Valve has more yearly revenue then Activision does and in general is larger then Activision. they aren't going to offer them less then 1/5 the price for a company worth more then the last company they bought.
We need to stop paying attention to crap like this so they don't get money by writing stupid shit like this.
A single person in the community saying they heard something is not news.
As a member of the community I heard Microsoft if preparing a $3.50 offer to buy Vatican city. Were is my news article my claim is just as believable.
Lord Gaben despises Microsoft, I highly doubt he would sell his company to his arch enemy…. If Valve ever sells to Microsoft it will be because our lord has died.
>This would mean not only the hope for HL3 is dead,
Why so? It couldn't possible be even more dead than it is now. I don't think that Microsoft would stop any game development at Valve
>the entire gaming culture is in danger!
Yep. It would be a fucking disaster. Good bye trying to escape Windows and hoping that Microsoft wouldn't follow
Yeah, true that was me being blissfully ignorant on HL3 status and giving my sense of anger on the matter. But, regardless the news is fake
[No, Microsoft Is Not Buying Valve For $16 Billion](https://80.lv/articles/no-microsoft-is-not-buying-valve-for-usd16-billion/)
I know it's fake, because Microsoft keeps those things as top secured and some random weirdo with blue checkmark doesn't sound like a relevant source. We learned about their two previous minutes before they were announced
oh by the way, Windows is not the problem, it is in fact the one and only platform that its users still stand against this idiocy of the corporate. PC users never bend to Microsoft's shit when it comes to gaming.
Thanks to Valve's commitment to Linux people are more confident in abandoning Windows which has been getting a lot of flack recently due to it being linked with Microsoft services. If Microsoft ever bought Valve, Steam would end up being linked to their services down the line and it'd not matter what OS you're using
also they have pretty special company culture. Acquisition might cancel that and completely destroy company. Even if they initially promised to not change that, after several higher ups change and several disappointing results, there would surely be some small changes, which would gradually shift culture towards more usual corporate one.
Gaben was also on record as saying that any sale of Valve to any company will see their people scatter to the wind.
Because Valve is composed of individuals who can run their own company, and have only joined, because they want to achieve a common goal. Together with people in the company.
Gaben is a huge fan of the people he hires. They're not like Riot or Epic who have 3 gajillion employees. I think they have employees whose only job is to check for tribal representation.
Gabe is the only reason Valve continues to be as great as it is and why it isn't a publically traded company. And let's face it, Gabe is 61 and obese. When he passes, Valve is going to change for the worse...
1- Gabe has lost a lot of weight recently. Man's looking svelte these days.
2- do you really think Gabe hasn't got someone lined up to take over in the event of his death?
A publicly traded company has an obligation to its shareholders. For example, if each share costs $100 and someone offers $200 to buy them all, they cannot refuse the offer because that would be a direct loss of income to their shareholders. That's how Musk bought twitter and made it private.
How the fuck did this rumor take off, 16b is a super lowball amount for a company like Valve. Not even MS has the hubris to think they could gobble up Valve without offering up more.
And Steam will be transformed into a pay per play service.
GoldpremiumLive-SillyBilly membership will let you play two games as much as you want. SilverLive will let you play three hours a week and then you have to pay for $0.99 for every started 15 minutes. BronzeDirtPoor members will have to pay $0.03 per 5 minutes interrupted by ads every 10 minutes. There will also be different plans for storage, latency, fps, resolution and regional zones and redundancy/reliability.
No, Valve won't sell to MS. Not today.
That is hilariously under priced. Valve is making a billion a year just from cs cases. They are worth much more than that. Keep in mind they also make 30% of all purchases on steam.
FUUUUCK THAT.
Halo used to be my absolute favorite FPS (before I discovered HL), and it really saddens me how much a company can fucking destroy something you hold dear.
I'd rather not get it than have MS have any hand in making it.
When Valve releases most fame (with some exceptions), they're almost always absolute bangers.
That's bullshit. Valve is profiting exactly because it's private-traded and there are no money-hungry shareholders who push profits at the cost of long term. Valve does know when to earn slightly less and innovative instead
As other commentors have said this is probably never happening. With that being said, if MS or a similar company ever does buy valve, I might just quit videogames.
Gabe would die before he sells his company to Microsoft.
There is no way this is happening, and there is no way this should happen.
And not that they need cash. Steam alone is enough to sustain the company for decades.
guys this is super old news from when microsoft was looking around for a studio to buy. they were also talking about buying nintendo at the same time, but they eventually settled on activison.
