That leaked email conveniently assumes the owner of Valve would sell it. I can't think of a reason for Gabe to do that.

Gaben already refused to sell to EA and made it abundantly clear that we would rather let valve die than go public.

Microsoft also just recently said they'd buy Nintendo if they could.

All this means is that Microsoft is filthy rich and still doesn't know how to make an original quality game studio. They seem to overly rely on buying out studios and IPs that are successful to rake in more money.

The thought of another company buying Valve, especially one like Microsoft, makes me actually sick. I have spent so much fucking money on my Steam library at this point. If my Steam library gets jacked by some billionaire dickheads it's all over, I'm never paying for anything again.

This is so stupid. Of course they would buy it. Valve won't sell, but let's do the click baits!

Gaben is one of the few people in tech I trust to resist the money MSFT would be willing to throw at something as successful as valve. I mean - they’re the closest thing to a trustworthy company as you can find these days.

I like to think Gabe knows all too well the importance of remaining a private business. Publicly traded businesses are the root cause of a lot of problems in the world.

Gaben used to work at Microsoft and left because he hated it.

Gabe has been a large proponent of avoiding the kind of consolidation that Microsoft is doing. He saw the writing on the way years ago when Valve released the Steam consoles. I don't think (and certainly hope) that he wouldn't sell.

I am ruined if this happens. MS would discontinue Proton / Linux and Mac support.

Day 1 of suddenly having the urge to keep an offline and DRM free copy of all my steam games.

I love Steam (have 2000 or so games on it) but I realize it is only a matter of time before it gets enshittified.

I imagine they would immediately drop proton and move the steam deck too some windows bs

It's impossible for me to understand not having enough. M$ is like some megacorp villain that wants to swallow everything

When one company in an industry has nearly endless cash, as Microsoft and Apple do, it is natural that everyone else would be seen as acquisition targets

People would riot. GOG would have a massive influx of traffic.

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish moment

This would be a nightmare

It's a private company that isn't for sale. There was another leak a week ago where they were trying to acquire Nintendo which IS publicly traded, but I think the private shares still control 51%, but that's old info.

Hopefully Gabe doesn't allow that to ever happen

I've tried switching to Linux and didn't succeed. Nevertheless i wouldn't wanna see a Microsoft Deck with Windows 11.