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.
and I'd love to see Valve shift gears and start focus'ng on Steam as a platform and get smaller developers making games on them and funding projects the same way EA, Activision, Take Two, UBIsoft, etc. are doing.
... and in doing so, slowly becoming the way EA, Activsion an all the others have become? Big corporates with only one interest: Earning the maximum of cash in the shortest possible time period. Without regards for their customers or their contracted studios.
That is the way things get, when money is not rolling in steady creeks and streams, but giant rivers and oceans. Because at this time, the original founders are being bought out and ordinary businessmen take over, who have NO FUCKIN CLUE about making good games. Only about making money. Which is perfectly fine for them, but not for us ...
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