MS wants to buy Valve too

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Neogaf trying to understand that companies analyze the market and have list of threats and opportunities that includes every single notable company challenge level: Impossible
 
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Valve has no reason to sell. Their making more money then ever before. They have a strangle hold on the pc gaming market with Steam. Just another fantasy deal for Phil boy.
 
MS is like Rich Richie looking for new friends, if u have no friend and lots of money you just need to bought them all



someone pls, put phill face on richie and studio names on "the friends"
 
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The more I read about the "leaks" the more I've come to the conclusion that Twitter and gaming bloggers like IGN, or in this case MSN, are making a huge fuzz about nothing. Nothing here is newsworthy. Just fucking clickbait drama for the sake of it.
 
Dr. Suchong said:
EA looking pretty good right now..
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Man if Microsoft bought EA as well, they would essentially have the "big three" RTS franchises under their belt. Age of Empires, WarCraft and Command & Conquer. And I genuinely believe taht Microsoft would be better stewards for both WarCraft and Command & Conquer than current Blizzard and current EA are.
 
Hudo said:
Man if Microsoft bought EA as well, they would essentially have the "big three" RTS franchises under their belt. Age of Empires, WarCraft and Command & Conquer. And I genuinely believe taht Microsoft would be better stewards for both WarCraft and Command & Conquer than current Blizzard and current EA are.
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I was actually making a subtle reference to Microsoft possibly being eventually hated on more than EA.
But I totally agree with your point 👍
 
Drizzlehell said:
Holy shit, this is getting a little tiresome.

"BREAKING NEWS - MICROSOFT WANTS ALL THE MONNIEZ"

"Tidal waves at 11..."
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It's just that teenagers on this board and on Twitter and Reddit haven't yet heard of M&A departments at big-ass corporations and what these departments do.

Conversations like in these "leaked" emails is something every bigger corporation with an M&A department is holding every day. Even for only hypothetical mergers/buyouts and even for possible mergers/buyouts that competitors could do, just to be prepared for it.
Phil talking to his bosses about Nintendo and Valve is... really nothing newsworthy.
 
Like I told folks — this is their culture. There is absolutely no reason they would need to do this, but if they can't win on actually competing (how would they know if they don't try, right?), their thought is to just buy buy buy.

They have plenty of devs/pubs now (and did when this was written).
 
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Hudo said:
It's just that teenagers on this board and on Twitter and Reddit haven't yet heard of M&A departments at big-ass corporations and what these departments do.

Conversations like in these "leaked" emails is something every bigger corporation with an M&A department is holding every day. Even for only hypothetical mergers/buyouts and even for possible mergers/buyouts that competitors could do, just to be prepared for it.
Phil talking to his bosses about Nintendo and Valve is... really nothing newsworthy.
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For you.
 
T4keD0wN said:
Neogaf trying to understand that companies analyze the market and have list of threats and opportunities that includes every single notable company challenge level: Impossible
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I'd love to see the communications from Sony about buying Nintendo or valve. #sonytoo crowd working overtime.
 
OmegaSupreme said:
I'd love to see the communications from Sony about buying Nintendo or valve. #sonytoo crowd working overtime.
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Indeed. I don't usually use the word "copium", but the past 36 hours have shown me the way.

I agree that corps. have merger discussions often, yes, but on this scale is another matter. And, once again for the kids in the back, Microsoft admitted openly that they will be doing more of these types of acquisitions. We're not talking some 3rd party dev who works closely with them, but big shit. They already scrounged up Zenimax, highly likely to close on Activision, and we have proof that they still want Nintendo. Doesn't take an optometrist to see the writing on the wall.
 
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valve can actually use some of their storefront expertise, steam had a good run.
but windows store is all the rage nowadays baby!!
bought!
 
OmegaSupreme said:
I'd love to see the communications from Sony about buying Nintendo or valve. #sonytoo crowd working overtime.
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I dunno, they're probably too busy doing their jobs (ensuring that PS5 has a healthy amount of exclusive games) to worry about buying companies to do that job for them.

:messenger_grinning_sweat: I jest... sort of.
 
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