Believe it or not, the post of a so-called insider is bouncing around on social media with a preview that to define as absurd would be a pale understatement: according to the ‘deep throat’ with a passion for Counter-Strike, Microsoft would be willing to acquire Valve and Steam!
The author of this pseudo-indiscretion, the content creator known as xDior, attracted the attention of thousands of video game enthusiasts by claiming on Twitter/X that “Microsoft $80 billion in revenue and is preparing to launch a $16 billion bid to acquire Valve“.
If we want to listen to the self-styled insider, therefore, the Redmond house would be about to launch a purchase offer for the company led by Gabe Newell to take over every activity, from the management of internal development houses to the operations carried out by the Steam Deck design team, not to mention the Steam division that operates the most popular PC gaming platform in the world (Epic, CD Projekt and Epic Store and GOG.com users don’t mind).
Despite being feasible from an purely economic point of view (in consideration of Microsoft’s enormous financial resources), the hypothesis feared by the Counter-Strike content creator is at the limits of science fiction if we think back to thebitter battle fought by Microsoft with the FTC (and not only) to acquire Activision Blizzard Kinga legal war that, among other things, has not yet fully concluded.
Then there is another, important factor to consider, and it is that relating to the structure of Valve’s current financial assets: whether Gabe Newell owns 25% of the shares, a significant portion of the remaining share package appears to be in the hands of Valve employees, consequently a hypothetical purchase offer from Microsoft would have to involve a huge number of actors, and then be put to a vote among the shareholders themselves. It would therefore be aoperation of monumental proportions which, moreover, would concretely risk hitting the same wall raised by the antitrust bodies that did not look favorably on the acquisition of Activision by the American technological giant.
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