Comment on When the Steam Deck was still just an idea, Valve says some staff were like, "I just want that for me" and "the point wasn't even to make a product out of it"

• sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  … What?

  It… it goes into the company.

  theverge.com/…/valve-employs-few-hundred-people-p…

  They run an absurdly profitable business.

  They make approximately $15 million in profit per each of the roughly 360 employees.

  That’s after wages.

  Nobody knows exactly what an average Valve salary is (they’re a private company, they have no obligation to disclose that), but they almost certainly just continue to accumulate a stupendous amount of money, which they can then throw at any ideas that require all kinds of potential material or licensing or technical costs.

  The employees are not making $15 million dollars a year. Probably more like 1/10 to 1/100 of that.

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It… it goes into the company.

    How does fucking around researching and developing products for their team members benefit the company?

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    • ggppjj@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The steam deck is making them money, that was a product developed by fucking around.

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      • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Because making money was always the intention. That’s my point.

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• ggppjj@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I don’t know how you read that from what I said, or how I could have “said this as if” anything. It’s a fact that stands alone.

  Do you think that devs and engineers pay for prototypes themselves?

  Whatever bud, enjoy being convinced you’re right so hard that you get mad at other people I guess. I guess the end result of the steam machine project or the steam controller or the index or the vive or the steam deck and multiple people at Valve describing that’s how it works are just not real because how they came to exist at all don’t make sense to you.

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I don’t know how you read that from what I said

    I didn’t. I read that from the OP.

    Do you think that devs and engineers pay for prototypes themselves?

    If it’s intended for no reason other than personal consumption? Abso-fucking-lutely? Does your company pay you to fuck around with your hobbies at home?

    Whatever bud, enjoy being convinced you’re right so hard that you get mad at other people I guess.

    Please point out what I said that led you to believe I was “mad” at anyone. Other than the other people lobbing personal insults at me.

    I guess the end result of… the steam deck and multiple people at Valve describing that’s how it works are just not real because how they came to exist at all don’t make sense to you.

    What they did is real. What they said is not.

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    • ggppjj@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      it’s frustrating and difficult to talk to you about this issue. I still am confused as to the point that you have. Feel free to continue to attempt to explain it, but I’m not interested in continuing to talk to you. Thank you for your time.

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      • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Why would I continue explaining anything when you haven’t even understood the very basic explanation I’ve already given?

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