Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code

Re:Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code by SXX on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @03:51PM (#43094940)

I guess it will sounds like I being Valve advocate here, but it's just not only a bottom line. Valve simply dont have headcount to crackdown on many things and neither they have headcount to do lots of predatory stuff too.

Valve is under 400 people and wast majority of them do not work on Steam or specific game like CSGO. Likely each project support team is like 30-50 people at most.

To compare numbers for other companies in 2023-2024:

  * Epic Games - 4000
  * Nintendo - 7,724
  * Sony Interactive Entertainment - 12,700
  * Take-Two Interactive - 12,371
  * Electronic Arts - 13,700
  * Activision Blizzard - 17,000
  * Mircosoft Gaming - 20,100

Might be they do have to go to hire 100 more people to solve this problem and might be it's fully their fault, but expectations many people have of this certainly rich, but small company are not realistic.

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Re:Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code by Ekaros on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @04:12PM (#43095185)

Also looking at things like pirate sites, it would be never ending process. Close one and lock the their inventories and 3 will popup somewhere else. It is unlikely to be solvable issue.

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Re:Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code by almatabata on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @04:46PM (#43095527)

Just because you cannot "solve" an issue, does not mean you should do nothing. By that logic valve should not implement VAC, because after all, cheaters will always find a way.

They play the anti-cheat game of cat and mouse, because if they do not, users will stop playing. No one wants to play with cheaters unless they are cheating.

They could definitely invest some resources into this. But they have no monetarily incentive thus they do nothing. I fully expect legal action or fear of it, will eventually make them do something.

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Re:Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code by almatabata on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @04:51PM (#43095578)

They can definitely hire 2-5 people to do something, and at least try to crack down.

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