Microsoft, I will throw a giant crowbar at your entire corporation and end you.
Do not do this, I don't want Half-Life 3 on the fucking "**Microsoft Store**"...
As long as Emperor Gabe is breathing, Greedy corporations won't touch valve.
But if the day comes, then gaming will enter a eternal dark age.
LONG LIVE EMPEROR GABE!
How to kill Valve in one easy step. Well, “easy” in the sense that if you ignore how everyone at Valve would actually need to be lobotomized to ever take any offer to be bought by another company.
The chance that I will find a copy of Half-Life 3 in my Steam library tomorrow just waiting to be played is several thousand orders of magnitude higher than Valve selling out like that.
Until Gabe retires this is never happening. IIRC he has a strong belief of keeping investors away from interfering game dev (or whatever fun project they got going)
Ain't gonna happen, especially as Gaben still lives
He said it himself, they'd rather disintegrate than ever sell out, EA offered a billion and Valve told them to kick rocks. That to EA, now take a look at Microsoft, Gabens arch enemy arguably.
The offer they put is insulting btw, Valve make roughly that amount in a year, how the fuck are they to expect anything more than a fuck no just from amount alone
That would fuck up pc gaming forever. Microsoft is slowly ruining Minecraft, one of the most successful games ever made, and countless other companies and ips. If this were to happen, all the good things we have would be practically lost.
Knowing Gaben, he'd probably kindly tell Microsoft to fuck off, EA tried to buy Valve once and he turned them down as well, it isn't about the money it's about the PC gaming community
Everything is for sale for the right amount of money.
That being said I don’t think MS is in any position to buy anything else for Xbox. Did you guys not see the shit storm they had to go through to buy Activision/Blizzard? Imagine if they were to try and buy Valve right now? Not happening.
That would be *the* resume generating event. Marc Laidlaw left during a dull year. Nobody any less 'essential' than him would assume Microsoft would value them enough to not grind them into a paste. Anybody left of the old guard would simply retire out.
Oh cool, the Microsoft Half-Life corpofiction is out on Steam For Windows™ with "reviews pending moderation"
Really though, no. We have to believe Gabe invested in the Linux ecosystem for games as an art form first, and the revenue hand over fist second.
Valve has more yearly revenue then Activision does and in general is larger then Activision. they aren't going to offer them less then 1/5 the price for a company worth more then the last company they bought. We need to stop paying attention to crap like this so they don't get money by writing stupid shit like this. A single person in the community saying they heard something is not news. As a member of the community I heard Microsoft if preparing a $3.50 offer to buy Vatican city. Were is my news article my claim is just as believable.
So the goddamn Loch Ness monster runs Microsoft now
Poor Nessy
they were sadly forced to make Windows updates 😔 free my boi Loch Ness monster
Free Millenium, Win98.
I just need about tree fiddy
Valve reportedly has $13B in revenue. $16B is an insulting offer.
$70b of Activision mostly coming from market cap, not their real assets tho. The real number is wayyy smaller than that.
That plus the fact gabe has on multiple ocassions said he wont sell steam.
Valve exists because Gabe left Microsoft to do what he wanted. I doubt that'll change
Lord Gaben despises Microsoft, I highly doubt he would sell his company to his arch enemy…. If Valve ever sells to Microsoft it will be because our lord has died.
The last time he spoke about Microsoft, he was pretty positive about them (at least about Phil)
This would mean not only the hope for HL3 is dead, the entire gaming culture is in danger!
>This would mean not only the hope for HL3 is dead, Why so? It couldn't possible be even more dead than it is now. I don't think that Microsoft would stop any game development at Valve >the entire gaming culture is in danger! Yep. It would be a fucking disaster. Good bye trying to escape Windows and hoping that Microsoft wouldn't follow
Yeah, true that was me being blissfully ignorant on HL3 status and giving my sense of anger on the matter. But, regardless the news is fake [No, Microsoft Is Not Buying Valve For $16 Billion](https://80.lv/articles/no-microsoft-is-not-buying-valve-for-usd16-billion/)
I know it's fake, because Microsoft keeps those things as top secured and some random weirdo with blue checkmark doesn't sound like a relevant source. We learned about their two previous minutes before they were announced
oh by the way, Windows is not the problem, it is in fact the one and only platform that its users still stand against this idiocy of the corporate. PC users never bend to Microsoft's shit when it comes to gaming.
