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[-] [email protected] 79 points 1 day ago

Figuring out how to easily port Windows games to Linux was definitely a recipe for profit.

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[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago

Valve is the living proof that you can have great service and still be profitable. Will capitalists learn? No

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

Why have great service and be profitable when you can have terrible service and be 1.6% more profitable?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

Correction: Be just as profitable but cash out on that profit slightly sooner.

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[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

Wonder how much of this comes from the gambling business. They don’t own the secondary market where you can sell skins, but they are the gateway into that world.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

They do own a big part of the secondary market. For steam marketplace, they get a cut of those sales too.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

I suspect a fair chunk. Steam for gamers and devs is great and all but its underbelly of opening up the world of gambling to kids is real gross. Its insane how valve has been getting away with it for so long.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

Weird how if you pay the people activly invested in a product things work rather than having to awnser to why line no go up

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Showing the importance of sustainable business models over the throw your entire budget at everything then end up firing hundreds and thousands of employees while giving bonuses to executives because the quarterly earnings weren't as high approach that lot of publicly traded companies have moved towards.

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