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My prediction is that Netflix will buy Valve when Gabe Newell decides he truly doesn’t care anymore.

From the article:

“… the chart indicates Steam had an operating margin of about 60 per cent and made $2bn of commission revenues, for about $1.3bn in profit just from Steam commissions in 2021.”

That’s a very impressive profit and limits who can afford to buy it. Netflix could pay something like $50 billion in stock to own the gaming market.






this pretty much will turn Steam into a subscription.

Keep paying or loose your library of "licensed" games ????

this would probably be too evil, even for today's End-game Corporate America,

so it'll probably be a mix of a subscription for any and all new games, but you can keep your old games if your account is old enough


Netflix can't buy if Gaben is not selling.



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