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He also doesn't hold any grudges towards Sony. He just speaks his mind. You've mentioned before to being a Sony loyalist but try not to do that at the expense of embellishing the truth at the cost of undermining Microsoft because of it. Brian I swear they need more people like you around that was one of the best comments ever Im unfortunately at the point of saying crazy things because these guys on here has pushed me to the limit.

Lets get real shall we Who cares about Gabe's feelings? What about PC community's feelings? You know, the people who matter in case MS buys Valve. How would their gaming experience change? Will so much power and control in MS's hands be a good or bad thing for PC gamers?

What's your opinion on that? Brian I do agree. People here would just always make assumptions without having any facts to back up, especially regarding Nintendo and MS. What these articles keep missing or avoiding is that not only would Steam be owned by Microsoft, but it would also change to fit Microsoft's plan for complete PC domination through a closed OS like Apple's. They've been pushing their app store and UWP very hard.

How long do you think it would take for a Microsoft-owned Steam to migrate to this console-like walled garden? My guess is not very long. It wouldn't happen overnight, because it's too massive.

But I'd bet new games would be shackled inside their store right quick. Once major gaming is successfully bottled up, MS will have more leverage to do the same to the rest of Windows software. They'll eventually cut the cord on the "legacy" open functionality. Most business and productivity people don't much care about such things. They'll go along with whatever MS feeds them.

It's the fiercely independent PC gamers who lead the fight for an open Windows. The rest of the resistance are too few to matter to this huge company. I don't think he hates MS, he just doesn't like the way they operate their business and tend to put the corporate ideals ahead of treating the customer right. That'd be a huge expenditure just to take control of the competition.

MS has all it needs to compete against Valve without spending billions of dollars on an acquisition. MS just needs to build their place in the community they neglected for so long, build trust in the community they abandoned in their last attempt, and ultimately, provide a service which is equal to or better than what Steam offers, and they'll get their users.

Valve won't go down without a fight, but that's going to be a good thing for the consumers. MS doesn't need to buy Valve, or any other major publisher. The rumor, and subsequent opinion pieces on it are being way too myopic on what exactly MS is capable of. MS will not gain good will by buying a major publisher or steam. It makes little sense for MS to expend so much money on such large acquisitions, when MS as a whole seems to be taking a rather long term view on how to achieve their goals.

Spending billions to get a jump just doesn't make sense, and it'd take a really long time to make a return on their acquisition by the profits alone.

Minecraft can generate half a billion dollars in revenue a year, so paying 2 billion for it pays for itself rather quickly, and helps them achieve some other things they want.

But paying times that to acquire a big company whose profits aren't as clear means a lot more work, with only the potential to return a profit He did worked with MS for 13 years.

But he want to be himself. By creating Valve, he and his company are now profitable. He only respect his former MS employees, not the current one. The True is that Valve want to be independent. Gabe not turning down 10 billion dollars bruh no matter what you can pray all day but Microsoft is coming for ya billion probably more at its disposal.

And you assume MS just has 10 billion dollars to throw at this. Another laughable MS burns money in their cars remark. MS is incredibly profitable but they do not have cash to toss away. You also act as if Valve wants to sell - laughable - as well as acting as if this would just waltz past anti-trust reviews. And if you think Valve would sell for as little as 10 Billion This is nothing more than people with a dreaming because they support a company that abandoned gamers.

If Microsoft bought Valve there would be such a backlash from PC gamers and most would abandon Steam and demand a refund for all the games they've bought on the store. Steam is not just a game launcher. It is a store, a community and a place where AAA and indie devs can interact with their customers and sell their games.

Anyone who thinks this will happen is living in cloud cuckoo land. Valve will never sell up as they would rather dissolve Steam and the company than sell out to Microsoft or any other corporation.

It would cost Microsoft tens, maybe hundreds, of billions of dollars to buy out Valve. Most PC gamers hate Microsoft as it is so if they did try to buy Valve it would be a zombie investment in a few weeks as many gamers would abandon it for other platforms like GoG, Origin or Uplay.

Gabe seems to be more about principle than money. The man is already a billionaire, and while I'm sure he wouldn't mind having more, he always struck me as the kind of person who never felt the need to simply acquire more money.

As a private corporation, it'd be more likely that 10 years worth of profits would be the selling price of the company, and for Valve, that's estimated to be closer to around billion dollars. Although exact numbers aren't available publicly. I'm sure Gabe's been approached before to sell. But to date, he hasn't, and I can't see MS investors being willing to have MS invest so much when the gain would take too long to return.

Particularly since MS already has the infrastructure to do what Steam already does. It just doesn't have the same number of users. What MS does have though is that the Windows Store is included in every new copy of Windows, which is about all they need to eventually get new people, or people through attrition, and within PC gaming, it's not unheard of for users to use more than one service, so MS just needs to play the long game, and keep a good service running.

Eventually they'll get their users, and hopefully restore any faith they lost from the PC gamer through years of neglect and outright screwed up policies which held back PC gaming to try and sell new versions of Windows. Even assuming that MS only had to spend 10 billion for Valve, which is way too low considering the revenue the estimated revenue they buy every year, that'd be 10 high profile AAA games they could make including a nice marketing budget for each.

That would make a lot more sense than just getting a few IP's, and a storefront which they already have their own of. Probably more than that really. Those that ultimately are successful, will return their investment within a few years, as opposed to taking years to return it with a Valve purchase.

The only real benefit to buying Valve would be to absorb Steam into what they're doing, but it seems like a huge expenditure that they can do much cheaper by simply doing it on their own. EA would cost at least 20 billion to get a controlling interest, and that investment would immediately be devalued if MS didn't keep them multi-plat.

What more could they do, even assuming they kept them multi-plat, that EA isn't already doing? Leverage the games on Game Pass? Spend tons of money to promote subs which wouldn't return anywhere near what they could get by simply releasing the game through traditional channels?

This whole speculation about what MS should buy, what would be good for them, can't look at the entire picture. MS saying they wanted to acquire assets was likely more about developers than huge publishing houses, or the biggest digital distribution community on PC. How u know Microsoft can buy you and put you on that corner if they want to never say never. Hell, Microsoft could ship it as part of a Purple Box with Left 4 Dead 3 and Portal 3 , which are other series that have sat dormant as Valve rakes in the cash from its other ventures.

Microsoft needs to make a big move to try to take control of gaming, and the most powerful console in the world is just one step toward that goal. Buying Valve, for whatever the cost would be, would help the company in every possible way. Microsoft would have a lock on the PC gaming space in a way it can only dream of right now, and all it would take is this one acquisition.

Is this going to happen? And Microsoft is just the company to write a check with enough zeroes to make it happen. Cookie banner We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.

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