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[LordOfLore]

It is getting hard to get the hold of all Tencent's investments even outside of China:

• Riot Games
• 50% Epic Games
• 25% Acti-Blizzard
• Supercell
• 9% Pocket Gems
• 9% Frontier
• ?% Bluehole
• ?% DayZ creator new studio
• There is more but smaller

This method of investing into multiple competing companies looks like a game studio Vanguard. Chinese companies have also taken over Warframe and Runescape.

Meanwhile at Valve:

I'm surprised they haven't tried to go after the mobile market in Japan by buying a part of Square Enix.

 

[Visualante2]

Meh, neither. Doesn't really matter to the players who the investors are. I guess indirectly you could say it's a good thing because it means the developers are making money and will hopefully keep improving the game?

I disagree. I look at Fortnite and worry that monetisation will get even more aggressive than it currently is.

 

[Sad Affleck]

I had no idea Tencent was this big. Wow.

 

[Spirited]

That's a scary graph. Tencent is going for a land grab!

The orange border of the picture is actually part of the graph as Tencent in 2 years.

 

[LonelyGreyWolf]

I'm surprised they haven't tried to go after the mobile market in Japan by buying a part of Square Enix.

Well, they invested in Aiming Inc., which is a pretty big mobile gaming company in Japan.

 

[Visualante2]

Well, they invested in Aiming Inc., which is a pretty big mobile gaming company in Japan.

I read on GAF that foreign takeovers are a complicated and difficult process in Japan. Not sure if there's any truth to that.

 

[dracula_x]

I had no idea Tencent was this big. Wow.

which is bad news, actually. Tecent is pretty awful company. There's an article about that in EDGE #309.

in addition – https://venturebeat.com/2017/05/18/how-tencents-wegame-is-changing-to-compete-with-steam-in-china/

 

[LonelyGreyWolf]

which is bad news, actually. Tecent is pretty awful company. There's an article about that in EDGE #309.

in addition – https://venturebeat.com/2017/05/18/how-tencents-wegame-is-changing-to-compete-with-steam-in-china/

Just read the link you posted, and tbh, while it sounds really bad, it's just business as usual for a Chinese company. Aggressive business strategies, buying smaller companies or instead just copying them is just common business.

 

[Lucumo]

What has PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds/Bluehole to do with esports?

 

[Usobuko]

which is bad news, actually. Tecent is pretty awful company. There's an article about that in EDGE #309.

in addition – https://venturebeat.com/2017/05/18/how-tencents-wegame-is-changing-to-compete-with-steam-in-china/

Exclusive games aside, tecent is absolutely right in straight up buying western studios.

Why would they waste money making western style games?

 

[sixteen-bit]

How big is Tencent?

way more than ten cents

 

[RoboPlato]

Figured Tencent or Nexon would jump on this one soon. Good fit for them and makes sure that the Bluehole has the resources necessary to support it.

 

[nephilimdj]

Smart move honestly, get 10s of millions from tencent, then generate 10s a millions a year from them marketing/owning it in China.
Only real losers are any current Chinese plyers, who most likely will be geolocked in coming months.