel boring wasn't so cool and impactful that there's tons of documentaries about them doing it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What is a SME or SMB in this context? Mentioning @[email protected] in case you're not sure what they meant by SMB either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Small to medium business/enterprise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks!