[eropple]

I'm pretty sure it's not the talk you're thinking of, but Jeff Vogel (who has been mostly-successfully making indie games consistently since 1995) mentions it in this GDC vault talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stxVBJem3Rs

They were able to stop paying a third employee when they went to Steam. That's a lot of value to the business.

[cheez]

> They were able to stop paying a third employee when they went to Steam. That's a lot of value to the business.

They were able to stop paying? Doesn't that mean they make less money?

[Retric]

Revenue is fairly useless it’s profit that you care about. Having less employees also means less effort managing them.

[cheez]

Ah I see.

[eropple]

They also made more money, even with Steam's cut.

People are expensive. (Hence the whole "oncoming economic doom" thing.)