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Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year (www.tomshardware.com)

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Valve's unique approach to corporate governance is probably the reason why it's such an efficient company.

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[–] chickenf622@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Maybe having a minimum where the sales don't take a cut? That way slop that doesn't sale much doesn't benefit, but when a good indie comes along that sales well it would make a difference.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Whatever limit you try to set, that's what the AI slop will aim to meet.

It's just something that can't be automated, at the end of the day every online market needs a human to whitelist new products and review bait and switches, or the market will flood with junk.

But no one wants to pay for that human level review.

And I know, it may cause delays, but most Indie game do not only beta but alpha builds to fund development. I bought BG3 like 2 years before release because it made Act 1 immediately playable, it's not even just an Indie dev thing.

So even if it takes a full year, real developers would just register early in the process. The slop tho won't stay topical because they're not being pumped out in an afternoon.