Tencent - You should be aware

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starcat wrote:

Every dime you spend on Ten cent goes to this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHcTKWiZ8sI&t=33s

Thanks for the link!

The description is quite well done on some crucial points. Unfortunaly it describes some general changes in strategies of "social engineering / new management", not only a "tencent way"...

I like to view this whole situation as just another experience to learn from.

What I've learnt is to never support an indie company again.

Of course I will not be supporting some huge multi-billion $ corporation either.

If anybody thinks that buying products (ive seen MS os mentioned in threads) is supporting then all I can say is, you need to get home schooled.
Buying a product is not the same as giving money by buying voluntary supporter packs.

I never have and never will buy Microsoft supporter packs.
They don't need my money and neither does Tencent.

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plodd wrote:

I like to view this whole situation as just another experience to learn from.

What I've learnt is to never support an indie company again.

Of course I will not be supporting some huge multi-billion $ corporation either.

If anybody thinks that buying products (ive seen MS os mentioned in threads) is supporting then all I can say is, you need to get home schooled.
Buying a product is not the same as giving money by buying voluntary supporter packs.

I never have and never will buy Microsoft supporter packs.
They don't need my money and neither does Tencent.

The problem with your line of thought is that it misses the biggest part of supporting companies like GGG. Before Tencent or whoever gets to start carving up their percentage of profits, the money goes to the actual people creating and supporting the game. I am not talking about Chris or other, now rich, owners of the company. I am talking about the developers, the people who support the servers, support, etc. Those people depend on the company being profitable. If everyone stops buying packs, mtx's, etc. those guys are out of work. Tencent, Chris, etc. just move on already making their money.

Tencent and their large percentage of shares only really comes into play after the actual people I would want to support get paid for their work.

i guess everyone here pretending to care about the chinese social credit thing should stop buying electronics that are made in china and anything else made there altogether. that shiny phone? yea, it's made with slave labor. rare earth minerals mined under questionable circumstances with maximum environmental damage, electronics assembled in factories with suicide nets, waste gets dumped in the nearest river. this moral outrage is utter hypocrisy and just some feel-good internet craptivism.