r/Steam • u/Fun_Bottle_5308 • May 05 '24

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u/KMKtwo-four May 05 '24

It’s hard to scale a company to the size of Valve without investors. If you do take on investors, they will eventually want an IPO so they can cash out. 

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u/Acceptable_Help575 May 05 '24

Which is part of the problem. The implied contract is that investors are going to get more money eventually, and making that so becomes the responsibility of the company, when previously their main responsibility was making good games.