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Microsoft - keep your filthy hands off Valve, leak shows MSFT would buy Valve (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Gaben already refused to sell to EA and made it abundantly clear that we would rather let valve die than go public.

Microsoft also just recently said they'd buy Nintendo if they could.

All this means is that Microsoft is filthy rich and still doesn't know how to make an original quality game studio. They seem to overly rely on buying out studios and IPs that are successful to rake in more money.

spoilerAll of which reeks of an oligigopoly and reminds me of even worse companies like Oracle and AT&T

[–] ono@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That leaked email conveniently assumes the owner of Valve would sell it. I can't think of a reason for Gabe to do that.

[–] gamer@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the biggest problem with Valve at the moment. They're awesome, but only because of the current leadership. Once these guys retire or die, it's very likely Valve will enshittify like every other business.

Valve needs to be hit by regulators at some point. They just have too much market power.

[–] rambaroo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Valve is not awesome at all. Ffs, they didn't become a monopoly by accident. People need to stop worshipping this company just because they started packaging wine with their app.

This is the same company that literally started the trend of requiring storefronts and custom installers for their games with HL2... the exact same thing people whine about EA and Blizzard doing.

PC gaming will become a total shit show if Valve dies and they'll be fully responsible for it.

[–] FreeLikeGNU@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

just because they started packaging wine with their app

Even if that's all they did, that is more than anyone else is doing. What they really did was make nearly every game they sell easily playable without requiring you to use Windows. As byproduct, DXVK (part of Valve's Proton) provides greater compatibility and performance for Windows users as well (Intel ARC driver and DX9 game support for example). They have salaried employees working exclusively on making this work and their development is open source for anyone to use modify and share. Epic or any other store front could freely take advantage of this work and benefit why don't they do that instead of whining?

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

DONE with valve if this were to happen.

I'd rather not game at all than put up with that shit.

[–] odium@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it happens, the call of the seas will be irresistable.