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Lawsuit 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)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Why do you think they need outsourcing? Do you really think that 100 people is not enough?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago

Steam claims they're available in over two hundred countries. Do you really think that one employee for every two countries is enough?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

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.