Subj : Re: Latest Valve's announcement
To   : hollowone
From : Arelor
Date : Thu Nov 27 2025 06:15:46

  Re: Re: Latest Valve's announcement
  By: hollowone to Arelor on Thu Nov 27 2025 12:04 am

 > They may try... to buy Steam.. that would be better for them instead of
 > competing. This is such fucked up app store platform if I think about it as
 > windows-native. and app stores are saturated now.. hard to convince anybody
 > to change when everybody has a 10+ years long tail backlog in their
 > libraries.
 >
 > I think steam is invincible and by making PC gaming OS agnostic they are
 > bigger treat to Windows business than MS could ever be to them.
 >

I don't think any company is invincible if they fall asleep.

In my opinion, Microsoft has less of a chance than an icecube in the flaming pits of hell when it comes to pushing a game store, but they are actually trying. In case you are not following the headlines, Microsoft is in the process of "suicidating" their Xbox branch and turning them away from a console-centric department and into a sophisticated storefront.

They have been buying studios in spades for a while now in order to fuel their library and they are already experimenting by licensing the Xbox brand to third party hardware manufacturers. It is obvious they are extremely serious about their strategical change of pace.

I agree it would be better for them to outright buy Steam, but I don't think Valve is going to sell so easily.


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