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If the criticism here is that Valve isn't sufficiently focussing its employees' efforts on revenue-earning activities then I don't think that's the case. Aside
by leoc 12y ago
If the criticism here is that Valve isn't sufficiently focussing its employees' efforts on revenue-earning activities then I don't think that's the case. Aside from Steam, they're raking in money from the monetisation of Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike:Global Offensive, and above all Dota 2 right now. The open-allocation system is apparently backed up by a peer-review system which distributes bonus money in proportion to how much money you've contributed to the profits recently. If anything they seem to be too focussed on chasing monetisation opportunities at the expense of boring and non-lucrative bugfixing.
- fivedogit 12y agoIf you're Valve, a place where tons of people want to work and that has a solid revenue stream, I don't see why you can't have your cake and eat it too. Why not have a team of people who will do the boring, less-glamorous work with the aspiration of making it to the "A" team that gets to pursue whatever they want? Heck, I'd do it. That's how law firms work (i.e. making partner after a number of years and solid performance), but maybe software engineering doesn't work well that way.