• RxBrad
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    582 years ago

    Valve pockets 30% of almost every PC game sale by every company ever.

    Honestly, I’m surprised that number isn’t higher.

    • @[email protected]
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      282 years ago

      The really impressive thing about Valve is the amount of revenue they make with a relatively small head count. They have about 1/10 the number of employees as EA.

      • Omega
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        82 years ago

        What was the last game they made prior to Half-Life Alyx? Portal 2?

        • @[email protected]
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          92 years ago

          Cs:go, dota 2, artifact and underlords i think.

          I guess this is estimated revenue through game sales, otherwise i’d think activision-blizzard(candy crush) and valve(steam cut, dota and cs micro transactions, steam market) would be higher.

          And of course MS has an interest to undervalue some companies compared to sony and nintendo

    • @[email protected]
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      212 years ago

      Seems about right. They don’t have a complete monopoly and the industry seems to be making most of their money off micro-transactions these days instead of sales, something valve takes no cut of outside there own games. Meanwhile apple and google do have monopolies and take a cut of micro-transactions which accounts for there significantly larger revenue.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 years ago

      It might be. It’s hard to know since Valve isn’t a public company, so it’s all estimations and guesses.

  • kingthrillgore
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    12 years ago

    I have to imagine Valve has a war chest they can use, if they wanted, to do some acquisitions.