Originally posted by RP. at steampowered.com
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/1212/0 64.html
Forbes magazine have released an article on Valve software.
The article will also appear on the printed magazine that will be out on 12/12.
Anyway, some key points for those of you that are too lazy to read it:
1. Gabe have a 60" plasma at the office
2. Alien Swarm is almost done, and will
NOT be free
3. Valve will do at least $70 million in revenue this year, double last year's sales, with operating profit of $55 million.
4. If you want to sell your mod as stand alone game (and not share 50-50 with Valve) you have to pay 200,000$ licensing fee plus royalties in exchange for using the Source engine.
5. Newell was the 271st employee at Microsoft.
6. It took $40 million effort to make Half-Life 2.
7. Mods now provide 20% of Valve's total revenue