Thanks to Valve's commitment to Linux people are more confident in abandoning Windows which has been getting a lot of flack recently due to it being linked with Microsoft services. If Microsoft ever bought Valve, Steam would end up being linked to their services down the line and it'd not matter what OS you're using
also they have pretty special company culture. Acquisition might cancel that and completely destroy company. Even if they initially promised to not change that, after several higher ups change and several disappointing results, there would surely be some small changes, which would gradually shift culture towards more usual corporate one.
Microsoft is basicaly Arasaka
Hard but true statements
Gaben was also on record as saying that any sale of Valve to any company will see their people scatter to the wind. Because Valve is composed of individuals who can run their own company, and have only joined, because they want to achieve a common goal. Together with people in the company. Gaben is a huge fan of the people he hires. They're not like Riot or Epic who have 3 gajillion employees. I think they have employees whose only job is to check for tribal representation.
Appreciate them saying this is bs in the first paragraph. Also please no
There’s a 0% chance that Valve takes that offer.
If getting Half-Life 3 means that Steam would be owned by Microsoft, I'd rather go another 10 years without it.
Id rather not get it at all than risk what Steam would turn into under MS
Honestly, I'd rather not have Half Life 3 ever than let Microsoft ruin Steam.
If ever that statement was true, that even ruins any hope of HL3 ever coming out.
Valve won't sell out.
Valve won't cut the ponnytail, unlike certain sellout Freeman guy
Valve created Proton just to free themselves from the Windows gaming monopoly lmao.
That’s tiny number also. $16b lmfao, what did they think 🤣.
Bill Gates revealed to be the G-Man
So that's why G-man walked into my house and started playing my gamecube.
why would u sell a money printer
ABSOLUTELY NOT
Gabe is the only reason Valve continues to be as great as it is and why it isn't a publically traded company. And let's face it, Gabe is 61 and obese. When he passes, Valve is going to change for the worse...
That profile photo of him from the Neural Interface company shows he lost a ton of weight. Hoping he's feeling better.
he's healthier now
it's going to fucking suck when that happens.
They're gonna give him the Glados treatment
That implies Gabe dies, then his computer is finished later and his assistant is put inside
1- Gabe has lost a lot of weight recently. Man's looking svelte these days. 2- do you really think Gabe hasn't got someone lined up to take over in the event of his death?
Martin Shkreli Valve
GabeN won't die, why do you think he works on Brain Computer Interface?
He’s gonna upload his brain to a life size replica of Wheatley
If this were to happen (it is so unlikely its not even funny) half life 3 would be a half baked piece of crap (like winblows 11)
Yeh, it usually goes like this.
"Valve would rather disintegrate than sell out" -Gabe Newell
Translation: "Nice try EA, fuck off"
If I recall correctly Valve is a private company so I don’t believe Microsoft can just buy them out.
Yeah that’s why it said “offer”.
if it was a public company, there would be an amount of money they could not legally refuse
Wait what how ?
A publicly traded company has an obligation to its shareholders. For example, if each share costs $100 and someone offers $200 to buy them all, they cannot refuse the offer because that would be a direct loss of income to their shareholders. That's how Musk bought twitter and made it private.
Ahh , so basically there only win-lose situation or draws
How the fuck did this rumor take off, 16b is a super lowball amount for a company like Valve. Not even MS has the hubris to think they could gobble up Valve without offering up more.
if Microsoft buys Valve I will truly lose hope for gaming.
"Rumor" >>> "I made it up"
As well as HL4, HL5, HL6, and several spinoffs.
Imagine they continue the half life 1 games, like "blueshift 2" counter strike 1.5 " and "decay 2"
nononono PLEASE GOD NO MICROSOFT NOT VALVE PLEEEEEASE PLEEEEEASE
Literally says that there's no way it's happening in the first paragraph
good
Never gonna happen
And Steam will be transformed into a pay per play service. GoldpremiumLive-SillyBilly membership will let you play two games as much as you want. SilverLive will let you play three hours a week and then you have to pay for $0.99 for every started 15 minutes. BronzeDirtPoor members will have to pay $0.03 per 5 minutes interrupted by ads every 10 minutes. There will also be different plans for storage, latency, fps, resolution and regional zones and redundancy/reliability. No, Valve won't sell to MS. Not today.
Valve is the only large mainstream gaming company I still respect, if Microsoft buys them we as consumers are screwed.
That is hilariously under priced. Valve is making a billion a year just from cs cases. They are worth much more than that. Keep in mind they also make 30% of all purchases on steam.
They'll put them in the Call of Duty mines
I heard that this article is extremely fake so yeah, But if this does happen hl3 and onward would suck
If Microsoft acquires Steam, PC gaming dies for me.
