- jet ( @jet@hackertalks.com ) English107•1 month 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 ( @Banzai51@midwest.social ) English55•1 month ago
Just like when Christopher Tolkien died. No one else was left to be passionate about his father’s vision and desires.
- Altima NEO ( @altima_neo@lemmy.zip ) English11•1 month ago
I have to wonder if he’s even still doing anything at Valve anymore since moving to New Zealand?
- anton2492 ( @anton2492@lemmy.nz ) 4•1 month ago
Wiki says he moved from NZ back to Seattle in 2021, did that change?
- Kissaki ( @Kissaki@beehaw.org ) English3•1 month 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 ( @salta@lemm.ee ) 6•1 month 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 ( @scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ) English60•1 month ago
No, Microsoft Probably Isn’t Going To Buy Valve
Clickbait.
- Telorand ( @Telorand@reddthat.com ) 9•1 month ago
It’s not likely anyway, given how it would almost certainly result in an antitrust lawsuit.
- Scrubbles ( @scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ) English9•1 month ago
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 ( @Midnitte@beehaw.org ) English6•1 month ago
Valve also has no incentive - it’s basically a free money machine.
- teawrecks ( @teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ) 4•1 month 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 ( @smeg@feddit.uk ) English45•1 month ago
Who was even suggesting that this was a thing that might ever happen?
- Feydaikin ( @Faydaikin@beehaw.org ) 16•1 month ago
I think MS expressed interest in the idea. But I doubt even they saw it as an actual possibility.
- 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) English38•1 month 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.”
- Kissaki ( @Kissaki@beehaw.org ) English10•1 month 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 ( @AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org ) 9•1 month 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.
- Chewy ( @Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de ) 6•1 month 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%.
- ssj2marx ( @ssj2marx@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 month ago
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.
- helenslunch ( @helenslunch@feddit.nl ) 3•1 month ago
It was in the big MS leak a while back
- soulsource ( @soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de ) English31•1 month 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.
That would be an absolute nightmare for gamers, please no.
- guyrocket ( @guyrocket@kbin.social ) 23•1 month ago
Fuckin SHUT UP!
We don’t want to give those MS assholes ANY ideas.
- KairuByte ( @KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 2•1 month ago
Doesn’t matter, there’s a snowballs chance in hell Valve will sell.
- Plume (She/Her) ( @Plume@beehaw.org ) 22•1 month 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 ( @CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ) 4•1 month 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 ( @DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 15•1 month ago
It’s fake
- AndrasKrigare ( @AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org ) 5•1 month ago
Wonder how much money the website made for making up this rumor
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 ( @JokeDeity@lemm.ee ) 14•1 month ago
Here’s why anyone who thought that was happening is a dumbass: because obviously.
- Melody Fwygon ( @fwygon@beehaw.org ) 13•1 month 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 ( @Sina@beehaw.org ) 2•1 month ago
I just wish he lived a healthier life.
- Queen HawlSera ( @HawlSera@lemm.ee ) English5•1 month ago
He actually lost a shit ton of weight after he moved to New Zealand
- Vodulas [they/them] ( @Vodulas@beehaw.org ) 1•1 month ago
What do you mean?
- helenslunch ( @helenslunch@feddit.nl ) 8•1 month ago
A terrible idea for whom? Microsoft? I think not.
- s12 ( @s12@sopuli.xyz ) 2•1 month ago
I would. There’d hopefully be an exodus.
- helenslunch ( @helenslunch@feddit.nl ) 3•1 month ago
There most definitely wouldn’t be. No one cares.
- GreyEyedGhost ( @GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ) 2•1 month ago
Been plenty of exoduses from MS lately. Oh! You mean ones led by the employees…
- helenslunch ( @helenslunch@feddit.nl ) 2•1 month ago
No exoduses that I’m aware of. Show me.
- GreyEyedGhost ( @GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ) 5•1 month ago
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 ( @madkarlsson@beehaw.org ) 1•13 days ago
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 ( @GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ) 1•13 days ago
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.
- tombruzzo ( @tombruzzo@lemm.ee ) 5•1 month 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
- Queen HawlSera ( @HawlSera@lemm.ee ) English3•1 month 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.
- Queen HawlSera ( @HawlSera@lemm.ee ) English4•1 month ago
If Valve was a publicly traded company, Steam would have turned to shit ages ago.