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EA sought to buy Valve for $1 billion - Report - GameSpot.com
The thought sends a shiver down my spine.
The thought sends a shiver down my spine.
Gabe Newell says company would rather "disintegrate" than sell out
Despite the billion dollar offer, Newell said Valve would prefer to "disintegrate" than ever sell out.
Rasczak said:AAA PC gaming has never been so vulnerable IMHO - at present it is almost exclusively Steam led - and if something happens to Steam then we will be in a very uncomfortable position. What rights will we have, I wonder, if a third party does buy Steam and in the course of time 'discontinues' games we have 'brought'?
Of course the community clutches into the belief this will 'never' happen because 'Gabe' said it wouldn't. Well I am sorry but I just don't buy into this concept that Valve, a commercial company, runs Steam for the benefit of mankind. Bad times ahead IMHO - and this is why we should all be rooting for Origin and other platforms to rise to challenge Steam.
This is a wind up right..we should all be rooting for Origin and other platforms to rise to challenge Steam.
this is why we should all be rooting for Origin and other platforms to rise to challenge Steam.
AAA PC gaming has never been so vulnerable IMHO - at present it is almost exclusively Steam led - and if something happens to Steam then we will be in a very uncomfortable position. What rights will we have, I wonder, if a third party does buy Steam and in the course of time 'discontinues' games we have 'brought'?
Of course the community clutches into the belief this will 'never' happen because 'Gabe' said it wouldn't. Well I am sorry but I just don't buy into this concept that Valve, a commercial company, runs Steam for the benefit of mankind. Bad times ahead IMHO - and this is why we should all be rooting for Origin and other platforms to rise to challenge Steam.
You do know you're trying to express your views to closed minded people?
I sense a certain amount of irony there
I sense a certain amount of irony there
Broken Record.
Indeed ...
Pro-Steam/Anti-Steam. I'm really not arsed. You can't please everyone, yet no download service (i.e. Origin, Steam etc) has ever wronged me, so er, I've got nothing to say on any of them.
Explains your attitude then.
Hopefully this would/will happen. But in the terminal days of a company - where perhaps administrators are trying to preserve and sell on every little bit of a company - do we really believe that the resell value would be abandoned as a gesture for the fans? Really? I think that is all part of Values PR stance that, whilst very effective, is probably an empty gesture that costs them nothing now and nothing should they disregard it in the event of Steam being wound up.I trust newell when he says if steam ever closed doors he would make everybody's games available to them. origin would never do that