Earlier this week, it was rumoured that Microsoft is interested in acquiring Electronic Arts or Valve. And while such a scenario seems unlikely, Gabe Newell responded to a fan who emailed him, asking whether the company was being bought by Microsoft. And… well… his answer will not shock you.
As Gabe Newell said, Valve is not being bought by Microsoft.
And that is that. I mean, did you seriously believe that Valve would be bought by Microsoft? Yes, Microsoft has a lot of money to spend but I’m pretty sure that Valve is making a lot of money right now thanks to Steam. Hell, the company does not even have to develop any game right now thanks to its distribution service so there is no sense at all for Microsoft to even attempt to acquire it (unless of course it has plans to merge the Windows Store with Steam).
For what it’s worth, Valve is currently working on Artifact; an upcoming Dota 2-themed card game that is set to release later this year. Artifact will feature lanes, use heroes such as the Bounty Hunter, and have cards like barracks that push creeps down lanes.
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ill be happy all year if gaben emails me he he
I can’t give a sht! They made their store into a garbage heap, left games half complete, left making games for the most part, promotes lootbox gambling and knife stickers. At this point I hope everyone just moves over to GOG. *sigh me with my unrealistic dreams.
Lol what?
It’s best not to even bother with this one PB, I fear for your mental health.
I was thinking the same thing lmao
Gog is meehhh stay there alone
CSGO has knife stickers? i need me some
If Microsoft were to buy Valve, it would force us to pay to play online.
Cuz no one is using it, if it was a success (even slightly) they wouldn’t hesitate.
That obvious thought hadn’t occurred to dear old Squify!
Well maybe, but they never learn.
People are using it but the problem is that there’s no reason to. If you are going to force me to use UWP which doesn’t support screenshots or overlays or Share or any other feature, I’m just going to play the game on console until it’s on Steam. Which I think is why they did it.
Not really, they don’t. screenshots or overlays are small things compared to the game folder itself, you can’t even touch that or any file in it.
Gabe is love. Gabe is life.
It would be sick if Microsoft bought valve.
Think of THE CONSOLE EXCLUSIVE GAMES VALVE WILL MAKE.
PAID ONLINE.
THIS FAT BA$TARD REALLY NEEDS SOME COMPETITION
im getting really tired of you.
OR PAY A TRUCK LOAD OF MONEY
Nah, that’s not happening.
Gabe said in 2012 that it’s more likely that Valve would “disintegrate” and everyone would leave than that they’d sell the company.
And sheer money won’t change that without Gabe’s approval since Valve is privately held and he holds a majority stake in the company.
Seriously, if you believe that then you are delusional!
Not sure if you’re dumb or smart. Which person are you agreeing with?
Well,the 2018-2019 is not the same as 2012.
People can be changed years after years.
If Gabe Newell will be bored some day,then he can sell Valve to anyone who can afford.
But this is a rumour,like that fake news with buying EA (who looks like they’re stock has big grown since then).
People don’t sell companies that make them filthy billionaires because they are “bored.”
btch, steam prints money.
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ANYONE VISITING “KNOW YOUR MEME” TO PUT THEIR ARGUMENT FORWORD IS WAY MORE IMMATURE AREN’T YOU THE SAME ALEX JONES’S IDIOT
lol, what :*)
OR PAY A TRUCK LOAD OF MONEY
Hope this Will NEVER happen.
TRUE, MS don’t need to buy Value for billions… They simply remove support of Win32 apps in future release of Windows “Home edition”
In next 10 years many new computers will be sold with “Windows 10 S” which is new “Home Edition”. It take few years then MS will stop selling classic Windows in Home edition and will support Win32 only in Pro and Enterprise versions.
This is best strategy for MS.
Being huge jackasses was always MS major strategy alright
MS already said that Office 2019 (which will be released in late 2018) won’t support Windows 7 or 8.1 because app use new features of Windows 10. Windows 10 will be required to install new Office.
MS will end support of Windows 7 in January 2020, and nobody use Windows 8.x. So in 2020 there will be only one version of Windows.
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And that’s 100000% not relevant to anyone.
Companies do not operate on new MS software. They do not use Windows 10 and will not be using Office 2019. You have no clue what you’re talking about.
