Valve on Being Acquired - Blue's News Comments

Valve on Being Acquired
[Aug 05, 2008, 09:20 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments

A Q&A with Valve's Lombardi Gamasutra from yesterday (thanks Ant and Play.tm) makes mention of Valve's openness to being acquired, though it seems like this is more an answer to a hypothetical question, rather than an indication that a deal for the developer is in the works. On being acquired Lombardi says they are "happy to have that conversation," but adds: "By the same token, the company's doing pretty well, and we're really happy with what we're doing, So we'll see. I mean, anything is possible." The remainder of that piece concentrates on heaping praise on Electronic Arts. The main body of the Q&A is posted separately on Gamasutra, focusing on Valve's acquisition of Turtle Rock Studios and progress on Left 4 Dead.

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Aug 5, 2008, 10:33

theyarecomingforyou

... Aug 5, 2008, 10:33

Aug 5, 2008, 10:33

theyarecomingforyou

One good thing I could see coming from EA acquiring Valve would be the merging of Steam with the EA Download service - if that was to happen that would be a huge boost to digital distribution. However, the likelihood is that EA would fuck it up by doing something stupid like shutting down Steam.

NEway, this sounds more like a "we're happy to talk to anyone but have no plans to be acquired" than anything more serious.

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