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Katana314 ,

I’m a little surprised it’s that low. I mean, considering their cloud and hardware divisions they’d be getting, shouldn’t Valve pay a bit more than $16m to buy Microsoft?

BuboScandiacus ,
@BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz avatar

$16B for Valve ? Clown offer 🤡

xilophor ,
@xilophor@lemmy.world avatar

In 2022, Blizzard was valued at $60B and had a gross profit of $5.4B. Valve almost certainly had a gross profit more than that (Microsoft estimated $6.5B in 2021). $16B would be such a laughably low figure for the company, especially since Microsoft bought Blizzard at $70B (market cap of $74B around the same time). Not to mention how low-risk Valve’s profit is.

KISSmyOSFeddit ,

The “source” otherwise does nothing but give away cosmetic in-game items if you subscribe and tag a friend on X.

AgentGrimstone ,

So they can burn it to the ground?

luciferofastora ,

Tinfoil Hat Time:

Linux Gaming, while increasingly viable, isn’t currently a threat to MS. There are enough reasons people will stick with Windows. But Valve are doing a good job of showing that it’s possible, that Microsoft’s hold on PC gaming isn’t absolute and that an increasing number of games are playable on Linux too (with the right tools). Wine and co. have been around for a while, but they never enjoyed the spotlight of a major videogame platform investing time and manpower into developing a dedicated gaming compatibility engine.

I don’t think MS would intentionally run it into the ground. They’d probably try to squeeze it for money, which might end up doing so anyway.

I also don’t think they’re really worried about Linux gaming. But I also doubt they’d leave Proton untouched entirely. Whether they’d kneecap it, whether they’d enshittify it, whether they’d work on interfacing it with their proprietary stuff in an attempt to put it ahead of any competition and tip potential Linux Gaming developments in favour of using their engine to more easily target both platforms at once, I doubt they could resist doing something to squeeze money from it.

Maybe the very idea that they’re challenging Microsoft’s supremacy is unpleasant to them. Maybe their analytics show enough of a trend to concern them. Maybe they just want to make sure they have a piece of the pie if it ever becomes worth something.

Or maybe the whole thing is baseless bullshit made up for attention and site traffic.

p5yk0t1km1r4ge ,
@p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world avatar

…they can’t even handle everything with Activision Blizzard. Jesus christ.

Gnugit ,

If this happens I’m inciting riots.

Death_Equity ,

On the plus side is HL3 will be released.

On the negative side is everything else about that situation and HL3 will be a rushed shit-show of a cash grab.

ulkesh ,
@ulkesh@beehaw.org avatar

I was okay with them getting Blizzard because, well, how much worse could Blizzard actually get with the merger?

But this? I sincerely hope this never happens. Valve isn’t the complete shit-show that Blizzard has been. Valve actually understands its customers and seemingly, mostly, respects them. Please for all things good in this universe, keep it that way.

Icalasari ,

As long as Gaben runs Valve, I can see him just laughing and saying no to whatever offer Microsoft gives

randon31415 ,

They will buy it, then shut it down. Then people will finally buy games at the … window games store?

kittenzrulz123 ,

Considering Valve is one of the biggest backers of Linux that would be horrible (ofc it’s ai generated nonsense).

plinky ,
@plinky@hexbear.net avatar

that seems wildly cheap lol, to kill linux gaming alone is probably worth them 50 billion or more, ignoring money printing from steam store itself

Saff ,

As long as valve say no then they can offer all they like. That is the advantage of not being a publicly traded company!

not_that_guy05 ,

Please don’t

thingsiplay ,

according to unverifiable rumours. … The leak comes from an unknown and unreliable source in the gaming industry.

But continues to write an entire article about it. I wouldn’t be shocked if the rumor was set by the person who writes the article itself. Edit: Which itself is only a few paragraphs, but filled with ads, links and images on the entire page.

Exec ,
@Exec@pawb.social avatar

Also wouldn’t that pull in major antitrust violation cases especially in the EU?

Reawake9179 ,

I don’t wanna jinx it, but there is no way that this deal would go through

HawlSera ,

I’ts not about integrity, it’s about clicks. It doesn’t matter if you read the headline, only if you clicked.

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