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Valve COO on Epic's Tim Sweeney "you mad bro?" when launching the Epic Store (repost, clarified was internal email) (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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[-] hikaru755@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

Are you talking about Valve, or generally? Because as I said, I don't think there is such a thing as a generic manager role at Valve, much less one that gets paid so much more than other roles. How much of the profit goes to Gabe directly vs the employees or reinvested into the company I don't know, but if you want to complain about compensation gaps, I'm very sure that Valve is absolutely not the company to start with.

[-] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com -3 points 8 months ago

although valve is by no means the worst offender, they’re no angel either. Between raking in billions of dollars and taking no small cut from game developers (plus the fact that they take 100 $ just to put games on steam, even for free from what I read) they arent our savior by a long shot.

FOSS is. We‘re seeing massive effort of people to democratize software development and it is glorious. So while I get that valve isnt an example for the worst of the worst, they still fit in „billionaire bad“.

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