• BURN@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There’s no chance GabeN sells Steam. It prints money and only looks to increase their profitability over the coming years.

    Microsoft can’t buy them anyways at this point I think. The regulatory bodies didn’t like ActiBlizzard, and this would be similar scale, if not larger

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      1 year ago

      I do worry about what might happen when he gets too old/decides to step down though.

      If Microsoft did somehow end up buying them I might have to just nope out of gaming altogether. Or just take to the high seas I guess.

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        1 year ago

        I have to imagine he has something planned (inb4 GabeN AI Overlord) for after he’s gone.

        He’s a bit crazy about prepping for disaster iirc. He lives in New Zealand now and has since the Covid outbreak. I’d be surprised if there wasn’t a very long document that lays out a lot of rules for if he’s gone and Steam is to continue

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      1 year ago

      The regulatory bodies hand waved actiblizzard through. Let’s not pretend anything else happened there. Microsoft can do whatever they want and no one is gonna stop them. Same as every other big company.

      The only thing stopping Ms. is that valve is a privately owned company. But everyone has a price.