>>724124080
>Valve's current market strategy revolves around being the SINGLE LARGEST VIDEOGAME MARKETPLACE ONLINE PERIOD. Everything else is just gravy on top.
Obviously but Valve has lots of overpaid code monkeys who have to somehow justify their existence to upper dogs. That's why cs2 still gets monetization optimizations, why steam client gets tons of retarded cosmetic updates, why shit like deadlock pops up. Anything that gives them good employee points in their little meeting is good even though nothing they can possibly do bring more profit than steam's 30% tax. Meanwhile actual functional workers like hardware fags, lawyers etc. are contracted and terminated as needed just like in any other normal tech company.
Yes, core valve has always been dysfunctional like this. The people responsible for everyone's favorite valve games left valve forever ago.

>>528588119
FACT: Kurome.