- jet@hackertalks.comEnglish2 years
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.socialEnglish2 years
Just like when Christopher Tolkien died. No one else was left to be passionate about his father’s vision and desires.
- Altima NEO@lemmy.zipEnglish2 years
I have to wonder if he’s even still doing anything at Valve anymore since moving to New Zealand?
- Kissaki@beehaw.orgEnglish2 years
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?
- 2 years
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.
- 2 years
No, Microsoft Probably Isn’t Going To Buy Valve
Clickbait.
- 2 years
It’s not likely anyway, given how it would almost certainly result in an antitrust lawsuit.
- 2 years
They knew they got right up to the line with the last couple, the feds were already preparing documents and they knew it.
- 2 years
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.
- 2 years
I think MS expressed interest in the idea. But I doubt even they saw it as an actual possibility.
- 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆@yiffit.netEnglish2 years
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.”
- Kissaki@beehaw.orgEnglish2 years
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)
- 2 years
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.
- 2 years
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%.
- 2 years
IIRC Valve issues shares to its employees, but the details aren’t public. There are a bunch of different corporate ownership schemes out there that it could potentially be.
2 yearsAcquisitions 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.
- 2 years
Doesn’t matter, there’s a snowballs chance in hell Valve will sell.
- 2 years
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.
- 2 years
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. ☠️
- 2 years
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.
- 2 years
Here’s why anyone who thought that was happening is a dumbass: because obviously.
- 2 years
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.
- Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish2 years
He actually lost a shit ton of weight after he moved to New Zealand
- 2 years
Been plenty of exoduses from MS lately. Oh! You mean ones led by the employees…
- 2 years
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.
- 2 years
Mass firing is not an exodus. Exodus is when people are fleeing, and generally in terms of liberation. Firing people is just firing people
- 2 years
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.
- 2 years
I’m still mad about what Microsoft did to Rare and think about what the Nintendo landscape would look like if it never happened
- Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish2 years
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.
- Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish2 years
If Valve was a publicly traded company, Steam would have turned to shit ages ago.
