laurenceOfSuburbia@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 13 hours agoThe current gaming situation right nowlemmy.worldimagemessage-square92fedilinkarrow-up1468
arrow-up1468imageThe current gaming situation right nowlemmy.worldlaurenceOfSuburbia@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 13 hours agomessage-square92fedilink
minus-squareericwdhs@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up9·10 hours agoI think it’s because it’s filled with competent people who genuinely like what they do. I definitely see that in their hardware division at least. Money isn’t so corrupting if it’s a tool to enable what you do and not the focus.
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-26 hours agoThe entire company is somewhere between 300-500 people. It literally fits into a few floors of a tower in Bellevue. Meanwhile… Microsoft essentially bought the land area of a mid sized US city, and turned it into a sprawling corporate complex. … and that is just their main campus. Microsoft literally runs a private shuttlebus system in the Seattle-Bellevue-Issaquah area, to get people into and out of their campuses. They then also have local private taxi services to get people from one building in a larger campus, to another. There’s your scale difference. Microsoft is essentially a semi-sovereign entity, occupies substantial territoty, got their own police too. … Valve has something like 5-10 concurrent floors in a single building that is basically on top of a shopping mall.
I think it’s because it’s filled with competent people who genuinely like what they do. I definitely see that in their hardware division at least. Money isn’t so corrupting if it’s a tool to enable what you do and not the focus.
The entire company is somewhere between 300-500 people.
It literally fits into a few floors of a tower in Bellevue.
Meanwhile… Microsoft essentially bought the land area of a mid sized US city, and turned it into a sprawling corporate complex.
… and that is just their main campus.
Microsoft literally runs a private shuttlebus system in the Seattle-Bellevue-Issaquah area, to get people into and out of their campuses.
They then also have local private taxi services to get people from one building in a larger campus, to another.
There’s your scale difference.
Microsoft is essentially a semi-sovereign entity, occupies substantial territoty, got their own police too.
… Valve has something like 5-10 concurrent floors in a single building that is basically on top of a shopping mall.