• lorty@lemmygrad.ml
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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?