EA tried to buy Valve for 1.000.000.000

If that transaction did happen i would have quit PC gaming all together (not joking here)

I wouldn't buy EA if I had money. It would be too difficult to change anything, regarding shareholders and company's business behavoiur. I like Valve's business model much better. No shareholders, no debts, no offices aroung the world and small amount of employees make Valve one of the most successful companies in its league.

Cuz heroes never surrender. They rather die! Yay, Gabe. I'd kiss his feet if I could.

Apparently it didn't quite work out like this at all, rumours
edit: Oops didn't realise someone mentioned this above

reasons of why EA sucks

1. secuROM
   which makes you install only 5 times(fu**)
2. fu**ing expensive

Silly EA. Valve might buy EA someday... :P

I am not surprised that EA would honestly try this.

I love ya Valve!

Typical, EA trying to control the market. First trying to compete with Steam using their inferior origin service and completely ruining the game experience of several games. Secondly trying to "BUY" steam lmfao.

1 billion only? Perhaps they've never heard of Steam. What a joke, they're on the sinking ship, NOT Valve.

missed to comment here, now did, thanks.

Who cares ...

How Intel would buy Amd troll lol :-)
we do not need, we need monopolistic competitors,
but I don't need EA :-)

Imagine if they had bought out valve. Half life 3 extneded cut.

If EA would buy valve it would be horrible..
Imagine "Half life 3.you play as Gordon freeman a scientist from black mesa discovered a portal to the land of the alien spieces, then the reapers return to our galaxy to destroy us all,Gordon Freeman while he was on that place delayed them from coming sooner,and in a big explosion the time froze and a mysterious man who calls himself G-man(rumors say his hanging out with a someone hawke, a grey warden and a witch of the wilds)and he saves you teleporting you in a train,which you arrive in the future where the reapers (known as combine cause nobody believed freeman since all the evidence of black mesa was gone) have control of the earth but Gordon Freeman TALKS (with multiple choices in a circular option panel) with his former friends from the lab and becomes a part of a rebel group,he can choose who he travels with against the forces of the combine ,the Dog a powerful cyborg dog,Alyx a sexy agile chick (you can dance with her in a club on district 9 but gordon freeman sucks at dancing since he learned to dance from a commander but thats another story)and lamarr a headcrab,then he travels around earth collecting fishes and rocket models for his apartment doing favors who random strangers who then sent a mail thanking him... theres also an easter egg which you can "work" in Community service picking up cans"

yeah im just THAT bored while waiting for a game to get patched :S

Imagine if that happens. Portal 3 would be the same as Portal 2 but just with "awesome" perks for portal gun that makes you overpowered. Cool. I think I would not like that. :)

NO, FUCKING EA.

Just a word steam is a part of valve, steam worth 9 billion dollars so that's a bad deal

Just fucking funny :D

if EA Buys Valve and they refresh Everyones Steam Account I WOuld Go To The Goverment.....

Valve is usually pretty slow to bring out new games, but most of their games (even though they're small in number) are usually big successes.

EA... whenever I think of EA I think of Sports for some reason.

i dont think steam would sell it for anything. they make way too much money. and ea would ruin it

Oh my god. I still believe that there are mentally special people working at EA.

And someone here said EA and VALVe should work togehter. NO WAY! EA is destroying one game after another ( Dead Space, Mass Effect, prob. Plants vs. Zombies 2 aswell) Imagine if they could put their words in on Valve games... In less than a year all what Valve has created would be filled with shit DLC's, Pay2Pay shit, shit story's, shit everything.

However if Valve would buy EA amd fire all those dumbfucks, who for example try to buy Valve... then maybe.

Valve = good

EA = bad

They didn't actually send an offer to Valve. EA just estimated Valve to be worth 1 Billion, and Gabe just replied that he would not sell out. NO OFFER WAS ACTUALLY MADE.

Epic fail ....

I could've sworn I heard that EA was going under not long ago... If that's true they're getting desperate.