• the post of tom joad@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    This is the second time they’ve pointed out the size of valve. First total size, now steam specific. Is it some kinna dogwhistle to other companies that the size is a weakness to exploit? Cuz what layman cares about how many people work at a given company?

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      2 months ago

      A lot of companies have been trying to sue them and are trying to tarnish their name in any way possible because their case is already shaky at best. The whole “monopoly” thing despite competition existing and Valve only being on top because they’re the best feature wise stuff.

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        2 months ago

        And a lot of publishers already have their own launchers that dont need steam or use steam. Theyre just dogshit

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      2 months ago

      “Companies have too many employees!” cries the guy who will lose his job if all companies are run like Valve.

      Them having few employees doesn’t prevent them from taking a 30% cut on all sales and making billions in profit and having a billionaire at their head, so are people expecting that if other companies were “trimming down some fat” it wouldn’t simply result in them making more profit because prices wouldn’t come down or something?

      Also, a company can pretend to have 10 employees if it instead hires 1000 contractors to do the actual work.

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        2 months ago

        Someone’s upset that they’re following their own successful business model.

        I get that people don’t like wealthy people regardless, but Gabe is probably one of the few that’s actually not bad.

        I don’t know where this contractor bullshit is coming from; if anything that should be aimed at Microsoft.

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          2 months ago

          There are no good billionaires, the reason they exist is because people like you and me are paying more for things than they’re truly worth, billionaires exist because of the surplus we pay.