You said it yourself: Valve doesnât earn anything from trades outside their platform. So why are you advising founders to pander to so called âearly adoptersâ who arenât bringing in revenue? The âwhalesâ are not making money for Valveâthey collect commission from item trades and sell microtransactions. Those users hoarding their wealth are bad news.
Next you say Valve doesnât control their own ecosystem, yet the article is literally about Valve exerting control over the market which they created.
Youâre drawing too many parallels between a sandboxed market economy (go read about how Valve has/had an economist-in-residence) and starting SaaS companies.
This article is full of contradiction.
You said it yourself: Valve doesnât earn anything from trades outside their platform. So why are you advising founders to pander to so called âearly adoptersâ who arenât bringing in revenue? The âwhalesâ are not making money for Valveâthey collect commission from item trades and sell microtransactions. Those users hoarding their wealth are bad news.
Next you say Valve doesnât control their own ecosystem, yet the article is literally about Valve exerting control over the market which they created.
Youâre drawing too many parallels between a sandboxed market economy (go read about how Valve has/had an economist-in-residence) and starting SaaS companies.