S**T!!!! Google about to buy Valve!!!!

**ray_gillespie** · September 17th, 2008

Wow!!

http://www.edge-online.com/news/repo...-acquire-valve

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquir...7/google-valve

Can't wait to see what's going to happen with Steam in the future

**perris** · September 17th, 2008

google's going to buy the united states in a few years

you heard it here first

**ray_gillespie** · September 17th, 2008

Hopefully it'll then pull out of Iraq!

**epk** · September 17th, 2008

maybe iraq comes with the package

**LeeJend** · September 17th, 2008

Interesting. Right up there with Best Buy buying Napster. That's going to be interesting.

The google deal is going ot be about ad's. Expect Steam games to be inundated with banners and pop ups. The next step after what they did with Battlefield.

The step after ad's will be pay to play on all games. Too many are going that way already. $50 down and monthly payments for the rest of your life.

It's the new business model for the United States. You don't make and sell products you get people on log term maintenance contracts and bleed them dry. RE the cell phone industry from nothing in 1998 to trillions in 2008.

**Dark Atheist** · September 17th, 2008

windows pre-dates them all!

**Henyman** · September 17th, 2008

that would be cool

**ray_gillespie** · September 17th, 2008

Originally Posted by LeeJend

The google deal is going ot be about ad's. Expect Steam games to be inundated with banners and pop ups. The next step after what they did with Battlefield.

I'm not so sure about that - Google basically went from a tiny startup to a global corporation earning $4bn a year by distinctly avoiding banners and pop-ups. I'm not saying that they won't push advertising, but Google has already learned the lessons from every other search engine's failures, in that obtrusive and irrelevant ads are clearly not the way forward.

**Sazar** · September 17th, 2008

Steam is the only reason they are going after Valve it seems. Hopefully Valve will keep developing their games and continue polishing their gems like Portal 2, Episode 3 and others for release.

**chastity** · September 17th, 2008

Well there may or may not be any truth to Google looking to aquire Valve but at the moment according to Valve not happening

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/54784

**zeke_mo** · September 18th, 2008

http://kotaku.com/5051164/valve-kill...-buy+out-rumor

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ray_gillespie OSNN Veteran Addict Joined: March 2002 Location: Birmingham, UK Posts: 1,692 Reputation: 1420 Power: 155	ST!!!! Google about to buy Valve!!!!** Wow!! http://www.edge-online.com/news/repo...-acquire-valve http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquir...7/google-valve Can't wait to see what's going to happen with Steam in the future

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perris OSNN Godlike Veteran Joined: January 2002 Location: new york Posts: 12,258 Reputation: 4333 Power: 291	Re: ST!!!! Google about to buy Valve!!!! google's going to buy the united states in a few years you heard it here first IT'S NOT WHAT YOU'VE DONE IT'S WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO DO**

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ray_gillespie OSNN Veteran Addict Joined: March 2002 Location: Birmingham, UK Posts: 1,692 Reputation: 1420 Power: 155	Re: ST!!!! Google about to buy Valve!!!!** Hopefully it'll then pull out of Iraq!

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ray_gillespie OSNN Veteran Addict Joined: March 2002 Location: Birmingham, UK Posts: 1,692 Reputation: 1420 Power: 155	Re: ST!!!! Google about to buy Valve!!!! Originally Posted by LeeJend** The google deal is going ot be about ad's. Expect Steam games to be inundated with banners and pop ups. The next step after what they did with Battlefield. I'm not so sure about that - Google basically went from a tiny startup to a global corporation earning $4bn a year by distinctly avoiding banners and pop-ups. I'm not saying that they won't push advertising, but Google has already learned the lessons from every other search engine's failures, in that obtrusive and irrelevant ads are clearly not the way forward.

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chastity OSNN Veteran Addict Joined: July 2002 Location: Arizona near the Grand Canyon Posts: 2,109 Reputation: 613 Power: 147	Re: ST!!!! Google about to buy Valve!!!!** Well there may or may not be any truth to Google looking to aquire Valve but at the moment according to Valve not happening http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/54784

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