• msspwn@lemmy.ml
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    19 hours ago

    Valve has made games. Damn good ones at that.

    You know HALF-LIFE Counter Strike Portal Team Fortress 2

    and are the makers of the source engine powering Titanfall 1, 2, Apex and a lot more

      • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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        19 hours ago

        If you count only Valve’s own games’ sales, those earned nowhere as much as the steam market trade of TF2 hats and CS skins

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          4 hours ago

          Exactly, Valve’s success has been defined by the extent to which they have financialized their few games, stretched their IP, and used that as a games publisher. It’s because they’re a rentier with no games of their own any more that they are a virtual economy monopoly…