If they need money honestly Tencent is better than a lot of the alternatives who might be willing to invest.
Alan Wake, Control developer agrees €15m convertible loan from Tencent
Submitted 1 day ago by simple@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world
https://www.eurogamer.net/alan-wake-control-developer-agrees-15m-convertible-loan-from-tencent
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Floey@lemm.ee 5 hours ago
Kayana@ttrpg.network 1 day 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?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No, it doesn’t say “Control developer Alan Wake …”
Banichan@dormi.zone 1 day ago
I can tell you weren’t on newspaper staff
PoopingCough@lemmy.world 1 day 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 If your headline is confusing because of traditions based on outdated limitations it’s not a good headline imo.
thisisdee@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If that’s they meant, there would have been a comma after “Control developer” I believe.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
This is not the place for commas. This calls for a slash.
Alan Wake / Control developer agrees
notaviking@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
NoMoreCocaine@lemmynsfw.com 12 hours 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.
notaviking@lemmy.world 10 hours 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
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
That’s too bad.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 1 day 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).
catloaf@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Not just games, movies too. And anything that gets Tencent money ends up with subtle pro-China propaganda.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 day ago
they own WeChat too, China’s biggest chat app, also used for bill payment and government tracking.
RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I haven’t played in a few years, have they done any of that in EvE Online?
slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You say that like they don’t own a sizeable chunk of Epic.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
exactly they are already doing it.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 20 hours 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.