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npinskerlast Wednesday at 9:20 PM2 repliesview on HN

CS2 makes an enormous and non-negligible amount of money.


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mjr00last Wednesday at 9:23 PM

Dota2 as well. Like I'm sure CS2/Dota2 are small compared to Steam, but the revenue from these games alone dwarfs what most other companies are making.

wavemodelast Wednesday at 9:44 PM

Valve's financials are nonpublic, and any numbers you find are rough, indirect estimates.

In any case, my point was not that these games make no money, but simply that Valve doesn't need them. The total number of people buying games on Steam vastly dwarfs the number of people who play Dota 2 and CS2 (even just counting total players - how much more when you narrow down to players who spend money).