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).
this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2024
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Not just games, movies too. And anything that gets Tencent money ends up with subtle pro-China propaganda.
they own WeChat too, China's biggest chat app, also used for bill payment and government tracking.
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.
It's more about the scripts being given a passover of approval from the CCP. Want your movie in China? Usually, there's some adaptation for the region, no big deal. However, I remember articles coming out about how the movie adaptation may not be accepted if the U.S. version doesn't fit the standard, meaning the U.S. version would have changes made at the suggestion of the CCP.
Oh thankyou! Yeah that does make sense. That is pretty messed up.
I haven't played in a few years, have they done any of that in EvE Online?
You say that like they don't own a sizeable chunk of Epic.
exactly they are already doing it.
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.
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?
No, it doesn't say "Control developer Alan Wake ..."
If that’s what they meant, there would have been a comma after “Control developer” I believe.
This is not the place for commas. This calls for a slash.
Alan Wake / Control developer agrees
That's a perfectly normal headline composition.
That doesn't mean it's good.
Sure, but "good" is subjective. I had no confusion from the headline and like that it was direct and to the point.
I can tell you weren't on newspaper staff
News headlines aren't limited by space on physical paper anymore. If your headline is confusing because of traditions based on outdated limitations it's not a good headline imo.
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.
I know a guy who's been working there for well over a decade, I wonder if he's got any insights on this weird behavior they've been doing. He's got no power over financial decisions, so it's not likely he's got any details.
I understand that Epic funded their project to be an Epic exclusive, but was that a financially sound decision excluding the major market place. Could they not have worked in like a two year or three year exclusive period
and who exactly have they excluded? aside from the steam deck users every steam user can easily use epic game store
Me? Granted I get all their games for free (thanks dude!), but I definitely won't use Epic store. Would have gotten it for free if I used it, though.
People who don't want to use the epic store. That was me. I just don't want another launcher, another account. I'll get around to it at some point I'm sure but I didn't buy AW2 and probably would have if it wasn't an exclusive.
That's too bad.
If they need money honestly Tencent is better than a lot of the alternatives who might be willing to invest.