Microsoft wants to buy Valve ?!

[Fruit]

Please do not let microsoft do this, they will do anything with valve and in addition they will have steam. I am sure that if microsoft buy valve steam will become null and there will be even subscriptions to pay to play online.Microsoft are capable of that while it is still time it must say a valve "DO YOU SELL NOT A MICROSOFT!

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

1. No Valve employees are here.....this is a user forum.
2. Source?

[Mikasa Ackerman]

lmao , Valve would rather buy Xbox and then just take down the Online features and just put a " get a PC c*nts " message on the main Page than MS would buy Valve , MS is like Nintendo they dont know what people want and are only alive because of how big they are

[Crystal Sharrd]

I heard rumors they wanted to buy EA.
Edit: They're just rumors.
https://pcgamesn.com/microsoft-acquiring-ea-valve-pubg-corp

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Buying off Steam could mean all the indie publishers would be forced to submit to ESRB censorship, games that would not pass their rules would get banned, etc.
ESRB is mandatory for the UWP store, and clicking the content rating will open up the ESRB site without an exit disclaimer.

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Originally posted by Robin3sk:

Gabe says no.

Do you have an up-to-date statement alluding to this?

[ReV0LT]

I don't know why but lately I've been seeing people in the industry talking about Microsoft planning to go on a buying spree.

Here's another article I found analyzing this.

https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/30/16932860/xbox-microsoft-exclusive-games-acquisitions-ea-valve-pubg

[Crystal Sharrd]

Originally posted by ReV0LT:

I don't know why but lately I've been seeing people in the industry talking about Microsoft planning to go on a buying spree.

Here's another article I found analyzing this.

https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/30/16932860/xbox-microsoft-exclusive-games-acquisitions-ea-valve-pubg

That's the original article quoted by the article I posted.

[Ogami]

Not gonna happen.
Gabe Newell does not like Microsoft. At all. That was the reason he created Valve and Steam after leaving Microsoft.
There is also no way of a hostile takeover in this case because Steam is not traded at the stock exchange. There are no shares to buy.
If Gabe Newell does not want to sell, then that is it. And why should he sell? He already IS filthy rich because of Steam. What has Microsoft to offer? More money?

The rumors about Microsoft targeting Electronic Arts seem much more probable.

[ReV0LT]

Originally posted by sonic65101:

Originally posted by ReV0LT:

I don't know why but lately I've been seeing people in the industry talking about Microsoft planning to go on a buying spree.

Here's another article I found analyzing this.

https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/30/16932860/xbox-microsoft-exclusive-games-acquisitions-ea-valve-pubg

That's the original article quoted by the article I posted.

Interestingly, I heard about this rumour much earlier than Polygon, in one of Paradox' podcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUrQqsM4m54&t=23s

Starting at 34:50 (it's also an interesting analysis)

Originally posted by Ogami:

Not gonna happen.
Gabe Newell does not like Microsoft. At all. That was the reason he created Valve and Steam after leaving Microsoft.
There is also no way of a hostile takeover in this case because Steam is not traded at the stock exchange. There are no shares to buy.
If Gabe Newell does not want to sell, then that is it. And why should he sell? He already IS filthy rich because of Steam. What has Microsoft to offer? More money?

The rumors about Microsoft targeting Electronic Arts seem much more probable.

Much more probable but much more costly.

What COULD potentially happen is that EA sheds off some of it studios, but I think it's too late by now.

I think what's more probable is Microsoft gobbling up smaller studios again, or they'll go for medium size publishers.