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[Draugoth]

 

[Sorcerer]

Gabe is already worth 5bn, a completely abstract sun of money that will never run out. He's got no real motivation to turn 5 into 20 and it's not like he thinks it'll end up in good hands.

I believe MS made the offer, I don't believe it'll happen

Gabe has access to every game on Steam (50,000) for free. What more does a man need???
I wonder how long it takes Gabe to scoll down to Z when he wants to play Zoo Tycoon?

 

[blue velvet]

Microsoft is shitting up the entire gaming industry before their inevitable death.

 

[SHA]

I don't think this is true at all.

But I could see Gabe retiring on $16bn in his lair in New Zealand.

If he can't count to 3, it's super easy for him to just run away cause he's running out of ideas, I mean he's pretty senile about making better games graphically, he'll just stick with his modest ideals, that's senile times 100, he should stay away from this industry or games won't get any better.

 

[Guilty_AI]

 

[SF Kosmo]

That feels crazy low when you compare to Activision. I don't think Valve is interested anyway

 

[baphomet]

Lol, how fucking stupid would you have to believe that.

They essentially get 30% of all PC games sales. So all the GTA's, Call of Duty's, Assassins Creeds, and so on, Valve gets 30% of that. All while spending literally $0 to develop or market any of it.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Lol, how fucking stupid would you have to believe that.

you will be surprised

 

[Topher]

 

[MayauMiao]

Dream? A nightmare.

 

[baphomet]

you will be surprised

Nah, this forum definitely doesn't surprise me with how stupid people can be.

But this is next-level stupid.

 

[adamsapple]

 

[MALpractice311]

Oh boy. I can't wait for M$ to buy another company and then bleed it dry to where it's worthless.

Fuck M$.

 

[Buggy Loop]

wrong thread >_<

 

[HeWhoWalks]

And yet, this will be as ignored as an obese hooker.

 

[//DEVIL//]

Thank god

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

I have no doubt Microsoft has tried to buy Valve countless times and the fact remains that Gabe isn't selling. Maybe he will one day. and MS will be the largest bidder. But a part of me also thinks he wants to keep the company small and private and will just pass it down to whoever is logically next in line to run the company

 

[IAmRei]

if this true, MS is such bastard these days....

 

[THE DUCK]

This fits with above:

They arent preparing on offer, they already offered them 30 billion, and the deal is already done, and Gabe is already on his private jet to his private island that he just bought with the bags of money he just received. Lol

 

[Kumomeme]

next : Microsoft approach Nintendo


OHH WAIT....

 

[THE DUCK]

next : Microsoft approach Nintendo


OHH WAIT....

I always thought if ms lost the battle with Sony, they would offer thier services exclusively to the next Nintendo console, or try and partner with them somehow.
But without a dedicated home console skew, and Nintendo needing them less than in the past, this seems a lot less likely.

 

[mansoor1980]

So I assume you hate video games then, huh?

joking

 

[thismeinteil]

Obviously not true, but that would be the start of the end for Steam.

 

[Kamina]

Sega on Wednesday then?

 

[bigdad2007]

The FTC and other regulators would never let it happen anyway. They barely were able to acquire Activision, buying another huge publisher and the biggest PC gaming store would be blocked.

 

[ahtlas7]

So this is how they plan to save the Xbox brand?

 

[violence]

Only 16b? This would have been a better buy than 70b for activision?

Also please don't be true.

 

[Valedix]

Some random twitter guy is a source now? Gaming journalism is an absolute joke.

 

[xrnzaaas]

From what I understand, they only sold 3 or 4 million steam decks. Love mine but I don't think the value hardware division is going to get anyone intersted in large profits that excited.
Nor do I think owning Half Life gets anyone that excited. So, ya, the storefront, which generates around 15 Billion a year in revenue, of which we know 70% goes to the game developers. So that leaves about 5 billion a year, minus costs on staff, overhead, servers, etc.
Not sure why 16 Billion wouldn't be a lot of money, depending on what the actual profit margins are.

I wouldn't look only at the revenue and profit margins, you'd be basically taking over the majority of how PC gaming is handled and Steam's owners must also have a really good incentive to be willing to sell their company, especially since Valve is not in any financial trouble.

