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Re:An Ex-Porter of AAA Games to Linux Talks about the Future... by ekianjo on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @12:20PM (#17508094)
> I guess the flat management structure isn't all that its cracked up to be.

I guess it's also because they feel absolutely no pressure to do anything. As things are right now, Steam generates massive revenues for them (and profits since they remain a fairly small organization) so everything else looks like pocket money in comparison, especially anything hardware related.

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Re:An Ex-Porter of AAA Games to Linux Talks about the Future... by Pica_soO on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @03:41PM (#17509715)
That is a dangerous mindset though. From intels perspective everything done beside the Desktop was pocket money.

Now they have no pockets to put todays money into for tomorrow.

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Re:An Ex-Porter of AAA Games to Linux Talks about the Future... by ihsw2 on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @01:59PM (#17508922)
A problem that Apple faces too -- any product proposal that doesn't derive 10-20% profits out of the gate is derided as a non-starter, so product development becomes stagnant.
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Re:An Ex-Porter of AAA Games to Linux Talks about the Future... by Angostura on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @03:46PM (#17509759)
Is that true?
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