The "article" assumes Valve would otherwise pay to have the translations done. This is a questionable assumption.
Agreed. If they weren't going to do it anyway it's actually rather helpful of them to make it possible for the text to be translated by whoever volunteers to do so.
Issac Newton believed in alchemy and conducted all sorts of pseudo-scientific experiments in nonsense. Edison spent the last years of his life working on a spook phone to talk to the dead. Orson Scott Card is a Mormon and says bad things about gay people.
Interesting that you would compare believing in alchemy and working on a "spook phone" with being a member of a particular religion with over 13 million members.
People start saying and believing stupid shit when they pass their prime.
Obviously alchemy is bunk, but just because you don't agree with something doesn't mean it's stupid.
"When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical." -- Jon Carroll