I found this to either be an interesting point of view, or someone trolling on a summer day:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2010048
Valve is amazing but it’s too small, Valve needs a big boss to get its back while competing with other powerful game publishers like EA or Microsoft.
And it should be Google, because
1) Google is all about the internet which Steam shares;
2) Digital distribution of PC games is a remarkably potential market, and to my knowledge, Google has not started video game department, while it’s not sufficiently developed if it has. Owning Valve will bring them more and more money and break into the gaming industry with a great hit;
3) GFWL is a great platform which came up before Steam but still not fully developed, BUT we have to admit that GFWL is still very potential because it’s the only existing one which fully realizes the concept of cross-platforms. It’s powered by Microsoft and against Steam, Google is somehow against Microsoft in every field, so Google should get Valve’s back;
4) Since EA is expanding and threatening Valve, Valve needs its own firmly connected partners, relationship like Activision and Blizzard(also 2K and Rockstar) which are owned by one big group. This kind of relationship can not be accomplished by Valve itself for the time being.
Maybe it sounds ridiculous, Valve has been growing in amazing rate last few years and also I don’t think Steam would go down in years but I do think Valve is still not big or complex enough to sufficiently flourish in the future and Valve does need more support.
I agree with this in reverse. I think Valve should buy google. I seriously think it would do better.