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FatuousTwat
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on: September 17, 2008, 06:22:01 AM

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/09/17/google-valve

Read about it on Blue's News, I guess a few other places have picked up the story, but all it is right now is rumor.

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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Reply #1 on: September 17, 2008, 06:30:48 AM

Believable.  My only concern is that Steam might enter a permanent beta. Ohhhhh, I see.

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Reply #2 on: September 17, 2008, 09:24:39 AM


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Reply #3 on: September 17, 2008, 09:26:14 AM


Nothing in this post represents the views of my current or previous employers.

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Reply #4 on: September 17, 2008, 12:48:42 PM

I am not ready to outright dismiss this.
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Reply #5 on: September 17, 2008, 12:51:09 PM

Seems logical to me.

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Reply #6 on: September 17, 2008, 01:53:59 PM

It would actually be a really smrt move.


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Reply #7 on: September 17, 2008, 03:52:54 PM

This would be a genius move by Google.  Take the very best digital distribution platform with a great reputation for customer satisfaction and slap the Google name on the fucker.

Frankly, if Google doesn't buy them I'd be astounded if Amazon didn't try to.
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Reply #8 on: September 17, 2008, 03:57:34 PM

How many time has any company, much less gaming ones, totally denied stuff of this nature only to have it be true a month later?

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Reply #9 on: September 17, 2008, 05:01:34 PM

Great, so more embedded ads but now on the Steam client?
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Reply #10 on: September 17, 2008, 06:48:11 PM

Obviously Google is still trying to obtain enough Twinkies to meet Valve's asking price.

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Reply #11 on: September 18, 2008, 02:22:25 AM

Google should buy Hellgate.

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Reply #12 on: September 18, 2008, 08:34:24 AM


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Reply #13 on: September 18, 2008, 05:16:32 PM


Google is working on Adsense for Games afterall.
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Reply #14 on: September 18, 2008, 05:27:44 PM

I can see it now, parsing your chat in Counterstrike.

Then displaying a dildo from amazon.com in the buy menu instead of the AK.
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Reply #15 on: September 18, 2008, 06:19:50 PM

I don't want to hear the Oscar Meyer Wiener song everytime a player captures the intel during a TF2 match. Unless it's a server based mp3 add on.

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