That actually makes a lot of sense given the fact that i havent heard about massive steam data centers. I suppose they just rent their servers from data centers around the world. Which actually is very suprising. I imagine at their scale making their own data centers would save them money.

Actually i just think they must subcontract a lot of their daily operation. I refuse to belive such low numbers are enough to even handle the complaints from stolen shipments and broken devices not to mention all the other complaints. It is more than enough to actually develop the platform but surely not to handle day to day operations.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

I remember reading that having a version keyword in your user alias would cause issues with steam, and it was actually because it was a blocked word on CloudFlare where they store/pull a bunch of steam data from

[–] Excrubulent 2 points 4 months ago

I suspect subcontracting is how they get around the lasseiz-faire nature of employment there. There's a famously open policy where nobody tells anyone what to do.

But I imagine that policy can't extend to subcontractors. There it's "here's money, make the servers happen".