You guys just don't understand anything. Valve is small company of about 160 employees. Newell most likely knows all his employees personally. This is probably smaller than the Killzone 2 team. In 2007, they had a revenue of $70 million. That's about 438 000 $ per employee. However, Valve is a private corporation owned by Newell. That guy is probably one of the richest guy in the video game industry. Valve is one of the few corporations in the industry that only produce commercial hits like Blizzard and Nintendo.
I could say a lot about Valve because I studied Steam as part of innovation class at school but I think if you make some research, you could figure out what is valve business model by yourself.
How many cups of darkness have I drank over the years? Even I don't know...
