Rumor Suggests Microsoft May Try To Buy Valve - Luke Reacts 

God no! Anything Microsoft touches turns to shit

If something like this were ever true, it would be the start of the downfall of PC gaming.

May God have mercy on our games.

Theres rumors microsoft is going to buy this channel? Thoughts?

If Microsoft gets either Nintendo or Valve then you might as well kiss the industry goodbye.

They don’t like that online gaming on pc is free.

I am fully convinced that anything creative that Microsoft touches is not long for this world. How unfortunate.

If Microsoft gets its grubby hands on Steam, I'll start pirating every single game.

Valve is a privately owned company. Microsoft cannot buy it unless Gabe wants to sell it, which won't happen.

$16B for Valve is way too low. There's no chance they would sell, not for that

Microsoft would turn Steam and PC gaming into garbage, Linux support would dwindle, innovation would be gone, and we would be lucky if it became Windows Exclusive. Backup your games boys!

1:28 Microsoft did try to buy Nintendo. Lookup Nintendo's response.

Typically Phil Spencer talking out of his ass with fantasies and dreams. Maybe he should have been more worried about making Xbox better than dreaming about buying Nintendo or Valve.

Seeing what those board of directors said about buying out Nintendo and Valve in those leaked documents is disgusting. No wonder their Xbox brand is crumbling.

Microsoft acquiring Activision Blizzard had serious monopoly concerns. Valve has had monopoly allegations levied at them as well. How Microsoft would legally be allowed to own Steam I don't even...

I thought Gabe had quotes (from like years ago) about how he didn't want sell to MS and/or generally bad feelings toward MS?

Valve isn’t public. Gabe would have to agree to sell them directly but I don’t think he will.

Sauron has returned, he is now called MS, How Will Gabedalf defend middle PC from the dark lord.

Microsoft is trying to buy gaming.

It's not just a rumor, microsoft in the last 5 years wanted to do that

Global regulators would NEVER allow Microsoft to buy Steam, and the literal monopolistic control they'd have on PC games sales.

Theres no way this happens after Microsoft bought Activision. Theyd literally have a monopoly.

Microsoft buys Steam....They'll find some way to force you to rebuy all your games. Put ads on everything.

Everyone send a hand written letter to Steam saying: FUCK MICROSOFT. FUCK BILL. WE LOVE GABEN.

Oh god please no. 😢 microsoft is gonna ruin valve.

Buying more things won't fix your shit decision making skills microsoft

Dude, Xbox needs to stop buying more studios and focus on the ones they have so they can help make better games for their Consols just take a break from buying studios. I really wish they could make us feel like we’re in a 360 era of gaming.

This is one of the reasons why I still buy physical copies for my Playstation

It wasnt a rumour Phil spencer said in a leaked memo saying Xbox wanted to buy out Value and Nintendo

Why would anyone sell a money printing machine

From a financial stand point it doesn't make sense. Microsoft spent nearly 85 billion dollars on the Activision merger which has yet to see a return on early investment and now they're going to spend another 16 billion (which btw Steam is clearly worth more) on a Steam acquistion when their total revenue for 2023 minus the operating income in 2023 was $211 billion?

That would be FUCKING awful😭that would be the downfall of PC gaming Microsoft is becoming such a pathetic company. They thought the same thing about Nintendo, truly no original ideas

Better fucking not

Microsoft would be a villian

Gabe selling to Microsoft? The chances of that is in the negative.

Nintendo being Nintendo tends to be best for us as consumers.

I know Monopoly laws are a joke, but there's no way this would pass

Oh god please no. No. Nooooooooooooo!

Valve would never sell themselves to the company they're actively competing against

“What beloved thing can I ruin for everyone in the world today?” -Phil Spencer, each and every morning

OMG no, pls no, no no nope nooooo

To say to a rich person "you already have enough money and power over society with all that influence" is an insult to them. Never count out the rest cass scenario

No. No. No. No. Just no.

Luke:"I don't like one company having that much power" BlackRock: "Hello there"

Been a gamer probably 38 out of my 43 years of life. If this turns out to be true I'm done forever. I'll take up golf or paintball or gardening. But MS buying Valve would ruin the industry forever.

I highly doubt it, but it wouldn't be surprising if they tried.

if that happens I will probably give up video games completely...it would be beyond shattering to PC gaming world ugh

Also microsoft: we are not trying to have a monopoly on the industry.

Should be illegal for microsoft to buy steam. Thats a full out monopoly. They already own the OS that almost every game runs on, and then owning a game launcher/DRM system for 99% of the games? That's a scary thought

The activision blizz acquisition wasnt good to begin with but people were like this is fine lol

If this happens the gaming industry is over creatively speaking. Everything Microsoft touch it become garbage .

I really like Steam as is. I DO NOT want Microsoft buying them. I'm sick of these big companies buying everything.

I hope it stays a rummor 🙏

Christ I shudder at the idea of Microsoft buying Nintendo and Valve

I would absolutely sell the shirt off my back for 50$

I’m absolutely certain that photo of Gabe playing the Steam Deck on the couch is taken from a satire video about voice actors and development time compared to Valve Time.

If they somehow did buy Valve, MS should expect to see gamers surrounding their buildings with torches and pitchforks.

I have some serious doubts that Gabe and the team over there would sell at all. They have it made over there. And Steam keeps them very much alive. Gabe himself many times has said he's glad they don't have investors to please because he wants as few people between them and the customers as possible.

