Hasn’t GabeN said on record that he would dissolve Valve before even considering selling it?
I wouldn’t be worried, in the same leak they expressed hopes of buying fucking Nintendo. Antitrust regulators would have a fucking field day.
Please God no. Valve is the only video game company I have any respect for. If they sell out, there will be nobody left. It’s a terribly sad time for video games at the moment, and I’ve been playing them for 40 years.
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Well, CD Projekt had the entire Cyberpunk launch fiasco and ID is now a part of Bethesda who basically ruined their IPs so I can see how you could lose respect for them
ID peaked with commander keen
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Valve is a private company, so we don’t know for sure how much they are worth, but if MS wanted to buy them, I’d wager my house that the figure would be way more then they spent/will spend on Activison. By a magnitude of 3 or 4 at least. Valve is a literal money printing machine. They make so much money that they don’t care that they have a squeal they could release that would make more money than damn near any other game ever released.
And for the record, I’m not saying Microsoft can’t afford them, just saying it would hurt to do so.
Yeah, would take ages to recoup the cost. Plus, you might not even recoup the cost as markets may change or Steam gets mismanaged by new management. Strategically Steam and Valve would also offer little advantage to Microsoft for the price.
- Valve would have to agree.
- EA once tried to acquire Valve, but they declined saying “Valve would rather disintegrate than sell out”
“Would buy Valve”
Yeah, no shit, so would I.
Who’d have thought that they have eyes and can do basic math?
Valve is a money printing machine with a ludicrously devoted client base, it’s a no brainer to want to buy it, but it’s not publicly traded so good fucking luck LMAO.
I mean realistically they would buy anything if they could. That’s not that big of a surprise.
Unlikely that they’ll even try, but if they do then watch proton get removed within the week.
You can’t just remove open source software, Proton will exist forever in some form with or without Valve
Gaming on Linux will kill Windows, Linux already owns internet so they want it.
Hold the line!!!
I was very skeptical Proton would work as well as it does but it really is a literal game changer.
Wanting to buy and able to are two completly different things. I wouldn’t worry that much for now.