EA sought to buy Valve for $1 billion - Report

I hope EA rots.. I think the last title by them that I paid for was Red Alert 2. Most of the crap they make now isn't even worth the disk space, and that says a lot when terabyte drives are no big deal.

F that. Valve are closer to freedom fighters of gaming than some bottom line business. They'd never sell out.

Everyone seems to want to damage or sue or buy valve since they set a standard of honesty and fairness that no one else wants to adhere to. Low prices, no drm, no unfair day one dlc. Games as they should be

I'm very glad. Valve is imo the best company in the PC gaming industry and i certainly don't want Valve bought by another company esspacially EA

Presumably, EA's strategy is to buy all the gaming companies and unite them into the Glorious Electronic Kingdom of Gaming (GEKoG).  From their they will purchase actors for personal enjoyment, proceed to buy out Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios, and 21st Century Fox, and they will create films based on memes in order to create easy cash.  By then they should have enough income to purchase and maintain Blackwater.  They can then gather all their resources onto unclaimed wilderness land and declare themselves to be a sovereign nation.  Then they get nuked, and peace returns.

Admirable, that decision is not made by enough other entities. But i doubt that EA will be deterred at all, if they really really want valve, they'll keep after them until EA gets what it wants.

What exactly is EA's strategy ??? Buying out every other gaming company so that it remains the Last Corp Standing ??? Wonder what will be the state of the gaming industry then !!!

The day EA buys Valve is when the world ends in ashes

Why offer a billion when physically presenting a Double Whopper with cheese would have sealed the deal in about ten seconds.

Wow... I read this after reading this one GS interview one of EA's upper dogs explaining that they're not bad people. Wow...

Valve said, and I quote, "They would die before talking". 

I love Gabe Newell.  That quote made me laugh out loud :P

lol...thats the benefit of being private, nobody can touch you, not EA, not investors, not regular joes on the street.  All power rests in a few peoples hands.  When those people are good and have gamers at heart like Gabe does, then a company like steam is born and everyone benefits.  EA can suk my harry dingalongs.  Heres hoping steam stays private.

Why the hell did EA even think Valve could be bought like that. EA has that every competition can be bought out mentality, which is sickening. Good on Valve for not selling out. Now how about Half Life 3? ^.^

OMG my son just cringed when he heard me tell this story.  EA would have found a way to destroy TF2 probably.

What will EA do if they cant buy other peoples ideas and work.

They should spend that money on there own company.

Anyone remember Westwood? Ohh yeah, thats before EA bought them and then three years later closed them down and stole their intelectual propitiy

Finally a great game studio with balls to tell EA to suck it. Gordon Freeman will always be a Free Man!!!

i hate EA for ruining bioware, so nice work valve

You know the EA executives must be steaming.

The last thing the industry needs is more consolidation. Thank God for people like Gabe Newell standing up to EA.

Still, I'm worried eventually EA or Activision will make an offer he can't refuse...

"Despite the billion dollar offer, Newell said Valve would prefer to "disintegrate" than ever sell out."

God mode.

OMG!!!!!!     Valve, i take back everything i ever said about you!   that is an un-believeably awesome slap in the face to EA, which i greatly enjoyed hearing! Thank you for not selling out!

Whoever organized this deserves a medal! From Destructoid's Twitter: EA's Facebook page trolled with hentai, Gabe Newell pics http://dtoid.it/TSPnvZ

Disintegrate hahahahaha. I can't stop laughing. That's a big slap in the face isn't it? Whether he meant it literally or metaphorically, it doesn't matter. EA can go through a portal and end up where the sun don't shine!!!!

?It?s way more likely we would head in that direction than say, ?Let?s find some giant company that wants to cash us out and wait two or three years to have our employment agreements terminate,?"

That had me laughing out loud...

I hate to say this but the only reason he's not selling out is he already has a personal net worth of 1.5 BILLION.

Keep your dirty hands from valve EA Choke with your origins srsly.

THANK GOODNESS GABE. IMAGINE THE HORRORS IF YOU ACTUALLY SOLD OUT TO THEM...

"HALF LIFE 4"

OMG THANK YOU FOR NOT SELLING OUT

EA keep you're dirty diseased mits off Valve!!! For crying out loud the only way you seem to know how to get new talent is to poach it from else ware!!

Then when you do take over the companies you force them to make endless amounts of sequels for example:

Westwood were taken over by EA back in 1998 just after the final releases of Counterstrike and The Aftermath have they made a decent game since then well no not really WW was then closed in 2003 when all the talent juice was gone.

Maxis was another one doing fine on its own creating simcity and so on until they were acquired in 1997 now they bloody release a new sims game way to often.

So in short Valve stick you're middle finger at the corporate greed that is EA, heaven forbid if this goes through and then we should expect yearly instalments of Portal, Half Life, and CS, which will then ruin it for everyone!!!

The only Valve game I've ever played is Portal 1, and I borrowed it from my brother.  I have begrudgingly used Steam a couple times when I bought a retail copy of a game and it actually just installed and downloaded from steam.  I have zero commitment to Valve as an actual supplier of products I care about.  And yet I love this news story.  I love what Valve tries to be in this industry as an employer.  I love that Gabe won't sell out his company that he built to anyone else.  And I love that EA got snubbed (by anyone).

Don't go to fail. Don't go directly to fail. Do not sell out. Do not collect a billion dollars. Well played Newel.

EA Executives: "We would like to buy Valve for $1,000,000,000."

Gabe Newell: "I can anser that with four simple words: NO CHANCE IN HELL!!!"

Valve Excecutives: "If you're not down with that, WE'VE GOT TWO WORDS FOR YA!!!!"

Valve Fanbase: "SUCK IT!!!!!!"

*Queue the Degeneration X theme*

"...and wait two or three years..."

I didn't know Gabe could count to three.

EA: We'll buy you for 1 billion dollars.

Valve: While that sounds like a good offer, I'm afraid I just don't have any more room in my change pocket.

Same guy that said he hated Sony (paraphrase), right? Yeah, he's an honest one, and doesn't sell out at all at the 1st sign of Sony throwing money at Portal 2 (and all of a sudden is on Sony's E3 stage, lol). Good thing all these fanboys don't worship him. Oh, wait... :(

I wasn't a fan of Half Life 2..I loved 1.. but not 2 or any of its sequels.. but steam is amazing and I give Valve props for helping us PC gamers stay alive.

Sell out? Like making all users agree to mandatory arbitration clauses? Too late, Valve...too late. It's sad they still try to act cool.

I pray the day never comes where EA purchases Take Two or Valve.  So many good franchises would be destroyed.

''Gabe Newell says company would rather "disintegrate" than sell out.'' '' ?Let?s find some giant company that wants to cash us out and wait two or three years to have our employment agreements terminate,'' Ouch! I didn't know steam could give you a .... BURN! *snap*

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! 

...Even though I can't say I ever really liked any Valve games...

EA. I'll pay you 1BILLION DOLLARS for this property !

Steam. Nope.

release Half Life 3 and you valve can buy EA