Valve are a huge privately owned company dominantly on the PC . They were founded in 1996 by billionaire Gabe Newell.
They are known for their extremely popular games such as Dota 2, the Left 4 Dead series and the Portal series. Valve has 2 main competitors, one in terms of business and the other in terms of a particular game. Their biggest business competitor would be EA due to Valve and EA both having a game distribution client. Valve own Steam and EA own Origin. However Origin only sells games that EA publish themselves meaning that the variety of there games on the service are limited, whereas Valve has a huge amount of games on the service ranging from Indie titles to big AAA titles. The other company Valve compete with are Riot Games. Valve have created the extremely popular MOBA game Dota 2, this competes with the even more popular MOBA game League of Legends which is developed by Riot Games. |