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From what I understand, they basically have a very open work structure. People are free to work in what they want, when they want. They actually are against high workloads and do everything they can to prevent employee burnout.

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I can’t say if that extends beyond the development teams to other departments like server management, but everything I’ve ever seen about them says they’re all just in it to have fun, make cool shit now and then, and of course make tons of money. The fact that their sales platform basically just prints money helps support that culture, obviously.

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SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It didn’t work out

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- capt_wolf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That’s a bummer, but also not entirely surprising when you consider Half-Life 3…
  
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  - SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah it’s great to think letting your employees do what they want is good, which it is, but yeah everyone’s going to have their own idea and want to work on it. So who gets funding, etc.
    
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- HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I think it speaks to developing for gaming over developing for infrastructure. What does it say about gaming where, a company that has a healthy attitude about work in general, has staff that prefer to work on addressing Steam bugs over working on a prestige game?
  
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  - SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Do they? They have some pretty buggy and downright unplayable games due to griefers for years now.
    
    Its like people but their heads and ignore everything bad about steam/valve.
    
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    uis@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    They have some pretty buggy and downright unplayable games due to griefers for years now so how is that even remotely true?
    
    TF2 got bot-free recently. Let’s see how it lasts.
    
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- Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  If the alternative is making a half life 3 that people don’t have the passion for then imo it’s working.
  
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  - SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Or there’s not enough people with passion, since their passion is hats, or the higher ups have their preferred people they give funding too, part of the linked articles mention this stuff.
    
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    Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I don’t want forced passion. If an artists doesn’t want to create, they shouldn’t be forced.
    
    So is game making an art form, I think so.
    
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- Vilian@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  They never fully abandoned it tho
  
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- nalinna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That is absolutely fascinating, kinda disappointing, and a really good find.
  
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