Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal

Reliable, low maitenance, with good infastructure. 80 sounds like a solid number when not including game devs and support staff.

Who the fuck cares what's with this constant desire to try and shit on steam

These numbers keep getting smaller with every headline. Tomorrow it says that Steam runs off of Gabens private NAS.

Failure of larger companies to make a competitive alternative to steam is not anticompetitive behavior on the part of Valve

80 people who are doing a bang-up job, i might add.

But Infinite growth!! How do you affirm the ability for a new CEO to make tough decisions without going on insane hiring sprees to show growth, and then firing those same people to cut corners and also show growth!? The economy needs blood!

Oh wait, they’re not publically traded? I thought only corner shops were allowed to stay off the market.

Okay, end savage stock market mockery.

This is the second time they've pointed out the size of valve. First total size, now steam specific. Is it some kinna dogwhistle to other companies that the size is a weakness to exploit? Cuz what layman cares about how many people work at a given company?

Pretty amazing that years of effort from massive competitors like Epic and Microsoft haven't managed to crack this. I wonder what they're doing wrong?

(Ok I lied. I know exactly what they're doing wrong and there's zero chance of them changing.)

I genuinely can't fathom why this number should be bigger. What am I supposed to take away from this knowledge? Far as I'm concerned, Valve is still a rare comparative good guy in the dense-packed field of bad guys in industry

All i read is "Damn, they're a super capable team."

Why is this getting posted so often?

That's an insanely efficient machine.

These "B-B-BUT STEAMS MONOPOLY CROWD" really do think we have stockholm/boot licker syndrome as if a good 60%+ of steam users didnt know how to Pirate games if we truly didnt like the service

Wasn't there just a report from a few days ago that it was closer to 300?

Of course there's a fee. Do they not realize how expensive it is to fileserve useless videogame data, provide versioning for that, updater systems, workshop storage, curation, promotion etc etc. . . without help?

Is there not a fee for your competing storefront? How would it fund its daily operations?

I mean that's awesome.

Ultimately they're only responsible for the steam client and the servers.

That actually makes a lot of sense given the fact that i havent heard about massive steam data centers. I suppose they just rent their servers from data centers around the world. Which actually is very suprising. I imagine at their scale making their own data centers would save them money.

Actually i just think they must subcontract a lot of their daily operation. I refuse to belive such low numbers are enough to even handle the complaints from stolen shipments and broken devices not to mention all the other complaints. It is more than enough to actually develop the platform but surely not to handle day to day operations.

That's how you maximize profit, isn't it?

i thought it was a big team

That feels like free advertising to potential job-seekers.

If just a few staff are running the whole thing, it means they are all probably the kind that do more actual work and less politics. That means, if anyone interested in learning fast and getting good at their field were to work there, they would have the time of their life.

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They're making their machine more and more efficient, storage and bandwidth just gets cheaper with time... Yet, they still need their 30% cut to make billions in profit.

Wealth redistribution when?