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In 2018 a group of Valve staff tried to figure out just how efficient they were being—and found they were making more money per head than Apple, Facebook, and nearly every tech giant out there (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] snooggums@midwest.social 72 points 9 months ago

For a real comparison steam is the distributor, storefront, advertiser, and support. A bit more than just 'a middleman'.

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 75 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

A vertically integrated middleman is even more profitable.

[-] squid_slime@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

Who wants to stand up all day though

[-] Gumbyyy@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

That's why it pays so well

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 9 months ago

If there's a gold rush, you want to run the railroads, build the houses, sell the shovels and open the general store I guess

[-] Infynis@midwest.social 16 points 9 months ago

Fortunately, that's illegal now. If only those laws would be applied to modern things

[-] UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

You're missing the actual biggest key component. It's also a built in community forum with tons of user-requested settings. They mostly know how to cater and rarely backtrack a quality of life feature.

[-] dannoffs 11 points 9 months ago

They're multiple middle men at once

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