Microsoft is not buying Valve & Counter-Strike for £12 billion - unsurprisingly
metro.co.uk
A rumour that Microsoft wants to take over the PC market with a £12 billion acquisition of Valve is being ridiculed on social media.
  • Gutek8134English
    100·
    5 months ago

    If Microsoft bought Valve I’d probably never buy a PC game again. Because all the companies selling them would be companies I don’t wanna give money.

    What about itch?

      • dsemyEnglish
        120·
        5 months ago

        GOG is a subsidiary of CD Projekt (which I personally don’t trust after the disastrous release of Cyberpunk 2077, and the empty promises of bringing GOG Galaxy to Linux; they also stretch the definition of DRM-free in some cases).

        • SummzashiEnglish
          24·
          5 months ago

          Well, steam isn’t even remotely DRM free. Valve is also far from flawless (allowing TF2 to be ran by hackers for literal years) and run by a multi billionaire. But sure, cyberpunk was unoptimized.

          • dsemyEnglish
            21·
            5 months ago

            Ok? I didn’t claim anything about Steam

            • SummzashiEnglish
              22·
              5 months ago

              Uhh this thread is about alternatives to Steam, so…

              • dsemyEnglish
                20·
                5 months ago5 months ago

                I was trying to say GOG isn’t comparable to Itch…

                Edit: Btw I buy games from all 3, if I didn’t do business with every company I don’t trust I’d probably starve by now