 

[THE DUCK]

I wouldn't look only at the revenue and profit margins, you'd be basically taking over the majority of how PC gaming is handled and Steam's owners must also have a really good incentive to be willing to sell their company, especially since Valve is not in any financial trouble.

Well if I'm a Valve long time employee, and I have a bunch of stock, which may or may not be easy to change into cash, and ms comes in and makes this offer, it could mean millions in cash to a big group of employees. That might do it. But Gabe has to want to do it too, really probably only makes sense if he wants to retire.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

I don't know what he means by this. Does he mean that MS is actually preparing a $160B offer, a $1.6B offer, or there is no offer? He doesn't even remotely pretend to confirm or deny there is an offer...

 

[Hohenheim]

I don't know what he means by this. Does he mean that MS is actually preparing a $160B offer, a $1.6B offer, or there is no offer? He doesn't even remotely pretend to confirm or deny there is an offer...

He obviously means that there's no truth to the rumours,and that the rumours is plain false and very stupid.

 

[ricardo_sousa11]

16B is nothing considering Steam has PC gaming monopoly.

The CS2 skins market is porbably bigger than that alone

 

[THE DUCK]

He obviously means that there's no truth to the rumours,and that the rumours is plain false and very stupid.

That's the way I take it, unless he's being intentionally vague. Of course not sure MS tells Tom Warren everything they do, so there could still be truth to an offer even if Tom isn't in the know. Or maybe he has MS brass on speed dial.

 

[Akuji]

If valve is selling for 16b then maybe i can even get a Bank to give me the money for it. Lol way undervalued.

 

[baphomet]

Well if I'm a Valve long time employee, and I have a bunch of stock, which may or may not be easy to change into cash, and ms comes in and makes this offer, it could mean millions in cash to a big group of employees. That might do it. But Gabe has to want to do it too, really probably only makes sense if he wants to retire.

Gabe had 10's, possibly 100's of millions before he even started Valve. Steam has made him a multi-billionaire.

 

[THE DUCK]

Gabe had 10's, possibly 100's of millions before he even started Valve. Steam has made him a multi-billionaire.

So? Lucas was swimming in money and had a net worth of 3.3 billion and still sold his baby for 4 billion......

 

[CuteFaceJay]

TOO CHEAP! This is fake news.

 

[intheinbetween]

I love how a fake rumour as this generates even more hate towards MS on the bias, lol

 

[ArtHands]

Lol, how fucking stupid would you have to believe that.

They essentially get 30% of all PC games sales. So all the GTA's, Call of Duty's, Assassins Creeds, and so on, Valve gets 30% of that. All while spending literally $0 to develop or market any of it.

Don’t insult OP

 

[Gamezone]

How many times have we heard this rumors? Last time this happened I e-mailed Gabe and asked him if Microsoft was planning to buy Steam, and he even responded; "Not that I'm aware of. Probably would notice".

With that said, Gabe isn't getting any young er, and do we expect Steam to never be sold?

 

[Melter]

Oh god no

 

[CityHunter1981]

Would kind of make sense, now that Microsoft shifts away their business from consoles, they don’t want to loose part of their profit in the PC sales when selling through Steam…

 

[Gamezone]

TOO CHEAP! This is fake news.

Well... Disney paid $4 billion for Star Wars, so I guess everything is possible?

 

[SHA]

We ALL hope they'd never sell. Especially to MS.

Buying to close, isn't that obvious? , you only need an IQ of 3 to figure that that company are doubling down on something wouldn't even work, isn't that obvious, it's not a big family cause game pass will put the future of many studios at jeopardy.

 

[JohnnyFootball]

It boggles my mind how anyone with a functioning brain can make the argument that Microsoft buying Valve would be good for the gaming industry., especially with how badly they have fucked up every thing gaming related this past year.

Having said that I would love the OPTION to tie Steam achievements to Xbox achievements.

 

[Chukhopops]

Some random twitter guy is a source now? Gaming journalism is an absolute joke.

Well there were rumors here based on a Discord screenshot so… just another step in the endless race to the bottom.

 

[consoul]

Is something even a rumour if it's just some rando post on X?

This is nothing from nobody.

 

[FewRope]

Honey wake up, new crazy narrative just dropped

 

[Negotiator101]

Honey wake up, new crazy narrative just dropped