Tencent has Invested in Grinding Gear Games

So, whats the next game your working on then? Interest peeked.

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nerdstomperx wrote:

this game is p2w already anyway with the big stash upgrades so why cry so much?

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shadowknoll wrote:

So, whats the next game your working on then? Interest peeked.

Leisure suit Larry irl in the Carribean world enjoying life is my bet.
It's a matter of when they're allowed to leave before it happens.

And to that silly guy that think we're all kids, I'm 56 years old. ;)

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Willizord wrote:

I really hope that with the money Tencent's gonna be investing, you guys can afford to put more work into improving the game's performance. As it is if you don't have the game installed on an SSD, then the loading screens take forever and town instances are a nightmare lagfest of half-rendered MTX effects. I would be totally fine with seeing less new content for awhile if it meant the existing content became more stable.

They bought shares they did not invest in ggg those are 2 completely sepperate things.
Now they might invest in ggg but nothing has realy been said about that.

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kula02 wrote:

I'm a chinese player.
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Tencent is a shameless GAME company.Actually,Tencent has a very strong capital that makes it enough to invest in all the game company,even EA or Blizzard.But,almost all the money is dirty.The core spirit of Tencent is "wei chuang xin",it means they just copy the core game mode from successful game company,like Nintendo, or frames of famous games,and then change the colour of characters'skin or add some new mod.A new Tencent game borns.

No creativity,just copy.All these plagiarist behaviour is legal in China,

I can understand the decision of GGG, because no one can resist the temptation of money.But I can't agree with GGG.I m afraid the affection from Tencent will ruin the game.It's really pathetic.

Congratulation,you will get abundant amount of money,finally.

This. 100% this. It's pretty much the worst company to pick for buying up 80% of your company as a game developer/publisher.

For example, if GGG had Blizzard buy 80% and had the same "independent" promise, I'd still be miffed about GGG no longer being an indie, but I wouldn't feel dirty buying supporter packs in the future. With Tencent, that changes everything. I'm not contributing to a Chinese company like Tencent. Never. You screwed up GGG. Probably a great cash flow for you individually and as a company, but at the cost of tarnishing your name, destroying your business model, and alienating who knows how much of your player base (but by all of the negativity, it's at least a good chunk).

GGG, good luck with all of the new Chinese players and naive International players this will bring to PoE, along with additional staff to speed up/improve development. But you just shot your own identity to hell.

im not familiar with the whole shareholder stuff. does it actually mean if i spend 100 bucks on packs, GGG just sees 20$ off it? so the majority of my support goes to a global annonymous company not related at all to the playerbase? is that really the case?
if so, it seems like a terrible idea to sell this much of the company (aside from a onetime big cashgrab). it completely alienates GGG from the playerbase and its a waste to buy packs IMO

Hmmmm

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Nikkaj wrote:

im not familiar with the whole shareholder stuff. does it actually mean if i spend 100 bucks on packs, GGG just sees 20$ off it? so the majority of my support goes to a global annonymous company not related at all to the playerbase? is that really the case?
if so, it seems like a terrible idea to sell this much of the company (aside from a onetime big cashgrab). it completely alienates GGG from the playerbase and its a waste to buy packs IMO

Yeah it's about 80/20 - visually would look something like:

so much hate. yet i believe they know what they are doing and did extensive research before they signed off. and i believe they are more informed what was in the contract (if any was formed) and they will stay with us for at least few more leagues.

this might bring cash for new engine and things. it like you take the apple from the tree yet even tho it is still ripe you decide its rotten/flawed.

ALSO POE IS P2W :D coz you can buy stash tabs. best joke you can read on the forums in a "single/multi player instance game)

you guys are just over-reacting to something you can really affect. maybe it seems like a bad choice (like bestiary league) but this is not something they had to rush for sure.

and if they mess up this game at least you can go and enjoy some quality RL

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cgexile wrote:

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Nikkaj wrote:

im not familiar with the whole shareholder stuff. does it actually mean if i spend 100 bucks on packs, GGG just sees 20$ off it? so the majority of my support goes to a global annonymous company not related at all to the playerbase? is that really the case?
if so, it seems like a terrible idea to sell this much of the company (aside from a onetime big cashgrab). it completely alienates GGG from the playerbase and its a waste to buy packs IMO

Yeah it's about 80/20 - visually would look something like:

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