Re:Steam required additional 57.51 GB download for a review
by ljm on Saturday June 19, 2021 @01:03PM
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I used to think Valve's approach to management (to essentially remove it) sounded like a great idea. But now it feels to me to be more of a curse than a blessing - there's a machine that prints money and what's the point of trying to kick off any project when no one has any real skin in the game and can abandon it when they get bored?
https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/valve-belatedly-fixes-ste...
People who have left valve often report that the organization is extremely dysfunctional.
https://medium.com/dunia-media/the-nightmare-of-valves-self-...
From where I’m standing, Valve looks like a company cursed by success. They have the advantage of controlling the world’s biggest PC game distribution platform (an advantage that is self-sustaining due to network effects), and as such have a fountain of near infinite money. This allows them to run an extremely inefficient organization without suffering the consequences that most companies would.