I’m a PC gamer and have been since I was a kid. It’s literally my number one thing I do when I have free time is get on some games and hang with the boys. It’s a big part of my life.
As game companies go, I don’t trust Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, Blizzard, Bethesda, Sony, Epic Games… It’s a long list. Valve is the only company I even kinda trust (Which isn’t even that much these days). If Microsoft bought Valve I’d probably never buy a PC game again. Because all the companies selling them would be companies I don’t wanna give money.
But it’s not true that they were buying it so it’s a moot point. Just wanted to rant. :)
Preach on man… I feel the same way. If microshit bought Valve, I’d never buy another thing on the platform. And you could effectively forget Linux gaming as well.
well, it’s not like existing contributions would disappear even if that happened; such is the beauty of open source
If Microsoft bought Valve I’d probably never buy a PC game again. Because all the companies selling them would be companies I don’t wanna give money.
What about itch?
Never thought they were.
As lucrative as Valve and Steam may seem to buy, even for 10x that amount, any analyst who is realistic about suggesting the purchase to another company would know that it isn’t worth it. Not that it’s a bad buy, but whoever can afford to buy it likely could not help themselves but fuck it up and run the whole operation to the ground.
I agree with you and that works in a sane economy. Thank fucking Christ that Elon isn’t a big gamer…
Elon was able to buy Twitter because it’s public, and it wasn’t making money.
Valve is a privately owned company, and I have a feeling they care a little about what they’re doing.
You can tell from his Elden Ring build.
Lol yea, I forgot what timeline we’re living in
The rag called metro making news from random stuff again, I see. This is not even news. It’s literally “reporting” that something is not happening.
Like this: “Intel not buying AMD for 6B$” Industry insiders report that Intel has decided not to buy their rivals for 6B$. The CEO of AMD has reportedly stated having no interest in selling to Intel. Their spokesperson, when confronted with this breaking news, replied “WTF have you been smoking, Pringles?” We will continue to report on this story as it continues to develop.
Metro is owned by the Daily Mail Group, which is why they’re so shit. It’s an output for news-esque shitposting.
There was some brief hullabaloo where some nobody on Xitter claimed M$ was considering the buying Valve for 12B$. No sources, no credibility, but some news sources started talking about it like it was news.
Steam has to be worth a lot more than 12 billion.
Considering what they paid for bethesda and co (7.5 bil) they should at least pay 100 bil.
They (estimations by random pages) already made a billion in revenue from cs cases in 2023.
No way they are <70 bil for the cash cow Steam is in comparison to ABK.Steam basically IS PC gaming, and probably has more active users than Xbox or Playstation, maybe even combined. There’s no way it’s worth any less than Activison Blizzard
I hearby announce that I am also not buying Valve & Counter-Strike for £12 billion. You heard it here first!
Thanks for the info. I totally assumed you were a rich billionaire mogul.
“Valve would rather disintegrate than sell out” I think that was their answer to rumours of an EA acquisition of Valve, and it seems to stay true to this day
Tim Schafer on why he sold out: “What if I had… a lot of money”.
Where’s Double Fine now?
Kellogg’s Cereal is not buying Raytheon Aerospace.
-equivalent headline
I’d believe in a Raytheon Kellogg’s merger before I believed GabeN would sell to M$
SpaceX will not be selling itself to Boeing, surprising absolutely nobody
Nah I’d believe that. That’s exactly the sort of four dimensional genius business move that Musk is known for.
I feel like Steam would make more than 12 billion pounds in the time it would take for a take over to finalize
valve is a fucking money printer
honestly would be funny if valve bought microsoft instead
(edit: typo and clarification)
We’d get to watch Microsoft somehow destroy it, which would be as amazing as it would be awful. They really know how to make a great product terrible.
Though, who am I kidding, they’d just close the entire thing down and expect people to switch to their store. That’s all capitalism’s “competition” is good for these days.
i for one would find it absolutely hilarious if valve just closed microsoft as a “redundant” or “vestigial”
big ole uno reverse card
Let’s hope for a future where SteamOS ushers in the Year of the Linux Desktop and SteamOS replaced Windows everywhere.
hot damn… dare i to hope? dare i to DREAM? you know what, if anyone could get linux to be supported everywhere, it’d probably be valve.
Ah, I misread(the y in “they” is missing and I got thrown off haha)
Dude that would be funny as hell and Microsoft fucking deserves it. They don’t make a single quality product; all they seem to be able to do is reskin a ‘90s Windows OS as a worse product for ten thousandth time and close competitors so they don’t need to do any real work.
Jesus christ what a nightmare suggestion. That would be the death of the last good site on the internet. The enshittification they would inflict upon us as they fire all the senior staff, “legally” and onesidedly change all the contracts you’ve signed without your consultation, prune content, discontinue support for features and gear (byebye linux users), and increase their cut of dev’s pie - it’d be truly legendary. Legenshitty, that’s how bad it would be.
Thousands would board the ships again. The stability of steam is a huge reason why I often buy games
At this point I wanna fucking die
Meh, the world is hell, but the games are cool and you can always just steal shit from the people who obviously don’t deserve your money. Really, everyone ought to be doing that on principle, to help bring them down, but try explaining actual morality to the church crowd lol
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12bil for steam? Nah man, its probably triple than that.
Activision, which is like Valve’s slower and far less intelligent cousin, sold for $59B. Valve would be worth orders of magnitude more than that.
It was 69B
Nice
Yeah, I now realize the article was talking £ not $
I’m sorry…ppl thought this was real? They paid like 60 something billion for blizz. VALVE is EASILY worth that, if not double.
So no Win11-only compatibility and copilot bloatware in Steam? What a sad day 🙁
Next in the news “water is wet”.
