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?
Alan Wake, Control developer agrees €15m convertible loan from Tencent
Submitted 7 months 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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Kayana@ttrpg.network 7 months ago
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
No, it doesn’t say “Control developer Alan Wake …”
Banichan@dormi.zone 7 months ago
I can tell you weren’t on newspaper staff
PoopingCough@lemmy.world 7 months 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 If your headline is confusing because of traditions based on outdated limitations it’s not a good headline imo.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 7 months ago
If that’s they meant, there would have been a comma after “Control developer” I believe.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
This is not the place for commas. This calls for a slash.
Alan Wake / Control developer agrees
notaviking@lemmy.world 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months ago
That’s too bad.
Floey@lemm.ee 7 months ago
If they need money honestly Tencent is better than a lot of the alternatives who might be willing to invest.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 7 months 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 7 months ago
Not just games, movies too. And anything that gets Tencent money ends up with subtle pro-China propaganda.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 7 months ago
they own WeChat too, China’s biggest chat app, also used for bill payment and government tracking.
RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world 7 months 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 7 months ago
I haven’t played in a few years, have they done any of that in EvE Online?
slazer2au@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You say that like they don’t own a sizeable chunk of Epic.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 7 months ago
exactly they are already doing it.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 7 months 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.