I'm a PC gamer and have been since I was a kid. It's literally my number one thing I do when I have free time is get on some games and hang with the boys. It's a big part of my life.

As game companies go, I don't trust Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, Blizzard, Bethesda, Sony, Epic Games... It's a long list. Valve is the only company I even kinda trust (Which isn't even that much these days). If Microsoft bought Valve I'd probably never buy a PC game again. Because all the companies selling them would be companies I don't wanna give money.

But it's not true that they were buying it so it's a moot point. Just wanted to rant. :)

I'm sorry...ppl thought this was real? They paid like 60 something billion for blizz. VALVE is EASILY worth that, if not double.

Steam has to be worth a lot more than 12 billion.

Jesus christ what a nightmare suggestion. That would be the death of the last good site on the internet. The enshittification they would inflict upon us as they fire all the senior staff, "legally" and onesidedly change all the contracts you've signed without your consultation, prune content, discontinue support for features and gear (byebye linux users), and increase their cut of dev's pie - it'd be truly legendary. Legenshitty, that's how bad it would be.

“Valve would rather disintegrate than sell out” I think that was their answer to rumours of an EA acquisition of Valve, and it seems to stay true to this day

The rag called metro making news from random stuff again, I see. This is not even news. It's literally "reporting" that something is not happening.

Like this: "Intel not buying AMD for 6B$" Industry insiders report that Intel has decided not to buy their rivals for 6B$. The CEO of AMD has reportedly stated having no interest in selling to Intel. Their spokesperson, when confronted with this breaking news, replied "WTF have you been smoking, Pringles?" We will continue to report on this story as it continues to develop.

Kellogg's Cereal is not buying Raytheon Aerospace.

-equivalent headline

I hearby announce that I am also not buying Valve & Counter-Strike for £12 billion. You heard it here first!

valve is a fucking money printer

honestly would be funny if valve bought microsoft instead

(edit: typo and clarification)

As lucrative as Valve and Steam may seem to buy, even for 10x that amount, any analyst who is realistic about suggesting the purchase to another company would know that it isn't worth it. Not that it's a bad buy, but whoever can afford to buy it likely could not help themselves but fuck it up and run the whole operation to the ground.

Next in the news "water is wet".

I feel like Steam would make more than 12 billion pounds in the time it would take for a take over to finalize

So no Win11-only compatibility and copilot bloatware in Steam? What a sad day 🙁

12bil for steam? Nah man, its probably triple than that.

I really hope the FTC would block that (if it were to actually happen)...

Never thought they were.