Doug Lombardi, the marketing VP of Valve Corporation, has stated that the company is “happy to have that conversation” in regards to talks about a buyout.
The independent developement studio is remarked as “doing pretty well” and is “really happy with what we’re doing.”
Lombardi also praised its relationship with partner Electronic Arts, stating that “it is really good” and has yet to see the fabled EA’s “boogeyman.”
“We set up the deal so that it turned out that if EA was this evil empire, that it wasn’t going to last forever.”
“But it’s turned out that all those scary stories–maybe some of them were true, and maybe some of them are history; I don’t know–haven’t appeared to us. We haven’t seen the boogeyman.”
“EA was very progressive about saying, ‘We understand who you guys are. We understand what Steam is. We don’t want Steam to go away.”
“Well, they might want Steam to go away, but they’re not asking us to make Steam go away.”
– Doug Lombardi, Valve Marketing VP
Valve has been responsible for such titles like Half Life, Counter-Strike, Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead, and Portal as well as the Steam digitial distribution platform which has created a community of PC gamers worldwide.
