Valve Talks About Possibility of Game Pass-like Subscription Service

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Valve is a major player in the gaming industry, with its Steam platform favored by many gamers. While many large game companies have offered game subscription services to customers, Valve has yet to make moves in this space. Since the release of the Steam Deck this week, there have been renewed questions about whether Valve will create a subscription service to complement the gaming handheld. Now, the company has quashed rumors that it plans on releasing its own game subscription service for Steam.

Valve CEO Gabe Newell was pushed on the issue of gaming subscription services in an interview with PC Gamer’s Wes Fenlon, asked whether Valve had any plans to build its own subscription service into Steam. Newell denied this was the case, stating that he didn’t believe it was something the company needed to do itself. However, he had more promising thoughts about the Xbox Game Pass.

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Last April, there were rumors about Valve putting the Xbox Game Pass on Steam. Newell hasn’t discounted the possibility of bringing Microsoft’s Game Pass to Steam, describing the subscription service as a “popular option” for gamers, and stating that Valve would be “more than happy” to work with Microsoft to bring Game Pass games to the Steam platform.

«I don't think it's something that we think we need to do ourselves, building a subscription service at this time,» Newell said. «But for their customers it's clearly a popular option, and we'd be more than happy to work with them to get that on Steam.»

Microsoft has seen success with its Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass subscription services, which give gamers access to a huge catalog of games for a monthly payment, with different subscription