2y ago

Microsoft - keep your filthy hands off Valve, leak shows MSFT would buy Valve

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There’s no chance GabeN sells Steam. It prints money and only looks to increase their profitability over the coming years.
Microsoft can’t buy them anyways at this point I think. The regulatory bodies didn’t like ActiBlizzard, and this would be similar scale, if not larger
- I do worry about what might happen when he gets too old/decides to step down though.
  If Microsoft did somehow end up buying them I might have to just nope out of gaming altogether. Or just take to the high seas I guess.
  
  I have to imagine he has something planned (inb4 GabeN AI Overlord) for after he’s gone.
  He’s a bit crazy about prepping for disaster iirc. He lives in New Zealand now and has since the Covid outbreak. I’d be surprised if there wasn’t a very long document that lays out a lot of rules for if he’s gone and Steam is to continue
  
  At that point I'll probably too old and have lost interest in gaming anyway, so I'll just let the next generation of gamers figure it out themselves. Kinda like boomers leaving us to deal with high property price problem because it's no longer their concern anymore.
  
  You do know that stores other than Steam exist, right?
  And no, I'm not talking about the EGS.
- The regulatory bodies didn’t like ActiBlizzard,
  But they did allow it, unfortunately. And MS could simply argue that it already has dominance in the PC space as 96% of PC gamers are Windows users. So owning Steam is just buying 1 out of many stores (here they tout Epic, Amazon, etc).
  I mean it's a bad argument but MS made a lot of bad arguments to get their way and they seemingly worked.
  
  Activision-Blizzard-King isn't a dominant company in any segment. You can't say the same for steam. Regulators would have a much easier time blocking such an acquisition.
- The regulatory bodies hand waved actiblizzard through. Let's not pretend anything else happened there. Microsoft can do whatever they want and no one is gonna stop them. Same as every other big company.
  The only thing stopping Ms. is that valve is a privately owned company. But everyone has a price.
  
  The same regulatory bodies that sued to block the deal without any convincing case "handwaved" it?
- Sensationalist media will grab at anything, really.
  I mean, the Nintendo thing started with an email Phil Spencer replied to titled "random thought," and the email was basically a lot of "Yeah that sounds great, but here's why it's not going to happen. But sure, though, it would be nice to own Nintendo, and I know a guy who's been trading some of their stock if you wanted to maybe buy some."
  
  Nintendo is at least publicly traded. Valve doesn't need shareholders.
Chill. Valve is not a public company, so no risk of an acquisition.
- Private companies get acquired all the time and hostile takeovers haven't really been a thing since the 1980s
there was an interesting take about that on the wan show (not ms but steam). the emphasis was on steam's value, which is unknown but actually very high
Who cares valve hasn't really done anything in years anyway aside from steam deck
- Me. I care. I like valve just the way it is.
  
  I like the way they used to be, when they made games
- I like what they're doing with Steam as a platform, the Steam Deck is fantastic, and their contributions and support of Proton is huge.

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