• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Has to be. There’s no way the owners of the biggest storefront for pc gaming makes as much as EA.

    What non-gaming revenue do both EA and Valve have? Do you think that EA makes surprisingly much or Valve surprisingly little?

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        1 year ago

        What non-gaming revenue do both EA and Valve have?

        If their gaming revenue is 6.5 their total revenue is about 6.5 no?

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          1 year ago

          Being a marketplace for other people’s games would probably be classified as a different type of income, specially if steam sells software that’s not games (which it does).

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            1 year ago

            I’ll grant that a looot of valve’s revenue is from marketplace & steam store, and sure they sell other products but it’s a drop in the bucket vs gaming. It’s effectively a service for gamers. It’s probably not considered gaming revenue for accounting/internal politics reasons.

            I would wager that if it were possible to, you’d be able to link a vast majority of valve’s revenue to the purpose of gaming. Reality vs financial reality?

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        According to Wikipedia, Steam made over 3 billion in 2017, but they also earn from microtransactions primarily in Dota 2 and CS:GO, which continue to be some of the most played games on Steam.