Who on Earth is surprised by that. Primarily a store front most of their staff will be customer support.
This is like comparing Spotify and Taylor Swift.
a non game development company not developing games is smaller than a game development company that develops games?
That’s weird…
I’m pretty sure my local pub has fewer employees than EA as well I’m just not really sure what the relevance of it is.
Well, they don’t develop any games. You don’t require a lot of people to run a store.
“Their” last game, Counter Strike Global Offensive, is 12 years old, and was developed by a contractor: Hidden Path Entertainment. Ony then Valve took over to maintain it. And anyone familiar with the current situation around the game (CS2) knows how much “development” is going on there.
ok well this is just wrong.
HLA definitely counts, and CS2 IS the current game their working on and making.
HLA was also an extrememly popular game.
My bad with HLA. But CS2 is a glorified engine update, and is not even near the features CSGO had. In the current state the game is a mess.
Sure they are working on it. All 3 three developers. Which is exactly my point. It’s impossible to compare valve to the other studios, because valve isn’t making games anymore. They just happen to own some eternal IPs where the fan base (myself included) eats their shit.
its a little more than an engine update, and you’re forgetting that a game engine is like 80% of the game itself.
It also updates maps, and map textures, which is another like 10% of the game, and the rest would be like, actual gameplay, which CS players don’t want to change, and uh, i believe they did.
Even when they did make games (portal) for example, they literally contracted a uni team that was making it for a project.
If they’re looking at employee count then I worry that Valve isn’t going to lose this
