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Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees
(arstechnica.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
That is exactly the point of post. You don't need tenns of thousands of people to run some servers.
You do need employees and valve contracts them instead of hiring directly.
This is the detail people are missing or ignoring in their circle jerk of valve here.
Then I will repeat YOUR question:
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