This article is pure clickbait. But eventually Gabe is going to die. And when that day happens we are going to see Valve either transform into a foundation, or become everything that it had resisted through its entire life. Gabe is a stand-up guy. No question.
His successors, are not going to be Gabe. They’re going to chipaway at his philosophy. It’s only a matter of time
Just like when Christopher Tolkien died. No one else was left to be passionate about his father’s vision and desires.
I have to wonder if he’s even still doing anything at Valve anymore since moving to New Zealand?
A CEO that does not do anything provides stability to the company. (/s)
When management manages (making changes) you can often wonder: Wouldn’t it be better if they did nothing instead?
Wiki says he moved from NZ back to Seattle in 2021, did that change?
This is my real fear as well. I love Gabe but what happens afterwards… I would work for him in a second and I’m just hoping he finds enough people who have the same philosophy to continue his work.
No, Microsoft Probably Isn’t Going To Buy Valve
Clickbait.
It’s not likely anyway, given how it would almost certainly result in an antitrust lawsuit.
They knew they got right up to the line with the last couple, the feds were already preparing documents and they knew it.
And yet the mergers still went through
Valve also has no incentive - it’s basically a free money machine.
It also acts like $16 billion is both not enough, and a cartoonishly large amount. Meanwhile, Activision blizzard was just purchased by msft for $69 billion.
Who was even suggesting that this was a thing that might ever happen?
I think MS expressed interest in the idea. But I doubt even they saw it as an actual possibility.
Thats exactly it. I think it was Phil Spencer who said he’d want Microsoft to buy Valve if the chance came up. In the same sentence he said he would buy Nintendo, too. In the same way a Gen Z’er might say “I’d like to buy a house someday.”
Insights from Dior, a prominent figure in the Counter-Strike community, reveal that Gabe Newell owns less than 25% of Valve.
Huh, I didn’t know that. (emphasis mine)
I still don’t know it. I don’t have a huge amount of confidence in “a prominent figure in the Counter-Strike community” as a source for Valve’s internal finances.
Shares aren’t necessarily voting shares, but I don’t know how that works and if it’s even relevant for the private Valve corporation.
So maybe Gabe Newell does have full control over Valve, or he might not.
It’s definitely interesting that it’s only 25%.
IIRC Valve issues shares to its employees, but the details aren’t public. There are a bunch of different corporate ownership schemes out there that it could potentially be.
It was in the big MS leak a while back
Acquisitions felt kinda cool when Microsoft was dishing them out like nobody’s business prior to the pandemic.
No, it did not. Consolidation usually is bad for employees and customers, and anyone who hasn’t been living under a rock for the last 150 years has had plenty of opportunities to observe this.
That would be an absolute nightmare for gamers, please no.
Fuckin SHUT UP!
We don’t want to give those MS assholes ANY ideas.
Doesn’t matter, there’s a snowballs chance in hell Valve will sell.
I could come up with a thousand reasons as to why this would never happen. Hell, I could even argue that the whole Steam Deck’s existence comes from a series of decisions that Valve made out of hatred for Microsoft. So, yeah, it’s not happening.
Still though, as a thought experiment, imagining a world where tomorrow, Steam is owned by Microsoft, it’s… interesting, to say the least. In the most horrifying way possible, but interesting nonetheless. Quite frankly, I can’t imagine anything worse happening for video games. Like to me, this is what a video game apocalypse sounds like.
It’s fake
Wonder how much money the website made for making up this rumor
I doubt they were able to pull off starting the rumor, more likely it started on its own and they picked it up to drive clicks.
Here’s why anyone who thought that was happening is a dumbass: because obviously.
A terrible idea for whom? Microsoft? I think not.
I would. There’d hopefully be an exodus.
There most definitely wouldn’t be. No one cares.
Been plenty of exoduses from MS lately. Oh! You mean ones led by the employees…
No exoduses that I’m aware of. Show me.
Lmao they laid off 1900 from Activision Blizzard last year and shuttered multiple XBox game studios this month! Sure, I suppose they could all just hang around and work as volunteers, but I suspect they’ll be doing that exodus thing.
Gabe Newell knows that any potential buyer will run Valve into the ground. Thus he already promised too long ago that he would never sell or let Valve go public.
Considering how many game studios that Microsoft just killed off in the last 3 years alone; they’re never going to be worthy of buying Valve.
I just wish he lived a healthier life.
He actually lost a shit ton of weight after he moved to New Zealand
What do you mean?
I’m still mad about what Microsoft did to Rare and think about what the Nintendo landscape would look like if it never happened
The story I heard was they bought Rare thinking this would give the rights to Donkey Kong, and when they realized this wasn’t the case after the fact, they basically threw them into the Kinect mine, which later became the Sea of Thieves mine.
If Valve was a publicly traded company, Steam would have turned to shit ages ago.
