Completely agree about the not selling. Not so sure that Google would get zero benefit, though.
Firstly, Valve is extremely profitable, crazily so, and seems (imo) unlikely to stop being so profitable, so short of a crazily high PE ratio it would eventually pay for itself. Secondly, they'd be buying a userbase of 100m+, including presumably lots of interesting data from steam chat, gaming preferances, etc.
Firstly, Valve is extremely profitable, crazily so, and seems (imo) unlikely to stop being so profitable, so short of a crazily high PE ratio it would eventually pay for itself. Secondly, they'd be buying a userbase of 100m+, including presumably lots of interesting data from steam chat, gaming preferances, etc.