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

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.

1. Valve would have to agree.
2. EA once tried to acquire Valve, but they declined saying "Valve would rather disintegrate than sell out"

"Would buy Valve"

Yeah, no shit, so would I.

Who'd have thought that they have eyes and can do basic math?

Valve is a money printing machine with a ludicrously devoted client base, it's a no brainer to want to buy it, but it's not publicly traded so good fucking luck LMAO.

I mean realistically they would buy anything if they could. That's not that big of a surprise.

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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Wanting to buy and able to are two completly different things. I wouldn't worry that much for now.