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Rumor: EA Wants, And Has Tried, To Acquire Valve

Posted on Monday, September 10 @ 12:06:07 Eastern by Jonathan_Leack

This just in, EA is serious about making games awful for everyone.

A report by The New York Times alleges that Electronic Arts has been interested in purchasing Valve and are very serious about the offer. The largest buyout price supposedly hit around $1 billion which may seem sizeable but is less than half of the company's total equity, and even less than Gabe Newell's net worth.

Speaking of Mr. Newell, he has no interest in such a deal—thankfully—and went as far as to say that it's more likely that Valve would "disintegrate" before EA would get a piece of the cake.

It's not surprising that one of the world's largest video game corporations is interested in one of the most intuitive. Valve's positive reputation and constructive communication with its fanbase are certainly values that EA would love to obtain.

In addition, EA's Origin platform has had trouble capturing a market despite offering major exclusives such as Mass Effect 3 and Star Wars: The Old Republic. Merging the platform with its biggest rival, Steam, would make things a lot easier.

Truthfully, such a buyout would be a great thing for EA, but let's hope it never happens.
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  • LawnGnome
    LawnGnome
    Joined: Apr 2007
    Posted: Sep 10th, 2012 at 1:00 pm
    Probably the worst casualty of such a deal would be the Steam sales/prices. The consumer dodged a mighty big bullet on this one.
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  • wildmario
    wildmario
    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Sep 10th, 2012 at 1:01 pm
    So EA is doing the MIcrosoft strategy, huh? "If you can't beat em, buy em!"
    0 0
  • De-Ting
    De-Ting
    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Sep 10th, 2012 at 1:06 pm
    I'm glad to see somebody has morals in this industry.
    0 0
  • thedarkstar
    thedarkstar
    Joined: Feb 2011
    Posted: Sep 10th, 2012 at 1:16 pm
    Oh god I hope this never happens. I love me some Steam sales, and I don't want to be dependent on EA for....well, anything really.
    0 0
  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous
    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Sep 10th, 2012 at 1:29 pm
    On that day, if it ever happened, Steam would die and many of us pc gamers would die a little inside as well.
    0 0
  • shandog137
    shandog137
    Joined: Mar 2007
    Posted: Sep 10th, 2012 at 3:14 pm
    Please read the article, Valve is the best place to work and then pause...and consider EA ever finding it's way onto that list...
    0 0
  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez
    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Sep 10th, 2012 at 3:15 pm
    Thats why I've always loved steam. Because they understood you have to have a special and caring relationship with gamers.

    Nice give us Half Life 3
    0 1
  • Andy578
    Andy578
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Sep 11th, 2012 at 1:21 am
    yep it would pretty much be the end of Steam and really Valve, it only takes a quick history lesson to see what EA does with companys they buy

    EA is a dieing brand and its their own evil ways that has brought their destruction, buying Valve would not fix them anyway and would only add 1 more company to the long list they have destroyed

    i guess were lucky Valve is private and theres no shares for EA to use for a hostile takeover
    1 0
  • LinksOcarina
    LinksOcarina
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Sep 11th, 2012 at 2:22 pm
    Eh...I think nothing would change in the end, or at least that much, other than an integration of Steam into Origin somehow.

    But it will never happen so I guess it's fun to speculate.
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