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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] 3 points 3 months ago

I think at this point it's just an argument of semantics. Yes it's hyperbole to say they dont make games because they have technically released games. But there is still very much a problem there when the last majorly successful games you released are over 10 years old (I don't count CS GO 2 as a separate game, it was just an update to an already existing game). Since then all they've done is make smaller games like Artifact and Underlords which were just their attempts to cash in on more live service genres and one large project that was VR only. So of course it makes sense why people are gonna say they make no games anymore even if it's hyperbole. You can try to um actually it and say they have technically released games but that doesn't mean the problem people are complaining about isn't there.