Gabe Newell Is Considering Moving Valve To New Zealand

Gabe Newell interviewed with Xbox's Phil Spencer and journalist Geoff Keighley. The interview's contents are subject to an NDA, but Valve News Network's Tyler McVicker has released some snippets of information from the interview with an agreement of the parties involved.

[Christopher]

He's been "stuck" there during COVID-19 and loved it. He even got together with a few other people to throw a "thank you" concert for New Zealanders.

[ApocalypseShadow]

It looks like a nice place on TV and in pictures. Lots of green. Lots of water. Seems more laid back. First introduction to it was interviews of actors from Hercules and Zena.

And the way things are at the moment here in the US, I wouldn't be surprised that he is considering staying until we get our act together. It shouldn't be the way it is in more ways than one.

[Kiwi66]

I'm from the South Island of New Zealand and its not a bad place to live.
From where I live the beaches are only about a 20 minute drive and the mountains are a few hours away.

[RedDevils]

My image of NZ is mostly Volcano and earthquake.

[BlackIceJoe]

If this happens I can see it only being a good thing for the New Zealand video game market.

I could even see some new video game studios pop up, so I say go for it, because at the end of the day this will lead to more video games being made and I'm all for that.

[Michiel1989]

Its really just a formality and has to do with taxes etc, not with making games or anything. No new studios willl pop up because of it.

[Bobertt]

Gabe said those reports are wrong he isn't moving Valve to New Zealand but he has applied for a visa in New Zealand.

[Michiel1989]

@bob that makes more sense yeah.

[DiRtY]

The bigger thing to look out for is:

Why was there an Interview with Gabe Newell and Phil Spencer, which is still under NDA...

[Mr_cheese]

My thoughts exactly

[Fluke_Skywalker]

That is definitely a good question.

[Ausbo]

There’s obviously a partnership of some sort, so it should be interesting to see at what level it is.

[Wikkid666]

My money is Game Pass going to Steam.

[Gr1mmyshadows]

Or steam coming to xbox

[porkChop]

Could maybe be part of The Game Awards?

[SickSinceSix]

He could at least let us buy Valve Indexes here, still says not available in your country on Steam.

[Binarycode]

Do us all a solid gabe. Sell the Halflife I.P so the people that want a new game can have one. cheers

[Fist4achin]

Seriously. Valve had such excellent games, HL, Portal, L4D,... Where are they at? Steam takes in so much money that they don't give a shit about those games. Sell off the gaming division already and continue to roll in your profits from Steam.

[FlyingFoxy]

Well they released a junk update to L4D2 which wasn't even Valve made because it was a community effort, they managed to make the game worse than it was before and it required an update for years.

[Battlestar23]

Do you think the rumors of MS buying Valve are true?

[Ausbo]

Doubt it. Valve is a much more valuable company than Bethesda, who they just paid 7.5 billion for.
Valve would fetch well over 10 billion. So while Microsoft can afford it, I highly doubt they’d make two purchases of that size back to back.

[Sunny_D]

Also Valve aren't doing as bad as Bethesda.

[NeoGamer232]

Their purchase of Linked in was over $20 bln dollars.

If they want Valve they would be willing and can afford Valve.

[ZeroBlue2]

Yeah, Bethesda was a sinking ship, there's no way they'd pony over the money for vavle, and I don't think valve is for sale.

[PintoA12]

Considering Xbox NZ twitter account just twitted this:

https://twitter.com/XboxANZ...

I'd say something certainly happening.

[Pricey]

Yeh the latitude and longitude kind of give it way. Also explains allot of recent comments from Gabe himself about Xbox Series X.

[warriorcase]

No. Probably just a partnership of some sort and collaboration projects together planned. The HP Reverb G2 Virtual Reality Headset coming out this year was made in a join effort between HP, Microsoft and Valve for example.

[Nodoze]

Considering they are based on Washington, can't say I blame him. Ridiculously high taxes. Awful weather (most people suffer seasonal disorders due to the non stop gloom). I say go for it, or better yet consider relocating to a red state.

[Darkborn]

Sounds cool, but everyone forgets about the employees. Not everyone is going to drop everything and just move to new Zealand.