Valve also has no incentive - it’s basically a free money machine.
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
on 25 May 2024 17:08
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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.
jet@hackertalks.com
on 24 May 2024 17:45
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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
on 24 May 2024 17:50
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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
on 24 May 2024 22:32
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I have to wonder if he’s even still doing anything at Valve anymore since moving to New Zealand?
Kissaki@beehaw.org
on 25 May 2024 04:53
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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?
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.
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.”
helenslunch@feddit.nl
on 25 May 2024 02:06
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It was in the big MS leak a while back
secret300@lemmy.sdf.org
on 25 May 2024 04:33
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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)
Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de
on 25 May 2024 09:05
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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%.
AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org
on 25 May 2024 17:47
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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.
AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org
on 25 May 2024 17:51
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helenslunch@feddit.nl
on 25 May 2024 11:56
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There most definitely wouldn’t be. No one cares.
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
on 25 May 2024 18:36
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Been plenty of exoduses from MS lately. Oh! You mean ones led by the employees…
helenslunch@feddit.nl
on 25 May 2024 18:39
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No exoduses that I’m aware of. Show me.
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
on 25 May 2024 18:44
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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.
madkarlsson@beehaw.org
on 13 Jun 2024 17:14
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Mass firing is not an exodus. Exodus is when people are fleeing, and generally in terms of liberation. Firing people is just firing people
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
on 13 Jun 2024 18:14
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No definition I’ve ever heard requires an exodus to be initiated by the people leaving. Also, if you read the comment that started all this, I was explicit that I didn’t mean employee-led. So thanks for stopping by weeks later to display your ignorance and/or lack of reading comprehension.
madkarlsson@beehaw.org
on 14 Jun 2024 12:16
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Someone on the internet hasn’t heard it so that must be wrong then!
Save your saltiness for 9gag, friend. I saw that you specifically wrote that but you also continued using exodus in the first sense, as the one you replied to did. But you just wanted to be snarky to that person I guess.
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
on 14 Jun 2024 18:29
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It’s okay buddy, your definition of exodus was wrong. Just let it go.
As for the rest, I made a sarcastic comment based entirely on fact, they asked for proof of my statement, I gave them everything they needed to verify it. I’m sorry if my comment was too harsh for your sensibilities, but if that’s the worst you’ve heard on Lemmy, them I’m glad for you.
guyrocket@kbin.social
on 25 May 2024 03:41
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Fuckin SHUT UP!
We don't want to give those MS assholes ANY ideas.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 25 May 2024 20:17
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Doesn’t matter, there’s a snowballs chance in hell Valve will sell.
soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de
on 25 May 2024 10:10
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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.
DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 25 May 2024 12:11
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It’s fake
AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org
on 25 May 2024 17:45
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Wonder how much money the website made for making up this rumor
Plume@beehaw.org
on 25 May 2024 14:20
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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
on 26 May 2024 07:11
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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. ☠️
JokeDeity@lemm.ee
on 25 May 2024 18:18
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Here’s why anyone who thought that was happening is a dumbass: because obviously.
fwygon@beehaw.org
on 26 May 2024 05:59
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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.
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.
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That would be an absolute nightmare for gamers, please no.
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.
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.
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.”
It was in the big MS leak a while back
guru3d.com/…/microsoft-reportedly-readies-billion…
Huh, I didn’t know that. (emphasis mine)
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%.
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.
youtu.be/uichEjBNqlg?si=EJucAkjquds16Y0s
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.
Mass firing is not an exodus. Exodus is when people are fleeing, and generally in terms of liberation. Firing people is just firing people
No definition I’ve ever heard requires an exodus to be initiated by the people leaving. Also, if you read the comment that started all this, I was explicit that I didn’t mean employee-led. So thanks for stopping by weeks later to display your ignorance and/or lack of reading comprehension.
Someone on the internet hasn’t heard it so that must be wrong then!
Save your saltiness for 9gag, friend. I saw that you specifically wrote that but you also continued using exodus in the first sense, as the one you replied to did. But you just wanted to be snarky to that person I guess.
It’s okay buddy, your definition of exodus was wrong. Just let it go.
As for the rest, I made a sarcastic comment based entirely on fact, they asked for proof of my statement, I gave them everything they needed to verify it. I’m sorry if my comment was too harsh for your sensibilities, but if that’s the worst you’ve heard on Lemmy, them I’m glad for you.
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.
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.
It’s fake
Wonder how much money the website made for making up this rumor
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.
Yarr. ☠️
Here’s why anyone who thought that was happening is a dumbass: because obviously.
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.
What do you mean?
He actually lost a shit ton of weight after he moved to New Zealand
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.