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Google to buy Valve
jkh13 \| 6:22 AM on 09.17.2008	10 comments

The inquirer is reporting that Google is set to buy Valve very soon.

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/09/17/google-valve

The aquisition is likely because they want to capatilize on the excellent Steam platform and use its technology to develop its own stable content distribution platform. They certainly have enough money to make the aquisition happen but I fear for Valve as they have never been tied to any large company before and it could be messy regarding retail distribution of their games.

Also who knows what google might do to Valve? If they owned them they could enforce certain things like deadlines for games e.t.c. which is not the valve way of working.

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9 comments | showing # 1 to 9

Rifter01

o.O; I've read The Inq. on/off for many months.. I hope this isn't true!

RJG

Because the Inquirer are so reputable and all...

And Valve were tied to a publisher previously: Vivendi. When Valve started pushing Steam and made it a requirement for HL2 to work, Vivendi started a lawsuit against Valve.

the Golden Avatar

This sounds like a total fabrication. I'll wait for a source that isn't the Inquirer.

And Google doesn't even enforce deadlines on themselves.

Wexx

Google time + Valve time = ??????

I don't know about that merger, sounds fishy and unlikely.

Mr Wilson

YOU DON'T SAY THAT!

SLiFE

And while i hesitate to use the word "tied," don't they have a publishing agreement with EA?

Brian Szabelski

Please no. I don't like this idea one bit.

covah

no no no no no no no no no no no no no

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