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[-] jet@hackertalks.com 107 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Banzai51@midwest.social 55 points 1 year ago

Just like when Christopher Tolkien died. No one else was left to be passionate about his father's vision and desires.

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 year ago

I have to wonder if he's even still doing anything at Valve anymore since moving to New Zealand?

[-] anton2492@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 year ago
[-] Kissaki@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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?

[-] salta@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 60 points 1 year ago

No, Microsoft Probably Isn’t Going To Buy Valve

Clickbait.

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 9 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Midnitte@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Valve also has no incentive - it's basically a free money machine.

[-] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 45 points 1 year ago

Who was even suggesting that this was a thing that might ever happen?

[-] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

I think MS expressed interest in the idea. But I doubt even they saw it as an actual possibility.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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."

[-] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago
[-] Kissaki@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

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)

[-] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

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%.

[-] soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 24 points 1 year ago

That would be an absolute nightmare for gamers, please no.

[-] guyrocket@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago

Fuckin SHUT UP!

We don't want to give those MS assholes ANY ideas.

[-] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Doesn’t matter, there’s a snowballs chance in hell Valve will sell.

[-] Plume@beehaw.org 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

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.

Yarr. ☠️

[-] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 year ago
[-] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Wonder how much money the website made for making up this rumor

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

Here's why anyone who thought that was happening is a dumbass: because obviously.

[-] fwygon@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Sina@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I just wish he lived a healthier life.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

He actually lost a shit ton of weight after he moved to New Zealand

[-] Vodulas@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

What do you mean?

[-] tombruzzo@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I'm still mad about what Microsoft did to Rare and think about what the Nintendo landscape would look like if it never happened

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

If Valve was a publicly traded company, Steam would have turned to shit ages ago.

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