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Here’s how much Valve pays its staff — and how few people it employs
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336 people
30% grabbed from every game
8.56 billion in revenue
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.
Then why are publishers and customers so loyal then? There has been attempt after attempt to create a competitor but they all fall short. Steam offers so so so much in comparison to the competition it's not even funny. The 30% is justified.
Because everyone believes that the competition will be worse in 5 years, but Steam, on the other hand, will be better.