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rustyhancock
Making $50M per employee is an insane stat for any company and I'd have never guessed it of valve.

With that kind of income why bother with making any games even half life 3?

super256
Positive Publicity. Valve does many things that are received poorly (e.g. cancelling counterstrike fan projects, intransparent lootbox gambling, etc.), but they are doing enough good things that such things are quickly forgotten.
dmonitor
an alternative perspective: with that much capital wouldn't they make games?
Wowfunhappy
They mostly don’t bother making games.
Noumenon72
My current project got rid of everyone with less than ten years of experience and I thought that was weird because there are usually tasks that you can give juniors. Is Valve unusual in not having any positions for people under seven years of experience?
low_tech_love
2015 might as well be a century ago… I doubt this would happen today.