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Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 55 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Steam is successful because they're the only company in that market treating customers right.

I'd be very upset if the courts side with EA.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

and because they are not publicly traded company.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

Well that's why they actually do right by their customers. That said I definitely agree

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Wait what's going on in the courts between valve and EA?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They're also one of the few (possibly only) that has not gone public.

Just a coincidence, I'm sure.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There are plenty of private companies that are shitty too. It definitely helps being private (and maybe is a requirement?), but you also have to have the right owners for private companies to be good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

For sure... Just one more reason to adopt co-determination laws like those in Germany.

Public or private, if the board of the company actually contained literal workers, it could make things so much better.