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Creston wrote on Sep 27, 2012, 10:56:
jdwohlever wrote on Sep 27, 2012, 10:34:
I hope to God this never happens. Steam is perfect the way it is. We don't need some money hungry foreign company coming in and destroying what Valve has done. Leave Steam alone.
Isn't Steam a separate entity? They may just be talking about merging Valve with Nexon, and then splitting Steam off entirely.
But I fail to see why Valve, with its completely untraditional no-managers set-up, would merge with a Korean publisher, which is 100% purely manager driven. It's like saying that Chrysler is interested in merging with the Home Depot. It makes no sense whatsoever.
Creston
Synergy!
Even thinking beyond this, why do private companies get acquired?
1) The owners want out (retire, start something new, etc.)
2) The owners want to cash out while the price is high (I think this is part of why Epic sold - it gives the aging owners liquidity they really haven't had over it's 20someodd years)
3) They need capital and need it badly
Well, we don't think Gabe is going anywhere, so 1 is out. He's already independently wealthy and probably drawing a huge salary, so I would guess 2 is out. And they are stupidly profitable, so 3 is out.
We don't even need to speculate on why they'd choose this particular company - there's no real need for them to sell at all. |
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Sep 27, 10:31 |
Re: Korean Valve Bid? |
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Sep 27, 10:33 |
Re: Korean Valve Bid? |
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Sep 27, 10:34 |
Re: Korean Valve Bid? |
jdwohlever |
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Sep 27, 10:56 |
Re: Korean Valve Bid? |
Creston |
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Sep 27, 11:43 |
Re: Korean Valve Bid? |
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Sep 27, 11:47 |
Re: Korean Valve Bid? |
Beamer |
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Sep 27, 13:02 |
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Sep 27, 12:25 |
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El Pit |
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Sep 27, 18:13 |
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edaciousx |
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Sep 28, 00:54 |
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El Pit |
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Sep 29, 09:13 |
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Smellfinger |
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Sep 27, 13:10 |
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Matshock |
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Sep 27, 10:42 |
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deqer |
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Sep 27, 13:26 |
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Sep 27, 14:36 |
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Dev |
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Sep 27, 16:29 |
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Sep 27, 16:59 |
Re: Korean Valve Bid? |
jdwohlever |
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Sep 27, 17:51 |
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RollinThundr |
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Sep 28, 10:47 |
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Sep 27, 16:13 |
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Sep 27, 12:23 |
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El Pit |
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Sep 27, 18:41 |
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Sep 27, 19:02 |
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Sep 27, 12:33 |
Re: Korean Valve Bid? |
Dev |
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Sep 27, 13:45 |
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Sep 27, 14:13 |
Re: Korean Valve Bid? |
Beamer |
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Sep 27, 14:48 |
Re: Korean Valve Bid? |
Creston |
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Sep 27, 15:06 |
Re: Korean Valve Bid? |
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Sep 27, 16:07 |
Re: Korean Valve Bid? |
Creston |
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Sep 27, 13:53 |
Re: Korean Valve Bid? |
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Sep 27, 15:36 |
Re: Korean Valve Bid? |
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Sep 27, 15:37 |
Re: Korean Valve Bid? |
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Sep 27, 17:04 |
Re: Korean Valve Bid? |
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Sep 27, 19:36 |
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Sep 27, 19:41 |
Re: Korean Valve Bid? |
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Sep 27, 19:42 |
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Sep 27, 21:22 |
Re: Korean Valve Bid? |
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Sep 27, 21:37 |
Re: Korean Valve Bid? |
Dev |
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Sep 27, 21:43 |
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Sepharo |
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