According to PC Gamer:

"[on buying Valve] We hope to make better games, that will appeal more to our audience, and make Steam more kid-friendly, by removing social features, and limiting the ESRB for only Ec-T ratings. Also, with the purchase of Valve, we will have a better team to develop our games, such as the upcoming "Shake it Up: Interactive Dance Studio", and "Phineas and Ferb: Summertime fun". We also asked Disney whether or not they will continue creating original Valve games "Well, even though Half-Life 3 is planned for a 2014 release, we decided to scrap the game, and start it from scratch with a less violent atmosphere, and a planned ESRB rating of E10+. One of the big changes we are gonna do to upcoming Valve games is more product placement, and classic Disney characters you can interact with in game". When asked about Gabe Newell's standing in the decision, Disney CEO,Bob Iger, responded "Gabe Newell agreed to sell Valve to us if we agree to continue Valve's series Left 4 Dead, and Half Life. He wants to stay in Valve, but we are negotiating with him so he could leave, and we could put our own Jerry Smith in charge of Valve."

Full article: http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/09/22/disney-buying-valve

Gabe Newell's Official Response

Disney's Official Announcement

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wow dat is so sick man wut is going on with this world next maybe pixar buys angry birds=!!??!

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Disney owns Pixar

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Lika owns you

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OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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I dont wanna play as mickey mouse :3

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^

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LOL

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WTF NOOOOOO

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Faek

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Most likely

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only most likely? -_-

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I hope so...

12 years ago
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Interesting read. However, I hope Valve will decline this offer. I'm not ready for Mickey Life 3.

12 years ago
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Valve/Gabe would never sell. Especially to D$

However if this happens..... I'll probably be done with Steam as I can see D$ just taking all violence out of it.

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Disney owns Marvel. Have you seen less violence in Marvel?

12 years ago
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nope.avi

12 years ago
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the company that owns the Disney brand also owns a company that produces porn.
The more you know.

Also, fake post is very fake. Linking to youtube vids from a troll article just to get more "views" is kinda sad.

12 years ago
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nope, Gabe prefers to disband Valve before selling it D;

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i don't believe a word of it

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Damm ricks...

12 years ago
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WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCKING FUCK, FOR FUCKING FUCK'S SAKE?
Edit: just opened the link. OP, you won.

12 years ago
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LIES!

12 years ago
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You don't have to believe, but don't cry to me one day when you open Steam and see Mickey Mouse

12 years ago
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or sora :)

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I wouldn't actually mind having Sora in my Steam <3. What we would need is a new Kingdom Hearts -themed Steam skin, that would be freaking awesome :D

12 years ago
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Gullible...

12 years ago
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Dude, don't joke like that- some people may believe it and cut their veins on the spot or something. :P

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Yeah, I could actually believe that.

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I think if this happened there would be armys of nerds killing Disney World employees with there fantasy swords.

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Probably

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No, crowbars.

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I am looking forward to this merger and I just had a 1,000,000 calorie hamburger, Gaben's favorite.

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Great troll, lol. That was great

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Naw they trolling.. After what Gabe said about EA buying them, I really doubt he would sell to Disney, who seemingly wants to tear steam down. I think valve would be better off in EAs hands than Disney tbh.

Would end up with EA games on steam; they wouldn't take social aspects out of steam; wouldn't make everything kid friendly; probably would ruin the good valve games and dry them out, but at least it wouldn't be a complete destruction of the games (Mickey life 3 as someone said).

They are just trolling

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Why would anyone troll about something so serious?

12 years ago
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I understood it's fake at "gonna", no one says "gonna" in an official interview, come on...

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Reading comments on posts like this are funny. Really shows who actually looks at the links or not before freaking out.

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I saw people saying "fake" on a youtube video about lizardmen stealing all the world's candy once.

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Lulz. People are silly.

12 years ago
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See: The Onion videos and articles and other satire news sites.

Enjoy.

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I know what The Onion is and I know what satire is.

I'm not commenting on that, I'm commenting on the people stupid enough to believe it.

That in mind, not quite sure of the point or relevancy of you bringing that up.

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Reading comments on posts like this is funny.

So I suggested more if you were interested. ._.

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Fair enough, you just weren't very clear about that in your comment.

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Obvious fake.

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TL;DR version:

"Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit"

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TL;DR version of TL;DR version: "Bullshit"

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TL;DR version of TL;DR version of TL;DR version: "BS"

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damn you caught my atention there

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I though this was serious at first XD

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Disney Fortress 2.
Seems legit

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if they will let me blow up Donald Duck i'm game :P

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Half Life 3 - starring Mickey Mouse!

Seriously, HL3 less violent? That's bullshit.

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Closed 12 years ago by vcvc8.