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> Steam is going to become the worlds most profitable, largest distributor of hardcore pornography overnight

MindGeek's (online porn conglomerate) annual revenue was $460 million in 2015.

Steam has 125 million active users. I doubt they will make an average of $3.68 per user on porn next year, considering the VR install base is small, and there is so much free online porn.

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VR install base is small, until Steam starts selling VR Porn video games.

Porn has a huge influence on technology. I won't be surprised if within the next few days, there's a huge surge on VR headset sales.

>MindGeek's (online porn conglomerate) annual revenue was $460 million in 2015.

I'm pretty sure that's literally in the realm of how much Valve makes selling hats and skins for CS:GO [0].

Porn is definitely bigger than Counterstrike. They're doing this for the money.

[0] https://www.hltv.org/blog/11798/how-much-money-valve-is-maki...

Sure, but they aren't going to overnight take 25% of the pornography business and become the largest porn distributor.

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