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http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Forbes released a list of the one hundred richest people in the country rounded to the nearest hundred million, which is a marginal round off that is more money than most people will ever get the chance to even imagine. In the revised list, Valve's head of state has been crowned the 97th richest person in America, due to Valve's immense popularity with its storefront and hat retailer.

Forbes estimates Newell's worth at $55 billion.

Damn O_O



edit:

5.5 not 55.

$5.5 billion afaik.

It's 5.5 billions...

It's gotta be 5.5 billion because last year he was at 4.1B.

Damnit GI, you had one job!

 

[Nintendo's Witch]

Good for him.

 

[cackhyena]

How many knives can I buy with that.

 

[PhilipDoesMatter]

Could buy an island for refugees.

 

[Moose Biscuits]

The power of hats

 

[Kiru]

$5.5 billion afaik.

 

[Hazu]

It's 5.5 billions...

 

[thequickandthedead]

Didn't even know you could become that rich off video games

edit: oh it's 5.5 not 55

 

[Carl]

He can fund Half Like 3 then

 

[Alethebeer]

5.5 i think, article is incorrect.

EDIT: beaten.

 

[DonF]

America's #1 hat store

 

[@ShenmueGuru]

Gabe, I loved Half Life! If you could see your way to clearing the $5000 debts I have, it would be life-changing.

Thanks buddy.

 

[Dusk Golem]

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[elyetis]

Still not enough to allow Valve to grow in size.

 

[ashecitism]

5.5 not 55.

 

[LiK]

He can buy so many knives.

 

[lazygecko]

How many knives can I buy with that.

How many knife manufacturers can you buy with that?

 

[hitme]

You know what I can do with all that money?

Make Half Life 3.

 

[Thatanas]

Didn't even know you could become that rich off video games

Well, technically he became rich of a service revolving around video games.

 

[Ahasverus]

Still can't donate 100M (which is a 0.02% of that fortune) to make HL3 for the fans who allowed him to be that rich.

Not that he wouldn't turn a profit either.

Rich people, I'll never understand.

 

[Dubz]

It's gotta be 5.5 billion because last year he was at 4.1B.

 

[valkillmore]

He gave me half life 2.

I love him. Get paid, breh

 

[SpaceWolf]

Give us Half Life 3, Newell.

 

[OCD Guy]

Steam Sales get shittier, Gabe get's richer...Makes perfect sense lol

 

[FlutterPuffs]

Wonder if he still has some stocks at Microsoft.

 

[Dusk Golem]

Hey everyone, this is Dusk Golem aka AestheticGamer. I have posted on NeoGAF since 2011, and have decided to resign. I have enjoyed posting about horror games here for years, but I no longer wish to support the site and will be leaving for good. I will still be around the internet, I go by AestheticGamer on YouTube, I make games on Steam as Yai Gameworks, and I plan to go by Dusk Golem on other forums. I'll be joining an off-set of the GAF community leaving to try other ventures like ResetEra (Official Twitter for that here: https://twitter.com/reseteraforum ). I hope some of you who read this may consider it, and I plan to try to expose more people to horror games in the years to come. Just not here.

I hope you all are having a good day, and know I always loved the community, and in the end it's the community I'm going to stick with, not the site itself. If you want to follow me, my official Twitter is here: https://twitter.com/AestheticGamer1

 

[SkullplateMurray]

Game Informer fucked up the decimal point.

It's 5.5

 

[Peltz]

Insane wealth

 

[bionic77]

If Valve is that rich why don't they spend some of that money making some games?

They can certainly afford it.

 

[Riptastic]

$5.5 billion afaik.

55 billion according to the article.

 

[ChazGW7]

All this dolla and still a bare bones CSGO dev team, gg gabe

 

[Sulik2]

And he still can't get Half-Life 3 made.

And Valve is a privately traded company. If he went public I wonder if he could pass Bill Gates as the wealthiest man on earth.

 

[Dusk Golem]

Hey everyone, this is Dusk Golem aka AestheticGamer. I have posted on NeoGAF since 2011, and have decided to resign. I have enjoyed posting about horror games here for years, but I no longer wish to support the site and will be leaving for good. I will still be around the internet, I go by AestheticGamer on YouTube, I make games on Steam as Yai Gameworks, and I plan to go by Dusk Golem on other forums. I'll be joining an off-set of the GAF community leaving to try other ventures like ResetEra (Official Twitter for that here: https://twitter.com/reseteraforum ). I hope some of you who read this may consider it, and I plan to try to expose more people to horror games in the years to come. Just not here.

I hope you all are having a good day, and know I always loved the community, and in the end it's the community I'm going to stick with, not the site itself. If you want to follow me, my official Twitter is here: https://twitter.com/AestheticGamer1

 

[johannesbergcrantz]

Hoh-ouch, good for him.
And thank you Valve for all the good stuff.

 

[Wereroku]

Sad he doesn't use any of that to hire a larger support team for Valve. Wonder when they will start allowing fans to volunteer to run their support lines for them.

 

[Sponge]

He can fund Half Like 3 then

.

 

[johancruijff]

bring back the Supersonics, Gabe

 

[EatChildren]

Tried to count to 3 and accidentally wound up at 55,000,000,000

 

[Spikematic]

Wow, that's a pretty big error. They need better copy editors!

 

[Nintendo's Witch]

If Valve is that rich why don't they spend some of that money making some games?

They can certainly afford it.

They have found other much more profitable business models.

 

[jacobeid]

Sad he doesn't use any of that to hire a larger support team for Valve. Wonder when they will start allowing fans to volunteer to run their support lines for them.

.

Lol 55 and 5.5 billion are *very* different!

 

[Savitar]

And he still can't get Half-Life 3 made.

And Valve is a privately traded company. If he went public I wonder if he could pass Bill Gates as the wealthiest man on earth.

The problem stopping them is how are they going to put micro transactions in Half Life 3 and not anger people?!

Wait...maybe customer made crowbars that cost 2.50!

 

[ashecitism]

55 billion according to the article.

https://www.forbes.com/profile/gabe-newell/

 

[johannesbergcrantz]

The source they're citing, Forbes, says $5.5 billion.

Game Informer fucked up.

Sounds a bit more reasonable to be honest. But still, go Gabe.

 

[TheMan]

Damn, I figured he was rich but that's fuck you money right there.

 

[Huevos de Oro]

He loaded.

 

[KOHIPEET]

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer



Damn O_O

At least he can live a Full Life

 

[Wereroku]

.

Lol 55 and 5.5 billion are *very* different!

Ok I didn't make the OP. Honestly though just a portion of that could fund a full support team.

 

[Nintendo's Witch]

American billions doesn't even make sense anyways.

Spoiler

😉

 

[Dr.Phibes]

If Valve is that rich why don't they spend some of that money making some games?

They can certainly afford it.

As someone who owns a Vive, I'm happy about their current direction.