Comment on Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok

morrowind@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yeah. You might want to look into some other foreign owned companies as well. Tencent owns a metric shit ton of “American” companies for instance, I bet there’s several on that list that would surprise you.

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  • morrowind@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Tencent I’m aware of, there was quite a bit of controversy about them a few years back

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    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Tencent happen to own large portions of nearly every video game company on the planet to start with, and a ton of other large companies, 600+ of them in fact. Large enough positions to directly affect board decisions if they wanted to. And that assumes overt sudden changes and not more subtle things.

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      • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        IIRC the reason for this is that China requires that games published there be published by entities that are at least some arbitrary percentage Chinese owned. So basically if you want access to that huge market - that loves video games - you have to cut a deal with Tencent or someone else like them.

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  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I recall that tencent had like a small stake in Reddit too. Like 10% or something like that. Or am I remembering wrong?

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    • shawn1122@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      As of their last filing in September it is 10 to 12%

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    • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      They invested money, I don’t remember hearing that it got them any share of the company.

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      • ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        That’s typically what you get in return for an investment. The only question is if it’s enough of a share to give control or at least influence.

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  • franklin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    dear God, please let League of Legends get banned, it would be so funny

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• iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s not made by Bytedance. It’s made by one company and published by a second, different company who is owned by Bytedance.

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• Zugyuk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Not made by, the studio is “second dinner” the same guys that made hearthstone, but in their own studio.

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