Valve Accidentally Sell THQ in Steam Sale Blunder

[dunnace]

http://pixelgrater.com/2012/07/23/valve-accidentally-sell-thq-in-steam-sale-blunder/

Well we all make mistakes...

 

[AwkwardTurtle]

That kind of had me going for a second there.

I mean the screen shot looks pretty ridiculous, but the hilarious side of me wanted this so badly to be an actual thing. That was a pretty good laugh though.

I kind of wish it was...

 

[OpticalJunction]

"Our $37m value was discounted at 99.9999%, taking the price of the entire company down to $37. Though mind you that?s more than we?d have got for it a couple of months ago.?

lmao !

 

[Rawne1980]

?I mean, who wouldn?t want to run a company in charge of such great titles as?um??.

That tickled me.

 

[Nouw]

Aaah hilarious. I'm sure there were more mistakes, let's keep 'em coming!

 

[MammothBlade]

Congrats, you just got fooled by Pixelgrater, The Onion of Gaming News.

http://pixelgrater.com/2012/07/20/valve-announces-highly-anticipated-sequel/

In an utterly unexpected turn of events, Valve has surprised everyone by throwing up an advert on Steam finally announcing a game for a franchise that has been away for far too long. ?We?re very excited to finally announce that Guitar Hero 7 will be making its way to consoles this fall,? read the announcement, much to the confusion of almost every gamer. In a hastily put together interview, Gabe Newell explained that ?Activision approached us with a unique, although somewhat baffling business opportunity to announce their game for them. We?re not sure why, you should probably ask them to be honest.? So we did.

In a separate interview that I had to run across town to get to and ruined my new shoes in the process, Bobby Kotick explained the company?s reasoning. ?It works like this, if we announce a new Guitar Hero game, nobody cares, it?s expected and a little underwhelming. But, we did some market research and discovered that the headline ?Valve Announces Highly Anticipated Sequel? is the single most likely thing to be clicked on on the internet. So we drew up some contracts, negotiated a deal, shut down a development studio; that?s not related to the deal it was just that it was Thursday so that?s what we do. Anyway, we called Valve and they agreed.? When asked if he?s worried about negative backlash from the decision Mr Kotick said ?Wait, you think we have any positive PR left? Really? I just shut down another studio during this interview, no no no, negative backlash is not a concern at all.?

Yeah...

 

[evilneko]

we did some market research and discovered that the headline ?Valve Announces Highly Anticipated Sequel? is the single most likely thing to be clicked on on the internet.

Quoted: a most hilarious line.

BRILLIANT!

 

[dunnace]

MammothBlade, you have no idea how happy you've made me by calling us that. I want to hug you.

 

[V8 Ninja]

Thank you, Dunnace. You have given me a new site to bookmark.

 

[hensethe1]

Lmao this one was great

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Aaah hilarious. I'm sure there were more mistakes, let's keep 'em coming!

hah one time the train simulator said -160% off on my steam store...would've bought it in a heartbeat but it screwed up everytime you tried to actually go to the purchase screen :/

still, had a screenshot of the damn thing somewhere, if i'm feeling not lazy later i should be able to find it..

(still, the one game that costs over a thousand dollars including all the DLC, was 160% off...had to laugh out loud at that one when i saw it)

OT: funny stuff, can't imagine what i'd do if i actually saw that on my screen lol