I’m sorry…ppl thought this was real? They paid like 60 something billion for blizz. VALVE is EASILY worth that, if not double.
Also Gabe hates Microsoft, and Valve is a private company so he doesn’t have to sell.
I fear the day that man dies. I hope I have lost interest in gaming at that point.
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Obviously this is fake, but if it was spinning off steam from the game developer, then maybe?
$12b seems far too low by that comparison. 30% of all games sales would be an outrageous annual figure.
If steam is included, 12b is a joke, if just valves game rights, meaning HL and CS, then the price is not THAT stupid (still quite).
Maybe this would be the way go get HL3, it would ofc be horrible cashgrab, but HL3 would be out.
Edit: bit details, in 2021 Valve had $10b revenue from steam, and $3b revenue from other sources (heh, source, get it)
“Valve would rather disintegrate than sell out” I think that was their answer to rumours of an EA acquisition of Valve, and it seems to stay true to this day
Bandcamp used to be like that, ultimately it is a fundamentally empty promise, someday sooner than you think it will happen to valve. Enjoy it while it lasts but lets keep a keen eye on the future.
It’ll probably happen when GabeN dies or retires.
Hopefully long down the road, it’s just especially after Bandcamp it’s fresh in my mind that this is never a guarantee.
Tim Schafer on why he sold out: “What if I had… a lot of money”.
Where’s Double Fine now?
Kellogg’s Cereal is not buying Raytheon Aerospace.
-equivalent headline
I’d believe in a Raytheon Kellogg’s merger before I believed GabeN would sell to M$
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.
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I hearby announce that I am also not buying Valve & Counter-Strike for £12 billion. You heard it here first!
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.
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.
valve is a fucking money printer
honestly would be funny if valve bought microsoft instead
(edit: typo and clarification)
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 feel like Steam would make more than 12 billion pounds in the time it would take for a take over to finalize
Never thought they were.
I really hope the FTC would block that (if it were to actually happen)…
Who the fuck believed they were? 🤣
I was scared high-lord Gaben died or needed all the money.