Any major company has to subject software to thorough TSS adoption processes. Windows 10 has to be tested to be compatible with mission critical applications. New application versions have to be tested to be compatible with hardware and software.
The biggest companies on the planet, MS biggest customers and biggest source of income, are still running on Windows 7.
He’s trolling, mate. He’s not the smartest of Xbots.
🙁 ugh.
When the ‘special’ bunch that is Kim Kardashian West, MrSquifler and Sp4ctr0 and in broad agreement then you know their shared opinion is going to be especially dumb! ?
Oh. I don’t know the site well enough yet to know who the trolls are other than that one moron, not sure his name but he’s not commented on this article yet.
Yea I have a source I’ve worked in IT for over 20 years. AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner, JPMorgan Chase, FMC Technologies, Bethesda, Microsoft, Kroger, Hill-Rom, Walmart, GE, GameStop, and every company I’ve ever worked at or seen uses it.
You’re a completely delusional, hilariously ignorant moron if you think anyone needs to provide evidence for that statement. It’s a known fact. You don’t have a realistic option, as a business, for your software solutions except Microsoft – at the very least for your OS if nothing else.
WTF are you 7? Have you ever had a job? Do you think MS is just a gaming company? Seriously educate yourself, you disgust me.
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You know – your point would sound less.. well.. crazy if you yourself sounded a little less hysterical. Try calming down a bit. Also, self-citing isn’t really ‘evidence’ – it’s anecdotes.
The fact is this month, Win 10 just passed Win 7 in terms of market share. Unless you believe that’s 100% consumer devices, then Win 10 has to be making headway into enterprise systems. It’s just math.
And with Microsoft soon discontinuing support for 7, businesses will have to make a decision of a one time pain of upgrade vs increased risk of attack. The company I work for, for example, is still on 7 because we have a core bit of 20 year old software we can’t replace… so we’re rewriting the whole thing and once done, we’re switching to Win 10.
You have no clue what you’re talking about. Businesses don’t get support from MS in almost all cases, that’s why they have IT departments. A lot of them are still on XP. And no, Windows 10 is definitely not passing Windows 7 in market share. There are over a billion devices with Windows 7 on them.
That’s not an opinion. You are the dumbest person on this site buddy. Also, you just undermined your own point. Whether a company is moving to 10 or not, they’re STILL USING MICROSOFT SOFTWARE.
And it is fact. We work in this industry. We don’t need to prove anything to plebeians because it’s reality.
Idiot. Off yourself.
Ms is failing everywhere, especially xbox.
Who cares about bloat Office 2019-2020-2050?
Windows 7 will live very well after end support in 2020.
Windows 7 EOL was literally 3 years ago you idiot. 2020 is extended support – it’s not even used in most cases.
Yea you do realize that would literally never happen, right?
Do you even know what win32 apps are? Or know anything?
There would be more lawsuits than you could possibly ever count. Microsoft would explode.
That’s weak sauce trolling even by your pitiful standards. gg
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It’s the best strategy to push us all on to Linux.
Except they’re going to roll S into regular Windows in the Spring release and rather than sidegrading to get Pro or Home if you have S, you can just flip a switch and reboot (or flip the switch the other way and turn Home or Pro into S).
So.. there’s that idea gone.
Whoever believed that is just plain retarded or something.
Sp4ctr0 Spencer believes it, so…
That basically proves i’m correct then?
Precisely!
The community was never shaken.
If you think Gabe Newell would sell his LIFE’s legacy to Microsoft, the company he left and then became a billionaire because of that work, you are the dumbest person that has ever been dumb.
Only the stupidest of the stupidest PC gamers ever did anything but laugh at this rumor.
It’s shaken at NeoGAF 2.0.
NeoGAF aren’t people. And their opinion doesn’t matter. No PC gamer, even among the dumb hordes of casuals that Reddit has poured into our community, is stupid enough to think this.
MS and EA tried to buy Valve years ago. I’m so glad that Valve is private.
Valve also has 3 VR games in development we’ve been over this.
It’s not a huge mess at all. Just because stupid crybaby casuals like you are too lazy and useless to use the tools built in to the store doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with the software.
Hear, hear.
Get off of PC. You don’t belong here.
“did you seriously believe that Valve would be bought by Microsoft?”
