Alan Wake, Control developer agrees €15m convertible loan from Tencent

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• Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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).

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I haven’t played in a few years, have they done any of that in EvE Online?

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  • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      exactly they are already doing it.

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  • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• Kayana@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?

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  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s a perfectly normal headline composition.

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    • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That doesn’t mean it’s good.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No, it doesn’t say “Control developer Alan Wake …”

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  • Banichan@dormi.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I can tell you weren’t on newspaper staff

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    • PoopingCough@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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.

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  • thisisdee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If that’s they meant, there would have been a comma after “Control developer” I believe.

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    • p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This is not the place for commas. This calls for a slash.

      Alan Wake / Control developer agrees

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• notaviking@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • NoMoreCocaine@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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.

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    • notaviking@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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

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• iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That’s too bad.

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• Floey@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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