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

No, Microsoft Probably Isn’t Going To Buy Valve

Clickbait.

Who was even suggesting that this was a thing that might ever happen?

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.

Fuckin SHUT UP!

We don't want to give those MS assholes ANY ideas.

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.

It's fake

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.

A terrible idea for whom? Microsoft? I think not.

I'm still mad about what Microsoft did to Rare and think about what the Nintendo landscape would look like if it never happened

If Valve was a publicly traded company, Steam would have turned to shit ages ago.