Comment on Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year

warmaster@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Instead of working and competing, they will sue until there’s no tomorrow.

  why? Valve obviously have more money than them. EA and etc have shitloads of cash. Do they have “majority of PC game sales” cash? No. They have “generic sports game annual release” cash. while that is a lot, it’s not the same ballpark.

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  • sj_zero ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Does Microsoft have less money than Valve?

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Microsoft are looking to exit the console space, and trying to latch onto other hardware systems.

      There’s no motive for anyone to sue valve over this.
      They might as well sue fucking dell.

      EA, Ubisoft , Rockstar all tried their own distrobution platforms and people only use them when they’re forced, like Epic store for fortnite.
      All this shit is is a mini PC running linux. You could have set up your own “steam machine” for fucking ever, maybe without valve OS, but something similar.

      The only ones that might be getting mad at it is facebook, because the frame might compete with oculus whatever.

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  • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    At least for EA they just got bought out by the Saudis who do have magnitudes more cash then valve along with the ear of a president known to help out his buddies in the legal realm.

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      OK, but the Saudis bought EA to gameswash their horrendous political image, not to tarnish it further and throw their money away.

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