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Microsoft - keep your filthy hands off Valve, leak shows MSFT would buy Valve (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] theragu40@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Valve is a private company. Microsoft can't just buy Valve, Valve would have to agree to that. Considering Valve has (for a company their size) effectively unlimited resources already, and considering that Valve's founder and leader is a known detractor of Microsoft, this is a nothing story. Microsoft will not buy Valve. This is baseless musing, like how I sometimes daydream with my wife about what we'd do if we won the lottery (which we don't play).

Of course Microsoft would love to buy Valve. Just like they would love to buy Nintendo. I'd like to buy a Lamborghini. All these things are about equivalently likely, zero likely.

[–] ilikekeyboards@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gabe Newell will die one day and with him the age of gaming shall die as well.

Any other owner would sell out to the billions of amazon and microsoft.

[–] theragu40@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

We can only hope that there are people waiting in the wings at Valve who are ready to take over the reins whenever Gaben is done and carry the torch forward in the same direction.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago

Even if they were public, they would have to lose majority share of the company to lose control over whether msft can buy them.

But yeah, no shit they'd like to buy valve. Valve is positioned to eat their lunch in the gaming space.

[–] guitarx@metalhead.club 3 points 1 year ago

@theragu40 @boo I'd rather buy Valve than a Lamborghini. Just saying. 😆

[–] trollblox_@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

wtf they just had trouble buying Activision/Blizzard and now they wanna buy Valve. they would ruin valve

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, three years ago they contemplated buying Nintendo or Valve. Activision happened because those two didn't.

[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

Gotta obfuscate the fact that this is years old information to maximize the rage clicks.

[–] cooopsspace@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

There's no fucking way Japan would let go of Nintendo.

[–] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The money machine hungers for more. Never satisfied for more than a moment.

[–] sadreality@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

ohh hell no..... I am done with microshit

[–] kugmo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If MS did buy Valve would gamers finally rise up?

[–] SitD@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

gamers rise down 😂

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

What would "rising up" mean? So far, gamers have never shown a rebellious bone in their metaphorical (yet still emaciated) body. Every action by the gaming community has always been defined by corporations. Even gaming on linux is only viable because of valve.

[–] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I would just stop buying games. I'll only play old games and open source games, if Steam gets enshitificaties.

[–] prunerye@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Long live GOG.

[–] Prione@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If only they would support Linux / Proton officially even minimally...

[–] Privatepower42@fosstodon.org 1 points 1 year ago

@Prione @prunerye Itch.io is what you may like.

[–] boo@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

imo its not big/useful enough to matter. if it did, MS would have wanted to buy it as well :)

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

*Valve laughs in Gabe Newell, owner of Valve and former employee of Microsoft.

Motherfucker left Microsoft to focus on games. He spearheaded the move to Linux to protect their store from becoming blocked on Windows. He knows how Microsoft works, intimately.

I’d be really surprised if Valve got sold to Microsoft while Newell still lives.

[–] Erika2rsis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

got sold to Microsoft while Newell still lives.

Surely you mean while he's "Still Alive", right?

[–] vardogor@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 5 months ago)