• DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca
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      19 hours ago

      Not that odd. Valve doesn’t have mass layoffs because they don’t over-hire. Beyond that, it’s salt in the wound towards Sweeney’s inability to compete.

      • Grimy@lemmy.world
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        15 hours ago

        Valve runs such a lean ship that Gaben was able to buy a boat with a fully functional hospital aboard.

        Every other company that greedily sucks away profit from their consumers to the point of creating billionaires is criticised but steam gets a pass because they don’t have any employees to lay off. Jfc.

        They don’t hire at all because it’s a money making machine sucking wealth out of gamers and devs alike. It needs zero manpower, it literally just prints money.

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          10 hours ago

          And yet they still push innovation, both in software and hardware.

          Theyre certainly not angels, but they’re far closer than just about anyone else at their level.