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Valve's reported profit-per-head from Steam commissions is out there, and at $3.5 million per employee it makes Apple and Facebook look like a lemonade stand

No wonder Gabe Newell can afford all those boats.

But, as spotted by The Financial Times, one particular leaked document from the case got snatched back down before most people could notice it, one that supposedly shows Steam's commission revenues between 2009 and 2021. Related articles Now, it's important to emphasise—as the FT does—that this document has long since been yanked offline from where it originally leaked, meaning we can only go by the word of SteamDB's Pavel Djundik and the, um, r/FuckEpic subreddit that it's not some mad fake. Per the docs, Steam's commission revenue (the juicy cut it takes from sales on its platform) climbed from a mere $100 million (ish) in 2009 to a tough-to-fathom $2 billion in 2021, where the data ends.

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