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Here's Why Microsoft Buying Valve Is A Terrible Idea (www.thegamer.com)

submitted 6 months ago by FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io to c/gaming

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 60 points 6 months ago (2 children)

No, Microsoft Probably Isn’t Going To Buy Valve

Clickbait.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It's not likely anyway, given how it would almost certainly result in an antitrust lawsuit.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They knew they got right up to the line with the last couple, the feds were already preparing documents and they knew it.

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 6 months ago

And yet the mergers still went through

[–] Midnitte 6 points 6 months ago

Valve also has no incentive - it's basically a free money machine.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 months ago

It also acts like $16 billion is both not enough, and a cartoonishly large amount. Meanwhile, Activision blizzard was just purchased by msft for $69 billion.