You don’t really have to “hit it big” even moderate success (comparatively) is enough to pay the bills for a long while from what I’ve heard from a few indie devs online.

Code in general is proven not to be benign

There’s a case in the US right now where a woman murdered her 3 children and tried to kill herself.

Instagram conspiracies abound that she was innocent and it was actually the husband who did it all even though the defense isn’t even trying to claim she didn’t do it.

There’s some genuine medical malpractice shit from what it sounds like but that’s American healthcare for you.

That’s true, but we’re not at that point yet so… What is your point? They’ve managed to thrive as a private corporation up to this point, clearly everyone working there is making bank too and treated well. (From all accounts I’ve read) so I’d hope the incentive is higher to keep with the same philosophy for whoever comes after. Of course hard to say, can’t undercut the greed some people have for making more money then they literally could ever spend.

Valve has been around since 1996, Steam since 2003

Discord has been around since 2015 and was funded on VC money.

Kind of different situations lmao.