Microsoft is not buying Valve & Counter-Strike for £12 billion - unsurprisingly
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A rumour that Microsoft wants to take over the PC market with a £12 billion acquisition of Valve is being ridiculed on social media.
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Well, steam isn’t even remotely DRM free. Valve is also far from flawless (allowing TF2 to be ran by hackers for literal years) and run by a multi billionaire. But sure, cyberpunk was unoptimized.

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Ok? I didn’t claim anything about Steam

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Uhh this thread is about alternatives to Steam, so…

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I was trying to say GOG isn’t comparable to Itch…

Edit: Btw I buy games from all 3, if I didn’t do business with every company I don’t trust I’d probably starve by now

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