Is Microsoft buying steam?

[Jade]

Is it true?

[BJWyler]

No.

As any of the dozen of other threads would have told you without needing to spam with another thread.

[VaLiuM]

It's not true and not the first time that rumor circulated around in the internet.

If you had made a quick search, you would have found all the other threads talking about it.

[Princess Luna]

Here we go again
Please used existing topics
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/4328600722523411635/
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/4328600722520002581/

[MrSteel300]

microsoft would just use steam to increase it's invasive data collection so honeslty users should object to it. They already filled COD with their dei agents and wasted money on bugthesda

[Aachen]

It’s much easier to buy water at a somewhat cooler temperature.

[The Commendatore]

No...

[xBCxRangers]

Being there has been no response from Valve or MS over this rumor as of yet, the responsible answer is......we just don't know. My "guess" is no, but who knows.

[kitt]

yes

[Ethanol]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM-e46xdcUo

[Nx Machina]

Has there being a defintive answer from Valve or Microsoft? No and why it is a rumour.

[xBCxRangers]

Originally posted by Nx Machina:

Has there being a defintive answer from Valve or Microsoft? No and why it is a rumour.

That's right. That's why we can't rule it out. It doesn't have to be Nardella, Spencer or Newell spending time denying it, but certainly someone, anyone from those companies could have. But they didn't.

[Nx Machina]

Originally posted by xBCxRangers:

That's right. That's why we can't rule it out. It doesn't have to be Nardella, Spencer or Newell spending time denying it, but certainly someone, anyone from those companies could have. But they didn't.

You can rule it out because a rumour is unsubstantiated gossip after all the rumour is the moon is made of cheese and the earth is flat.

Secondly as the acquisiton of Activision Blizzard nearly did not happen due to it being deemed a monopoly you can be sure the company who has the largest user base for a gaming os, Microsoft with Windows, and the largest game store, Valve with Steam, would be definitely be seen as a monopoly.

[xBCxRangers]

Originally posted by Nx Machina:

Originally posted by xBCxRangers:

That's right. That's why we can't rule it out. It doesn't have to be Nardella, Spencer or Newell spending time denying it, but certainly someone, anyone from those companies could have. But they didn't.

You can rule it out because a rumour is unsubstantiated gossip after the rumour is the moon is made of cheese and the earth is flat.

Secondly as the acquisiton of Activision Blizzard nearly did not happen due to it being deemed a monopoly you can be sure the company who has the largest user base for a gaming os, Microsoft with Windows, and the largest game store, Valve with Steam, would be definitely be seen as a monopoly.

We cannot rule out anything, being they did not rule it out. And knowing MS did want to buy Valve, by their own official emails they themselves leaked, if it doesn't happen now, i think it's inevitably going to happen.

We can rely on the FTC and CMA, and i do all the time, but on these matters, they have no hope in hell. MS is too big to fail. Too many jobs, and too much money for they to have gotten denied over the A/B matter.

And there are other gaming companies, not just A/B or, Steam.

If they want it, they're gonna get it. The question is, do they want it? And they answered their own question, thru their own emails. Mr Newell is aging.

Therefore, until it is denied by these parties, we cannot responsibly deny the rumor.

[Crazy Tiger]

Odd how you could deny all kinds of facts surrounding Win 7 and Steam for months, but somehow now it's not ok to deny a rumour?

[Nx Machina]

Originally posted by xBCxRangers:

We cannot rule out anything, being they did not rule it out. And knowing MS did want to buy Valve, by their own official emails they themselves leaked, if it doesn't happen now, i think it's inevitably going to happen.

We can rely on the FTC and CMA, and i do all the time, but on these matters, they have no hope in hell. MS is too big to fail. Too many jobs, and too much money for they to have gotten denied over the A/B matter.

And there are other gaming companies, not just A/B or, Steam.

If they want it, they're gonna get it. The question is, do they want it? And they answered their own question, thru their own emails. Mr Newell is aging.

Therefore, until it is denied by these parties, we cannot responsibly deny the rumor.

We can because the FTC dislikes businesses becoming monopolies.

Secondly with co-pilot and recall Microsoft tracks everything you do on your PC. Every mouse click, keyboard input, programs you open etc, literally everything, and you can thank Spycrosoft for that.