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Microsoft - keep your filthy hands off Valve, leak shows MSFT would buy Valve
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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.
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All of which reeks of an oligigopoly and reminds me of even worse companies like Oracle and AT&TThe funny thing about selling valve, what would it even give for Gabe? He's already filthy rich. What more could one want with more money?
Saying no to selling only makes sense in his position, in my opinion. At least I personally would think so. Because then you still keep what is effectively your creation, and can use it to shape the world.
At some point you really do just have enough money.
Well there is people to whom no amount of money is enough money. Not that it is at that point about, what you can do with that money. Rather by then the amount of money is a leader board and score board all to it's own. The desire to be Forbes number 1 and then to be forbes number 1 with ever increasing lead to the number 2.
However all indications are, Gabe Newell isn't one of those people. He would have had plenty of opportunities to cash out and then do some other business dealings to get ever bigger score card number. Don't really know exactly what else it would tell of him or his character, but the one thing we can pretty confidently tell is "it seems he isn't about just singularly amassing ever growing pile of wealth as large as possible". He would have had plenty opportunity to enrich himself way more aggressively and he didn't.