though i laugh about it, it is rly worrisome
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Oh greatâŚthey have Digital Extreme now. Epic wouldnât be so bad if they werenât selling information to Chinese businesses and whatnot.
also great topic name 
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wait, i thought MS owned that? 
ooohh my bad, i thought they scooped up âeverythingâ as in gears ip included 
and i thought Warframe devs was acquired by tencent long ago too @_@
oh well, surely nothing bad can come of this, itâs just video games companies after all 
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Well makes sense that they would grab Warframe with how popular it is. Iâm more shocked it took them so long to do it. Tencent owns 80% of Path of Exile with the other 20% to be sold off in 5 years from the original acquisition date.
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makes you wonder why Tencent donât just âbuy everythingâ and get it over with 
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Well fuck thatâs really bad news, I love Klei.
âAs part of this agreement, Klei retains full autonomy of creative and operations across all aspects of the studio, including projects, talent, and more.â
Yeah thatâs what everyone says every time but we all know thatâs absolutely meaningless and no matter what your deal was once someone else has majority control they can alter the deal. Blizzard is going to be entirely autonomous and make all their own decisions, no need for anyone to worry about Activisionâs acquisition. Now long dead studio is going to be entirely free to operate as they see fit after their EA purchase and everything will be just great!
I have also first hand seen companies heavily impacted by Chinese feelings on their autonomy and creative freedom already. This is no tinfoil hattery, it happens. Some times overtly with big online harassment campaigns some times covertly by the company suddenly feeling like their art assets really need an update where they remove all religious symbology, blood splatter, any reference to ghosts or spirits and covering up any cleavage or thighs previously shown. Yeah, no they just didnât LIKE their old art anymore, sure!
Oh and donât you even dare put a tiny little easter egg in your game that likens Chairman Mao to Winnie the poo because it apparently wont matter that youâre in no way affiliated with China or any Chinese companies. Theyâll bury you alive and even years later GOG will for some reason âlistenâ to all us âgamersâ who apparently really donât want them to sell that one particular game, ever.
Yeah no⌠fuck this.
RIP Klei.
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yup, that one is, regardless of Tencent specific âissuesâ, always the main cause for concern if/where a âbelovedâ XYZ game/dev gets swallowed up, no matter the good intentioned reasonings (i get it, financial instability is not fun in the dev business) - and the past track record/examples are just too vast to be potentially cheerful about something applying âthe exception to the ruleâ.
You donât become part of an âacquisitionâ out of the good will and nature of a capitalistic monolith; in the end they will always want a return on investment, and will put the screws to it to see to that it happens
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Tencent has changed their Riot games TOS to grant themselves the rights to record and keep userâs voice chat in all Riot games. Under the guise of fighting toxic behavior they will supposedly save recordings if a report is made, however of course everything will have to be perpetually recorded in order for anyone to be able to find something after a report has been made. A point this video didnât go into, but heâs providing many other details.
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Iâve never played LoL and I donât know itâs community, but - it being an online game - Iâm guessing that the most the Chinese will be able to gather from those recordings, is the multitude of ways in which the players had sexual relations with their mothers.
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Seems like par for the course to me. Of course the government funded game company will do this.
Recording everything but saying they will only listen to some of it. Shipping all the data to Chinese servers so nobody can delete it.
Itâs nothing to worry about while under their radar. But once youâre targeted, they search their backlog of everything related to you. Itâs normally to keep overseas Chinese in check. But I suppose that it can also be used to blackmail other people if they say something bad while playing Valorant.
I would be much more concerned if they were still recording even while the game is not running. 
I only played a little LoL then quit and never played Valorant. So Iâm not really involved with Tencent.
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Eeeeeeeew.
I wonder if you will get banned for pro Hong Kong usernames and chats.
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Or Taiwan for that matter.
Past few months China has been fcking up our business and stuff because my country âdaredâ to call Taiwan by itâs actual name lol.
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Sad news. I liked Klei. Now I donât. Or rather, I wonât if they agreed to an all Epic Games deal. Then Iâll dislike them.
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My god this is becoming very worrisome tbh. One day the CCP will just get its hand on everything. And i donât want that to happen at allâŚ
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