Microsoft can't play those corporate games with Valve. Valve is not a publicly traded company.

There's no way in hell this would be approved by regulators. It'd create a PC gaming monopoly.

Well... I would stop gaming all together then...

We forget that lord gabe is a mortal like us even though he looks like the saviour nowadays. But one day this will happen

Microsoft can't play those corporate games with foreign companies. I don't know about Japanese law but in France the government has to approve foreign ownership.

This would potentially lead to even more antitrust scrutiny than the ABK deal because of how much of the market Valve controls for PC game distribution

I guess it's time to shut down Ninja Theory to buy Valve!!!! Or shut down Ninja Theory just because Microsoft is being greedy.

Where did the 16 billion number come from? Apparently, Valve makes over 8.5 billion each year from software sales alone (in the region of 12 billion per year total). The numbers don't add up - Microsoft would likely need to offer in the region of 60 billion (5 years worth of total income) to even be considered.

I was just literally talking to myself in the shower about this last night. The timing is crazy.

NO!!!! I do not need Microsoft killing the PC marketplace with their crap

Microsoft is just trying to buy money at this point. Failure to compete spells doom for any business; no matter what companies they buy, Microsoft has not shown they are capable of not screwing this up.

Selling Valve to Microsoft is not decided by that list you showed. Its decided by Gabe. And I doubt Gabe has any intention to step down from his throne. Its not that he lacks personal funds, and can even buy a second car any time he wants.

The Anti Trust authorities would never let this happen.

This is why we have antitrust laws. Unfortunately, we don't have an FTC with the stones to do anything about it.

Nintendo's market price is $13.33 per share right now.

they cant just do that, valve isnt publically traded as far as i know...also thats a lot less than activision blizzard, valve should cost a lot more

Pants to be darkened AND IF TRUE SUPER ILLEGAL

Can't happen. The ABK acquisition almost got shot down on anti-trust laws, and Valve is a much larger chunk of the market share. There's no way even Microsoft can pony up the funds to buy out Valve, and even if they could (which would involve going into frankly cosmic levels of debt) they'd be shot down by both the US and EU on the basis of anti-trust. If the EU was willing to poo-poo the deal based on how much of the cloud-gaming space Microsoft controlled with just ABK then doing it but like ten times bigger is a no-fly zone.

Anti-Trust would for sure block this.

That would be absolutely terrible if Microsoft would buy Valve.

Gabe Newell better not hand the company over to Microsoft.

Gabe probably laughing at Xbox always tripping over their own feet every 5 minutes 😂

Thats a horrible idea, they're 70 billion in the whole, they not dropping X billions to buy Valve

I am a grown man. I audibly gasped.

How can it be legal for Microsoft to still dream about buying more big companies. That’s a monopoly

at most they'll probably have some sort of deal if anything

After ABK no regulatory agency will ever allow MSFT to do another purchase of that size

Whether this is true or not, I hate how Microsoft is trying to become a monopoly within the gaming space. Even after buying studio after studio, they still have nothing to show for it and even when they do have something that is great (Hi-Fi Rush), it isn’t enough for them. Resulting in shut downs and layoffs. My guess is that if this is true, buying Valve is a safe investment because most of its money (presumably) comes from Steam. With that being said, buying Valve for them wouldn’t be the same as any regular studio acquisition, it’s more of buying the ownership to the best profitable store for PC gamers. Which means that they don’t have to worry about any investment loss from a game since Valve owns Steam. It’s just a constant profit generator that will make up the money that they spent buying Valve plus additional profit. If this is true, then any money they save from layoffs and shutdowns will more than likely go to this acquisition.

NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Did anyone really read this as a thing that will happen? Obviously, any company would ideally want to buy up things that make them money. It was basically the equivalent of am executives corporate Christmas wish list

Am I missing something? 16b seems offensive, why would they even bother offering that amount and why then would Valve even entertain a meeting for that amount? Maybe they forgot a 0 at the end? If ABK sold for 68b+ then Valve is probably worth 120b considering the realtive worth and reported revenues for the two companies?

I would'nt be mad but I think after closing three development studios and merging one in to Zenimax and then offering devs of Zenimax money to leave this would be a step backwards for Xbox. Also you would have to ask WHY!?

They won’t sell and at best they’ll make an app for console to stream you’re games and license it out. But Valve isn’t stupid enough to selling to a console company- software company.

* Incoherent Screaming *

I really like the Skyrim lofi music

Gabe said before that he would rather close the company rather than sell it to a mega corporation And that was when steam was just starting with the amount of money valve generate from steam cs dota steam deck and how profitable the company is there is no insentive for him or other valve share holders to sell to microsoft or any other company and i doubt microsoft could by valve for 16 billion when the company make the same amout add to that the multiple world agency would block it

There's a running list of every company Xbox has talked about buying... it's everybody

Imagine Microsoft adquiring Nintendo just to shut it down a few years later because is “not profitable”

I'd believe them buy Epic before buy steam. That's just TOO much of a market share of PC gaming store fronts

Gabe answer: u mad bro

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck no. And I speak for everyone. I don’t think Valve ever would, though.

It's all over if Microsoft buys Valve. But this kind of thing was what I always feared why we should never let ourselves get addicted to any software, no matter how good the original guy is about it. All it takes is he gets bought out.