Almost certainly fake, but what a horrible thought.
As long as valve say no then they can offer all they like. That is the advantage of not being a publicly traded company!
That… weirdly… seems like a lowball given the recent success of the steam deck
Looking at the sales estimates, the numbers appear pretty modest compared to the other gaming devices. They’re probably under 5m units sold since early 2022.
EA is worth several times that and they don’t have the #1 PC games platform or any hardware
Valve should at least be in the same ballpark
Yeah, just saying that most of Valve’s value is probably in their software. Their hardware installed base is pretty small compared to others.
This is an AI generated article and has no basis in reality.
Oh thank miscellaneous diety. For fucks sake everything Microsoft touches turns to shit, especially when it comes to game platforms.
So they can burn it to the ground?
…they can’t even handle everything with Activision Blizzard. Jesus christ.
Do you think Gabe would even raise an eyebrow for such a pocket money offer? Or would he actually find enough effort to laugh at it?
Gabe used to work for Microsoft, I can’t imagine he’s eager to repeat.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabe_Newell
“He attended Harvard University in the early 1980s but dropped out to join Microsoft, where he helped create the first versions of the Windows operating system. He and another employee, Mike Harrington, left Microsoft in 1996 to found Valve, and funded the development of their first game, Half-Life (1998). Harrington left in 2000.”
Lol I would quit gaming
Imagine a timeline where this happens.
What if there was an open source Steam clone, where everything is federated, and you could add repos like on KDE Discover, GNOME Software or F-DROID’s Android client?
This would be awesome.
The “source” otherwise does nothing but give away cosmetic in-game items if you subscribe and tag a friend on X.
$16B for Valve ? Clown offer 🤡
In 2022, Blizzard was valued at $60B and had a gross profit of $5.4B. Valve almost certainly had a gross profit more than that (Microsoft estimated $6.5B in 2021). $16B would be such a laughably low figure for the company, especially since Microsoft bought Blizzard at $70B (market cap of $74B around the same time). Not to mention how low-risk Valve’s profit is.
Well… good thing I’ve been buying what I can through GOG… but this is terrible news, especially with the way Microsoft has been shutting down gaming studios recently.
Edit: meh, this just sounds like clickbait:
- The leak comes from an unknown and unreliable source in the gaming industry.
- Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard faced regulatory challenges, making the merger with Valve unlikely.
It’s an AI generated “article”, on a site that exclusively feeds headlines into AI to write “articles”.
So even if the original headline was - in the now-unknown wording - something rooted in reality, the generative shitcode has now turned both the headline and the content into utter derangement.
Please don’t
I’m a little surprised it’s that low. I mean, considering their cloud and hardware divisions they’d be getting, shouldn’t Valve pay a bit more than $16m to buy Microsoft?
They will buy it, then shut it down. Then people will finally buy games at the … window games store?