Nope, but nor did I imagine that Lucas would sell Star Wars, Indiana Jones, etc, to Disney. Nor did I imagine that Disney would ruin Star Wars more effectively than Jar Jar Binks ever did!
“barracks that push creeps down lanes”
Note to Obama: Trump already did that to the Clintons!
I saw Disney ruining Star Wars the moment I read the news of the sale. The desperate claims of “but they also did Black Pearl!” were proven to be just that, as I suspected, ultimately; desperate excuses, much like the morons who now desperately attempt to justify how Discovery is “real Star Trek” by mashing together sad, weak, pathetic excuses about how “everyone has a different view of what’s “real” Star Trek” and some such bullsh*t.
Though, I admit the Star Wars sale itself was quite unexpected, I always figured Lucas was a spiteful f*cker who was going to take it all to the grave with him in order to get back at us for hating his piece of sh*t prequel trilogy.
On that latter point, I read a few weeks ago that Disney are planning to release the original trilogy in pre-Special Edition form on Blu-ray Disc. Here’s hoping it’s not ruined by the same godawful oversaturated colours we saw in the Special Edition release on Blu-ray Disc.
If they mess it up again then at least we still have Harmy and co.’s wonderful unofficial versions available to download.
Na, the terrible colour correction dates back to the original 2003 DVDs; Lucas gave them something like 30 days to scan in all the footage and get the whole job done (even though the DVDs were already overdue) so they came out rushed and half-*ssed because of the time constraints. They later promised to fix these issues in the Blu-Ray release, but, of course, that never happened.
The f*cker couldn’t even be bothered to re-scan the footage as that would have required they redo all his bullsh*t edits from 2003, so instead they just recycled the outdated, DNR’d to sh*t DVD-era scans and threw on even more edits, “because Lucas felt like it.”
And yeah, I just wish we’d finally get an official release, especially now that Disney is finally moving into 4K territory, and the only way the Lucas Cuts can go 4K is with upscaling (the digital scans are in a 2K master format “because 2003”), unless Disney opts to re-scan the Special Edition negatives and then manually redo all of his bullsh*t edits themselves, at great (and pointless) expense……
But yeah, now that Disney bought Fox, Disney owns Fox’s last rights to Star Wars (distribution rights for Star Wars (1977), in perpetuity, and distribution rights for Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi until 2020, I think it was?) so the last “hurdle” has been overcome, assuming there’s no clause in the sales contract courtesy of George “F*ck You” Lucas that can prevent Disney from doing this.
Hear, hear.
Honestly man its like you try to post the most stupid clueless normie cringe posts ever.
You think steam is a mess but you think ms is better? DUDE SERIOUSLY? Ms was always the WORST on this, just look at windows store or windows live.
“Plus I’d love for some Xbox games to come to Steam.”
Implying there are any xbox games left.
Posting such nonsense comes so naturally to him. It’s what he does.
Because you’re mentally defunct.
The day when I have to agree with durka durka is never a good day.
In what reality do you think MS could “Clean up” the store?
Have you even seen MS store, on box or the app, or the site?
It’s worse. It’s much worse.
Microsoft buying Valve? Maybe if they manage to kill Gaben otherwise I don’t see it happening in the next 20 years.
Well maybe, but they never learn.
Thanks for the IP?
Fun fact. Gabe worked at MS before forming Valve. Also gaming journalism continues to be a running joke. Many actually lobbied for this and a 100 percent monopoly on PC Gaming. Can’t wait for the console industry and mega publishers besides Nintendo to crash and gaming journalist to be flipping burgers where they belong. They will be bad at that to.
It’s gonna be a long wait. Consoles aren’t going anywhere any time soon, bish.
Hear, hear.
Polygon is gutter trash.
steam has been going downhill for years. at this point it might be better if MS buys them. the “support person” i had attempt to help me the other day on steam was obviously a english as a 3rd language running his responses through google translate of something.
Sell it to someone, then you can get back to making games.
that would not be good
Microsoft has nothing to gain from buying Valve and a hell of a lot of misery from trying that. Right now, Valve and Microsoft are on pretty good terms and are even working together to support WMR headsets in Windows. Given that MSFT owns video game production companies and makes their own hardware – buying Valve would be a legal nightmare.
So… no. Not gonna happen.
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