Beaver [she/her] to [email protected]English • 2 months agoValve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employeesarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square266fedilinkarrow-up1760
arrow-up1760external-linkValve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employeesarstechnica.comBeaver [she/her] to [email protected]English • 2 months agomessage-square266fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish26•2 months ago They don’t make games DOTA and CS beg to differ. Spotify is a “storefront” that produces nothing but has about 25x more employees.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-22 months agoAnd valve contracts out or has the developers and publishers self moderate their own pages on Steam instead. Why is this shocking? Because a company contracts out instead of employing people and has their customers do stuff for free…?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-22 months agoIt would seem they pay more employees than contractors, that’s why their employee count is higher.
DOTA and CS beg to differ. Spotify is a “storefront” that produces nothing but has about 25x more employees.
And valve contracts out or has the developers and publishers self moderate their own pages on Steam instead. Why is this shocking? Because a company contracts out instead of employing people and has their customers do stuff for free…?
How do you think Spotify works?
It would seem they pay more employees than contractors, that’s why their employee count is higher.