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.
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.
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.
- Valve would have to agree.
- EA once tried to acquire Valve, but they declined saying “Valve would rather disintegrate than sell out”
Unlikely that they’ll even try, but if they do then watch proton get removed within the week.
I mean realistically they would buy anything if they could. That’s not that big of a surprise.
Wanting to buy and able to are two completly different things. I wouldn’t worry that much for now.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Well, remember that recent Microsoft leak that showed off a bunch of potential game releases?
In an email from Phil Spencer spotted by The Verge, there was talk about their plans including wanting to buy up the likes of Nintendo and even Valve with Spencer noting “But our BoD has seen the full writeup on Nintendo (and Valve) and they are fully supportive on either if opportunity arises as am I” (BoD being Board of Directors).
Not that Valve has any need at all to sell, they pretty much print money thanks to their 30% cut from most developers on Steam.
If the above ever were to happen, it’s not really likely they would continue all of Valve’s big investments into Linux given how even with the Steam Deck the market is small.
After all, Valve put all these resources into Linux because they don’t want to be entirely at the whims of Microsoft for their store, and Valve clearly want their own platform so Linux with Proton + Steam Deck is key to that.
So, Microsoft, please continue to keep your filthy hands off Valve (but keep putting your games on Steam okay?
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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.
