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Revenue. Revenue is not profit.
Correct. The article is discussing revenue.
The headline is misleading, it was worth mentioning.
I don't think it's misleading, "generating" implies gross profit, not net. It's not explicit, but it's also not misleading.
"Makes".
Again, implying gross profit, not net. It didn't say "makes" 50 million profit. You are inferring something that is not otherwise implied.
Nah he's right. Nobody buys a widget for 5 bucks and sells it for 10 bucks and says, "I made 10 bucks". By your rational I could buy a car new for 25 grand, sell it 10 years later for 12 grand and say I "made" 12 grand off it.
"Make" has typically implied profit for as long as I can remember.
I interpreted it as profit.
Considering that I've seen conflation of revenue and profit from actual journalists, I stand by my previous statement.
Buddy. Take a breath for a moment. I mean this constructively; it's an opportunity to learn.
What you've just said here is essentially this:
Please remember, we all make errors (myself included). The best of us learn from them.
Not just that but I mean journalism geez. I can't think of a profession that has had more of a fall from grace in the last 20 years. Furthermore the implication here is video game journalism, which has always been the lowest form of Journalism.
I "make" my gross pay. I don't really talk about "making" my net pay. I don't much think about my net pay, outside of actual budgeting.
It's not misleading, you've just purposely ignored the meaning of the words to instead imply your own.
Have you ever considered that different people can interpret things differently? Why are you jumping down someone's throat for clarifying an ambiguous title?
Is this fun for you?
Then again, somehow I don’t expect Valve’s expenditures are that high, except download server costs.
Eh, that could also include sales revenue, of which Valve pays out 70% to right holders.
People are the biggest cost for sure. Then servers probably.