• @Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
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    692 months ago

    Tencent will grow to become the anti-Steam, mark my words. They already have their grubby mitts all over devs worldwide, and every single one will live to regret it (or their players, at the very least).

    • @catloaf@lemm.ee
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      412 months ago

      Not just games, movies too. And anything that gets Tencent money ends up with subtle pro-China propaganda.

      • thermal_shock
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        92 months ago

        they own WeChat too, China’s biggest chat app, also used for bill payment and government tracking.

      • @RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world
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        42 months ago

        I’m not saying there isn’t, but do you have some examples of pro china propaganda in games and movies? I heard something about the live-action mulan movie being filmed in xinyang, but besides that i haven’t personally noticed anything.

    • slazer2au
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      182 months ago

      You say that like they don’t own a sizeable chunk of Epic.

    • @CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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      32 months ago

      It’s okay. The Fediverse assured me again and again it won’t matter how much Tencent owns of your company so as long as you “don’t think about them (Tencent)”. Whatever that means.

  • @Kayana@ttrpg.network
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    402 months ago

    Not only is that headline’s grammar exceptional(ly bad), for a moment I thought the developer of Control was named Alan Wake. Like, how did they manage to butcher that so badly?

  • @notaviking@lemmy.world
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    72 months ago

    Yeah I feel there is a weird history between steam and remedy media. Like I remember when you could one day buy Alan Wake like really cheap since it was being taken off steam. Then the Epic deal making Alan Wake 2 exclusive basically meant they excluded a lot of customers immediately on steam.

  • @Floey@lemm.ee
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    32 months ago

    If they need money honestly Tencent is better than a lot of the alternatives who might be willing to invest.