Valve is a private company. Microsoft can’t just buy Valve, Valve would have to agree to that. Considering Valve has (for a company their size) effectively unlimited resources already, and considering that Valve’s founder and leader is a known detractor of Microsoft, this is a nothing story. Microsoft will not buy Valve. This is baseless musing, like how I sometimes daydream with my wife about what we’d do if we won the lottery (which we don’t play).
Of course Microsoft would love to buy Valve. Just like they would love to buy Nintendo. I’d like to buy a Lamborghini. All these things are about equivalently likely, zero likely.
Gabe Newell will die one day and with him the age of gaming shall die as well.
Any other owner would sell out to the billions of amazon and microsoft.
We can only hope that there are people waiting in the wings at Valve who are ready to take over the reins whenever Gaben is done and carry the torch forward in the same direction.
Even if they were public, they would have to lose majority share of the company to lose control over whether msft can buy them.
But yeah, no shit they’d like to buy valve. Valve is positioned to eat their lunch in the gaming space.
@theragu40 @boo I’d rather buy Valve than a Lamborghini. Just saying. 😆
wtf they just had trouble buying Activision/Blizzard and now they wanna buy Valve. they would ruin valve
No, three years ago they contemplated buying Nintendo or Valve. Activision happened because those two didn’t.
Gotta obfuscate the fact that this is years old information to maximize the rage clicks.
There’s no fucking way Japan would let go of Nintendo.
The money machine hungers for more. Never satisfied for more than a moment.
ohh hell no… I am done with microshit
If MS did buy Valve would gamers finally rise up?
gamers rise down 😂
What would “rising up” mean? So far, gamers have never shown a rebellious bone in their metaphorical (yet still emaciated) body. Every action by the gaming community has always been defined by corporations. Even gaming on linux is only viable because of valve.
I would just stop buying games. I’ll only play old games and open source games, if Steam gets enshitificaties.
Long live GOG.
imo its not big/useful enough to matter. if it did, MS would have wanted to buy it as well :)
If only they would support Linux / Proton officially even minimally…
*Valve laughs in Gabe Newell, owner of Valve and former employee of Microsoft.
Motherfucker left Microsoft to focus on games. He spearheaded the move to Linux to protect their store from becoming blocked on Windows. He knows how Microsoft works, intimately.
I’d be really surprised if Valve got sold to Microsoft while Newell still lives.
got sold to Microsoft while Newell still lives.
Surely you mean while he’s “Still Alive”, right?
