GabeN has pretty much all the moneys and doesn't seem to be the kind of guy who needs a dick shaped rocket to feel like his daddy loves him. The only way Valve is going anywhere is after he kicks it.

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.

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?

if microsoft bought valve, i would radicalize pretty badly. Not much else to do after ones only real hobby goes up in flames.

Also Gabe hates Microsoft, and Valve is a private company so he doesn't have to sell.

Obviously this is fake, but if it was spinning off steam from the game developer, then maybe?

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

Bandcamp used to be like that, ultimately it is a fundamentally empty promise, someday sooner than you think it will happen to valve. Enjoy it while it lasts but lets keep a keen eye on the future.

They are just covering what a rando on Xitter is saying. Sadly this is the news cycle nowadays:

Unverified / unknown person posts a claim on X > "news" websites write a 6 paragraph article about this single post

And instead of being critical, people just gobble up anything as if it was true.

Metro is owned by the Daily Mail Group, which is why they're so shit. It's an output for news-esque shitposting.

I'd believe in a Raytheon Kellogg's merger before I believed GabeN would sell to M$

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.

Microsoft sits on an incredible amount of cash. I've read that they could do nothing for a ridiculous time period like 50 or 100 years and still not go bankrupt.

I agree with you and that works in a sane economy. Thank fucking Christ that Elon isn't a big gamer....

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.