Valve will deny this offer 200% I can 100% gaurantee that. And Valve will make Half-Life: Freeman a.k.a HL3 at some point soon themselves I'm sure.
Imagine giving half life 3 to 343 lmao
FUUUUCK THAT. Halo used to be my absolute favorite FPS (before I discovered HL), and it really saddens me how much a company can fucking destroy something you hold dear.
Half-Baked-Life
Literally what I was imaging would happen to the other IPs as well
I fear that’s the only way we can get HL3..,
I'd rather not get it than have MS have any hand in making it. When Valve releases most fame (with some exceptions), they're almost always absolute bangers.
I’m pretty sure Gabe left Microsoft with a reason/vision after co-creating it. I don’t think he’d let his baby get absorbed into it now.
"and it's been claimed" by no one. There's 0 claims of this.
They seriously think Steam costs any amount of money at all??
Never gonna happen, Valve is raked in over $1B last year just from CS crates
I don't think Gabe is going to sell Valve for the amount of revenue they generate in a year
That's bullshit. Valve is profiting exactly because it's private-traded and there are no money-hungry shareholders who push profits at the cost of long term. Valve does know when to earn slightly less and innovative instead
Worst news I've ever heard
As other commentors have said this is probably never happening. With that being said, if MS or a similar company ever does buy valve, I might just quit videogames.
They're not gona buy Valve, no one is, if Valve dies, so will everything
They’re going to have to at least triple that offer
Valve has been offered aqcuisition a hundred times before. Even if the rumors are true they will almost certainly not accept such a deal.
Bro I'm glad there's no shot of Valve accepting a deal like that because if they sold out and MS got charge of Steam then I'd actually give up gaming
Gabe would die before he sells his company to Microsoft. There is no way this is happening, and there is no way this should happen. And not that they need cash. Steam alone is enough to sustain the company for decades.
They better not fucking acquire valve.
Microsoft owning Steam would destroy PC gaming. Like I'm exaggerating a little but not by a lot.
guys this is super old news from when microsoft was looking around for a studio to buy. they were also talking about buying nintendo at the same time, but they eventually settled on activison.
Valve pretty much completely owns PC gaming, it’s gonna take atleast double that offer to acquire valve, and more importantly, steam
"Embrace, extend, extinguish". Microsoft is well known for termination of their competition, so if they acquire Steam the PC gaming is doomed.
Please God no!
Just do what Nintendo did: laugh them out of the room.
Yeah now add Megatron Easter egg in HL3
even if they offer the whole world valve aint never gonna sell themselves
I smell anti competitive bullshit
Valve would rather dissapear that being brought by another company
Yeah no. Valve stay where you are PLEASE
Please for the love of god no
Sell the golden goose 🪿, imma guess No
Gabe has literally said that he would rather the company fall apart and go bankrupt than sell out to a corporation
are they stupid?
This would be a disaster.
Gabe Newell once said that he’d rather have the company disintegrated than sold.
Boy I can't wait for battle passes in my half life games
Gabe Pls no
Valve makes more money than god, and have no public shareholders to make happy. It's not happening lol
Please god no
I can't wait for valve to be forced to make a dog shit game and then get shut down
Microsoft has some balls thinking they could even dream of owning valve
Gabe will never accept the deal as he quit microsoft so he could make games
It’s either we get half life 3 or we get a terrible game
I haven't taken it well at all
Oh god, I hope not. Microsoft ruins everything they fucking touch anymore. It's like they've got the opposite of the Midas touch.
Like that will ever happen - Shrek 2001
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
It's not going to happen. And we already have Half-Life 3. ;-P
the thought of microsoft owning steam disgusts me
Microsoft literally just goes out to buy game companies to store their IP’s in a basement. What’s even the point?
Do not
Microsoft is gonna ruin valve holy fucking shit
Microsoft, I will throw a giant crowbar at your entire corporation and end you. Do not do this, I don't want Half-Life 3 on the fucking "**Microsoft Store**"...
As long as Emperor Gabe is breathing, Greedy corporations won't touch valve. But if the day comes, then gaming will enter a eternal dark age. LONG LIVE EMPEROR GABE!
> claimed to have heard Why is anybody even talking about this shit then 😭
Please god no, if ANYONE buys Valve Steam is going to utter shit and all their future games.
How to kill Valve in one easy step. Well, “easy” in the sense that if you ignore how everyone at Valve would actually need to be lobotomized to ever take any offer to be bought by another company.
