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[poodaddy]

So let's fuck our loyal customers and charge the $750+ for a 5 years old specs PC

I see you....

 

[EverydayBeast]

Valve is trying to be competitive

 

[yogaflame]

They won't, there success is in staying small so they never have to go public. I doubt the machines are being built at Valve headquarters anyway. And just like the Steam Deck, reserve one, and maybe they will get one out to you in 6 months. LOL!!!

They've been roughly the same size for most of their existence. They ever so slightly scaled up their hardware teams ages ago (think OG Steam Machine) and then scaled back and managed producing Index/Deck with a very small hardware team.

I've been saying it over and over on here.. I really don't think Valve is interested in being the type of company that produces hardware at the scale of a Sony/Microsoft... expect their to be even less Steam Machine's produced then Decks.

This desire to have Valve enter the conzole warzzz here is unlikely shared by Valve lol

They really made sure that steambox was properly designed, engineered and well optimize which means they also want this to be bid and get piece of that pie and maybe they want to be ahead in cornering the market on the new segment, the pchybrid category in market which MSxbox hybrid plans to get. Pc hybrid like steambox will be a big task compared to steam deck. For me I think they cannot rely to much on AI for support with this new task.

 

[Crunchbox]

This is not the flex you think it is. I prefer companies that break even with hundred of thousands of employees. Makes for a better society instead of the few people getting all the money. Also when is the last time they made a real game and not live service loot box slop? Its all cool you guys like that steam makes tik tok brainrot style games popular but you guys spread propaganda for them as if you had stock in the company but its private so basically you get absolutely nothing lol.

 

[Crunchbox]

Valve is trying to be competitive

With who and why? They have 17 billion dollars the title says lol.

 

[Last Hearth]

Honestly I eventually came to the opinion Valve is kind of gross. Instead of using that revenue to create potentially thousands of jobs they've just hoarded it all with such a small amount of people. We all think of corporations as the bad guys but a business with that much revenue staying so small is not providing to society what a corporation with the same revenue would.

How many jobs did Gabe create when he spent 500 million on a yacht? Making one's company less efficient for the sake of creating jobs is really dumb. He's better off spending the extra profits on other efficient businesses.

 

[Crunchbox]

Well they were the first to successfully implement gambling mechanics and loot boxes in games and essentially own a monopoly in PC games market and take a nice and hefty 30% per sale (not including the csgo market too) and yet have people constantly on their side, an unlosable situation really.

Its called a cult. People probably laundering money through sales of cosmetics.

 

[yurinka]

Report: Valve made 17B~ in revenue this year.

These are made out numbers from a random Twitter user

 

[MayauMiao]

Honestly I eventually came to the opinion Valve is kind of gross. Instead of using that revenue to create potentially thousands of jobs they've just hoarded it all with such a small amount of people. We all think of corporations as the bad guys but a business with that much revenue staying so small is not providing to society what a corporation with the same revenue would.

Thousands of what job? Hire more DEI activist to create more problem and friction from within that only drags a company down to bankruptcy?

 

[Crunchbox]

How many jobs did Gabe create when he spent 500 million on a yacht? Making one's company less efficient for the sake of creating jobs is really dumb. He's better off spending the extra profits on other efficient businesses.

Zero. Probably a waiting list. Probably made it on the side of making military and other boats aka no shortages of work ever so one guys yacht aint moving any needles. Money only going to the same insulated exclusive club of rich people and their 10th generation of alfreds

 

[PlayStaytion]

People can't get comfortable about Gabe passing away(God Forbid) while using Steams launcher. Well, let me tell you a secret about life longevity, it's your job, not your weight, so relax and play like everyone else.

 

[Topher]

These are made out numbers from a random Twitter user

This is based off an article from 2024. It is old news.

But yeah, he's making up the $17 billion. How he is using a 2024 source for 2025, I have no idea

Here’s how much Valve pays its staff — and how few people it employs

Small company, huge influence.

www.theverge.com

 

[MayauMiao]

-wrong post-

 

[ClanOfNone]

I figured Steam would have a small employee base, but holy shit 336 people is insane.

Steam IS pc gaming, that level of efficiency is also insane. Steam run by GabenAI bots confirmed, Half-Life 3 first game fully developed by AI.

 

[IntentionalPun]

How many jobs did Gabe create when he spent 500 million on a yacht? Making one's company less efficient for the sake of creating jobs is really dumb. He's better off spending the extra profits on other efficient businesses.

That yacht comment is a pretty silly comparison. Just 1/10th of Valve's revenue could employ 17,000 people with 100k a year jobs. Gabe could still make many billions a year with that size of a company.

I don't really expect many on GAF to agree with me, but it's my opinion that that sort of wealth hoarding is not really healthy in any way for capitalism and society.

Literally taking most of the revenue of a massive industry and barely employing anyone. (Well more like a bit over 1/3rd of that industry... just insane)

 

[Flabagast]

Don't understand how there can be so few employees for a company making multiple hardware, distributing hardware, marketing hardware, creating multiple games, maintaining multiple games, operating a digital marketplace, marketing the digital marketplace, and all the huge support functions that must entail.


I call bullshit on this 330 employees figure

 

[Topher]

This is not the flex you think it is. I prefer companies that break even with hundred of thousands of employees. Makes for a better society instead of the few people getting all the money. Also when is the last time they made a real game and not live service loot box slop? Its all cool you guys like that steam makes tik tok brainrot style games popular but you guys spread propaganda for them as if you had stock in the company but its private so basically you get absolutely nothing lol.

Massive corporations make for a better society than privately owned companies? lol....ok

 

[jshackles]

Don't understand how there can be so few employees for a company making multiple hardware, distributing hardware, marketing hardware, creating multiple games, maintaining multiple games, operating a digital marketplace, marketing the digital marketplace, and all the huge support functions that must entail.


I call bullshit on this 330 employees figure

Valve has 300ish employees and can do all that, the same way that Sandfall Interactive can make a game like Expedition 33 with "only 30 people". It's called outsourcing and contractors.

 

[Boss Mog]

So let's fuck our loyal customers and charge the $750+ for a 5 years old specs PC

My 9 year old PC is probably more powerful.

 

[Hudo]

Don't understand how there can be so few employees for a company making multiple hardware, distributing hardware, marketing hardware, creating multiple games, maintaining multiple games, operating a digital marketplace, marketing the digital marketplace, and all the huge support functions that must entail.


I call bullshit on this 330 employees figure

I wouldn't be surprised if they also use freelancers and outsource stuff to companies on a per-project basis.

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

Those Steam Sales are OP.

 

[Sintoid]

The first online shop that makes a lot of money, who could have ever tell?

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

So let's fuck our loyal customers and charge the $750+ for a 5 years old specs PC

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