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Valve's reported profit-per-head from Steam commissions is out there, and at $3.5 million per employee it makes Apple and Facebook look like a lemonade stand (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 91 points 2 days ago (11 children)

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

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 70 points 2 days ago (10 children)

And it was a shitload of work that took a decade plus, even being built on top of pieces that were even older, with absolutely zero guarantee of any kind of a payout.

Very few companies make these kinds of risks anymore.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago

It's not a coincidence that they are not a publicly traded company...

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