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Steam just cracked 40 million concurrent users for the first time⁠, meaning Valve's user count was bigger than 80% of the countries in the United Nations (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] -2 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Are you the person that posts that under every Valve post here on Lemmy? Because they make no sense.

Valve is a small company in terms of employees and all of them make good money already.

They grew by not going for enshitification, and all of them know it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago

Yeah but think of the short term profits they could make with some enshitification, it would be enough for at least like two yachts per shareholder

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I doubt it, if you are concerned if I’m the person you’re thinking of you should tag me, or go through my post history.

That being said, Gabe owns 50.1% of the company. If he dies, and transfers that to one person, it doesn’t matter what his employees think, public or private, unless the bylaws for the corporation (yes, a private company like steam is still a corporation) state otherwise, the majority shareholder can vote on future direction and win.

Additionally, you underestimate tech employees and their willingness to exit on the right terms. If valve becomes valued at 100 billion dollars, and they can exit with their 1 percent stock at 45 years old, neither them or their family will ever need to work a day again and they can exit the global firestorm and live on an island somewhere.

You’re putting far too much altruism on everyone.