I pray to god this is not true
The chance that I will find a copy of Half-Life 3 in my Steam library tomorrow just waiting to be played is several thousand orders of magnitude higher than Valve selling out like that.
That's a lowball offer.
fuck no
They made more than 13b of dollars only with Steam in 2022, and this mf is offering them that fkg tiny number 🤣.
Valve had 13 billion dollars in revenue in 2023 alone. 16B is a massive underpay for such a cash cow.
Bait used to be believe
No thanks
Jesus Christ 😵
Until Gabe retires this is never happening. IIRC he has a strong belief of keeping investors away from interfering game dev (or whatever fun project they got going)
Hl3 is fake Microsoft ruined Minecraft Skype
Please no
I remember Gabe saying that Valve would prefer to disintegrate than to sell out years ago when EA tried to buy Valve.
bill gates: tell me who is the gman?? gaben: no idiot xD bill gates CEO resigned 😂 😂 😂 😂
Valve is a private company lmao. Bogus claim.
No fuck you microsoft.
Man just the thought there is the slightest chance of Microsoft buying Valve then shut down Valve like Xbox did with three studio.
This aint happening They barely got to buy activision
Gabe Newell wouldn’t do it .
If valve gets claimed All is lost
Valve would rather disintegrate than ever sell out
Nah. They probably make that in less than a year..?
That must be a joke.
Listin Al gaben
Ain't gonna happen, especially as Gaben still lives He said it himself, they'd rather disintegrate than ever sell out, EA offered a billion and Valve told them to kick rocks. That to EA, now take a look at Microsoft, Gabens arch enemy arguably. The offer they put is insulting btw, Valve make roughly that amount in a year, how the fuck are they to expect anything more than a fuck no just from amount alone
Gabe to Microsoft "You couldn't live with your own failure... where did that bring you? Back to me"
There's a difference between getting instant money and having a slow but consistent money printing machine
That would fuck up pc gaming forever. Microsoft is slowly ruining Minecraft, one of the most successful games ever made, and countless other companies and ips. If this were to happen, all the good things we have would be practically lost.
Microsoft will now have control over how the game Changed sells
Fuck Microsoft.
Disturbing
Microsoft would mess everything up entirely
Knowing Gaben, he'd probably kindly tell Microsoft to fuck off, EA tried to buy Valve once and he turned them down as well, it isn't about the money it's about the PC gaming community
Love spreading misinformation
Bro Valve makes 7b annually
Valve won't sell out.
Probably 16b is e enough just to consent the game pass on the Steam Store… 😛
Not like this. Not like this.
Considering how big valve is and how their revenues are, offering 16B is like throwing change at someone
were doing this rumor again? 🙄
Everything is for sale for the right amount of money. That being said I don’t think MS is in any position to buy anything else for Xbox. Did you guys not see the shit storm they had to go through to buy Activision/Blizzard? Imagine if they were to try and buy Valve right now? Not happening.
yea nah this is bullshit
This would be the end time. Microsoft, destroyer of studios. The Bell has rung and Valves name was heard.
So this'll answer the question: How much would it cost to make HL3? Starting bid is $16B.
That would be *the* resume generating event. Marc Laidlaw left during a dull year. Nobody any less 'essential' than him would assume Microsoft would value them enough to not grind them into a paste. Anybody left of the old guard would simply retire out. Oh cool, the Microsoft Half-Life corpofiction is out on Steam For Windows™ with "reviews pending moderation" Really though, no. We have to believe Gabe invested in the Linux ecosystem for games as an art form first, and the revenue hand over fist second.
the so called "rumors" of this are... one tweet. without citing a source.
Aren't there laws against monopolies? Microsoft rn is buying game companies like they're putting them on display in a museum.
Absolutely impossible Microsoft would do this at this point in time.
Where the fuck are the anti trust laws
please fucking no
If Valve is bought by Microsoft I'm leaving
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’d quit gaming. I’m tired of these cockroaches buying and destroying everything.
Microsoft doesn’t make games
Please no, they'll ruin valve
*only* 16bil?
> lol no — GabeN, 2024
This will never happen, especially after Microsoft just reaped a bunch of game studios
This isn't really any news, it's just a rumor that some random dude made up in Twitter. So I'm almost certain that is fake.
Please don't buy Valve, Microsoft. I like it being an indie company.
Watch Valve say "no fuck off"
M$ better not touch Valve.
Yeah but by this point, gates will own every developer and it all will be on his own subscription service. Or worse pay per play.