@[email protected]M to [email protected]English • 5 months agoLawsuit paperwork reveals Valve employs around 350 people – and less than 100 work for Steam. Most of Valve's payroll is still committed to game dev roles.www.gamesindustry.bizexternal-linkmessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up1162arrow-down114
arrow-up1148arrow-down1external-linkLawsuit paperwork reveals Valve employs around 350 people – and less than 100 work for Steam. Most of Valve's payroll is still committed to game dev roles.www.gamesindustry.biz@[email protected]M to [email protected]English • 5 months agomessage-square38fedilink
minus-square@ampersandrewlinkEnglish4•5 months agoThey do outsource. There are contractors checking to make sure that, when you submit a game to Steam, it isn’t malware and has all of the features that you say it has. And those are just the ones I know about.
minus-squareSnot FlickermanlinkfedilinkEnglish2•5 months agoThey absolutely outsource janitorial. I’ve never been at a company that didn’t. You don’t usually have your senior devs vacuuming the carpet and emptying bins at the end of the day.
They do outsource. There are contractors checking to make sure that, when you submit a game to Steam, it isn’t malware and has all of the features that you say it has. And those are just the ones I know about.
They absolutely outsource janitorial. I’ve never been at a company that didn’t.
You don’t usually have your senior devs vacuuming the carpet and emptying bins at the end of the day.