Tencent has Invested in Grinding Gear Games

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Noctiurnal wrote:

Personally I'am a little scared that this will make game pay to win (Spatial backpack which doubles your inventory space), or worse shitty MTX gambling machine (Only this week buy this special Oreo mystery box for a 0,01% chance to get Oreo summon raging spirit, 0,01% chance to get Oreo portal effect and 99,98% chance to get Oreo brick hideout decoration). A quick google search on Tencent reveals some shady things, but I guess that is each on their own to decide. On the other side I glad that GGG now has money to make some really cool stuff (like celestial trap effect, that works like Gloom herald. Wink* wink* DO IT GGG make my memes come true) and hopefully make MTX more affordable, or just making some skills usable (looking at you magma orb). I really looking forward to future leagues and mostly 4.0 release. Time will tell if this decision was good.

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WithLoveEarL wrote:

And the thing is, Pay-to-Win is not my biggest concern. I am sure you would have to be an absolute moron to destroy the game like that, so I don't think it will happen.

Instead, we will start seeing for-profit mentality of a corporation sink its teeth into PoE values because it is now their duty to make money for Tencent, so no more off-years, no more huge investment of time into developing new content, less customer support and improvements etc.

In addition, I expect banal, popular, mainstream ideas, themes and storylines to start coming through in the upcoming years.

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tsHavok wrote:

Conflicted. GGG deserved every penny I spent as they were a beacon of indie dev I wanted to see continue to flourish. Buying another 'supporter pack' would feel dirty at this point.

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grimlock9999 wrote:

I have a lot of thoughts around this announcement, so wanted to write them down to organise them:

1) 11 years of awesomeness deserves thanks. Thank you so much, you GGG champions.

2) Path of exile is currently the best game in existence. We know it, why wouldn't investors know it?

3) If GGG makes a lot of money, they have set the blueprint for dozens of similar games to follow suit. As a fan, I like this possibility. If you believe in market forces, you might see this as insurance that the game stays good, where currently there is not much competition.

3) 20 million sign ups and 2 million active users is a drop in the bucket of where digital entertainment is headed. The trend is that gaming and digital goods have outperformed movie and T.V studios (in gross value of the global market) for many years. Games are getting better, so people are choosing to spend more time on them. Almost all projections show the job market shrinking and leisure time, plus lifespan increasing. A game like path of exile could become the equivalent of an English Premier League (the soccer/football franchise supported across the world).

When I think of a future like this, I don't think about the money or the parent company. I think about a grandparent playing this game with their grandkids. Of schools using this game to to make learning fun, as happens regularly with minecraft. Of funny youtubers who currently have 15K viewers having 1.5 million viewers and becoming stars. Of POE tournaments held in stadiums, like League of legends currently is. Or Virtual Reality technology combining with games like this in a new form of exercise. I guess a 520 billion U.S.D. company is necessary for scenarios like this to be viable.

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vacii wrote:

Dude are you for real? IT's AN 11 year old engine... do you have any idea how ENGINES are developed and implemented, you cant just replace it with a better one, you need to build an entirely new one from the ground up, including the systems around it, that costs "new game money". GGG are not a software company that develops game engines, it's a company that develop's games using a proprietary engine. You want newer shiny engine? 80$ a month wont cut it, it costs at least 100K$ per month. GGG spends at least 0.5 mil just for salaries you [Removed by Support].