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Microsoft is not buying Valve and Counter-Strike for £12 billion (metro.co.uk)

submitted 6 months ago by deranger@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] unreasonabro@lemmy.world 87 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Jesus christ what a nightmare suggestion. That would be the death of the last good site on the internet. The enshittification they would inflict upon us as they fire all the senior staff, "legally" and onesidedly change all the contracts you've signed without your consultation, prune content, discontinue support for features and gear (byebye linux users), and increase their cut of dev's pie - it'd be truly legendary. Legenshitty, that's how bad it would be.

[–] Emmie@lemm.ee 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Thousands would board the ships again. The stability of steam is a huge reason why I often buy games

[–] PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That would likely also destroy the entire indie dev economy. I highly doubt Microsoft would price things in such a way that continues making it viable for small or single person development teams to make profit.

I'm sure the biggest reason they want to buy it is so they can try to put a stop to gaming on Linux. The prospect of putting windows-only anticheat in the steam client and steam runtime probably has Microsoft executives foaming at the mouth.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

At this point I wanna fucking die

[–] unreasonabro@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Meh, the world is hell, but the games are cool and you can always just steal shit from the people who obviously don't deserve your money. Really, everyone ought to be doing that on principle, to help bring them down, but try explaining actual morality to the church crowd lol