Valve's unique approach to corporate governance is probably the reason why it's such an efficient company.
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Revenue. Revenue is not profit.

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Correct. The article is discussing revenue.

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The headline is misleading, it was worth mentioning.

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It’s not misleading, you’ve just purposely ignored the meaning of the words to instead imply your own.

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Have you ever considered that different people can interpret things differently? Why are you jumping down someone’s throat for clarifying an ambiguous title?

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Is this fun for you?

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I don’t think it’s misleading, “generating” implies gross profit, not net. It’s not explicit, but it’s also not misleading.

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“Makes”.

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I “make” my gross pay. I don’t really talk about “making” my net pay. I don’t much think about my net pay, outside of actual budgeting.

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Again, implying gross profit, not net. It didn’t say “makes” 50 million profit. You are inferring something that is not otherwise implied.

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Considering that I’ve seen conflation of revenue and profit from actual journalists, I stand by my previous statement.

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Buddy. Take a breath for a moment. I mean this constructively; it’s an opportunity to learn.

What you’ve just said here is essentially this:

  1. Some journalists sometimes make errors.
  2. Therefore I choose to make an interpretive error.

Please remember, we all make errors (myself included). The best of us learn from them.

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Not just that but I mean journalism geez. I can’t think of a profession that has had more of a fall from grace in the last 20 years. Furthermore the implication here is video game journalism, which has always been the lowest form of Journalism.

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Nah he’s right. Nobody buys a widget for 5 bucks and sells it for 10 bucks and says, “I made 10 bucks”. By your rational I could buy a car new for 25 grand, sell it 10 years later for 12 grand and say I “made” 12 grand off it.
“Make” has typically implied profit for as long as I can remember.

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I interpreted it as profit.

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Then again, somehow I don’t expect Valve’s expenditures are that high, except download server costs.

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People are the biggest cost for sure. Then servers probably.

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Eh, that could also include sales revenue, of which Valve pays out 70% to right holders.

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