Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal

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Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal

Valve is still dealing with an antitrust lawsuit raised against Steam by Wolfire in 2021, and recently, some documents came to light that were mostly redacted but contained enough information for a few juicy tidbits to be revealed. One thing that was noted was Valve’s employee counts and how they were spread around the company. In a staggering revelation, it was shown that fewer than 80 employees worked on Steam in 2021 – and the number isn’t expected to have changed much.

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That Ratio, Though

Steam is maintained by a team of fewer than 80 people, which is pretty insane when you consider the traffic the platform gets. Every year, more than 10,000 games are released on the platform, and every day, millions of people use the popular PC storefront to buy and play games. By market share, it’s the biggest gaming platform on PC, and it’s well known for the regular and immense sales it holds.

In documentation revealed from the Valve vs. Wolfire lawsuit, which

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, it was revealed that in 2021, Valve employed 336 people, and just 79 of those were working on Steam. It was then noted that in 2021, 10,000 games were released on the platform – which means that the relatively small team must be using some insane operating model to keep on top of it all.

It’s safe to assume that means the 79 employees were (or are) split up between:

• Technical operations
• UI
• Networking
• Sales and purchasing
• Provider management
• Security
• CX
• Onboarding

And whatever else you might expect is required to run Steam. That’s a huge undertaking for such a small team, but Steam is number one, so I guess they’re not complaining.

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