*Valve laughs in Gabe Newell, owner of Valve and former employee of Microsoft.
Motherfucker left Microsoft to focus on games. He spearheaded the move to Linux to protect their store from becoming blocked on Windows. He knows how Microsoft works, intimately.
I’d be really surprised if Valve got sold to Microsoft while Newell still lives.
got sold to Microsoft while Newell still lives.
Surely you mean while he’s “Still Alive”, right?
They know that gaming is the one thing that often keeps people from switching to Linux. Buying up all these gaming companies is their strategy to keep gamers locked into Windows.
They know that gaming is the one thing that often keeps people from switching to Linux.
They know this because they keep purposefully making Windows worse and less consumer-friendly. They want you to use Windows how they want you to use it, in a way that maximizes profit for Microsoft.
wtf they just had trouble buying Activision/Blizzard and now they wanna buy Valve. they would ruin valve
No, three years ago they contemplated buying Nintendo or Valve. Activision happened because those two didn’t.
