Tencent causes PoE to be at serious risk for it's US players, GGG what's your take on this?

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vio wrote:

how to comment on that without getting your account locked?
i mean even questioning ggg's decicions in that matter is borderline close to getting you separated you from your mtx, i learned the hard way.

for me, as a european, there can only be win i guess?

I think the best course of action is to avoid commenting at all in political threads as they do dance the lines of GGG/tencent's new ToS. I think though that it is pretty safe to say that Tencent having stock ownership of GGG isn't going to affect the game's availability due to a ban, even if it were as awful as tiktok, as the game has nowhere near the size of that audience or advertising impact.

Even if Tencent Holdings Ltd. got banned from the US it is TenCent Mobility Ltd. that bought the 80% stake in GGG and that's a completely different division and should have zero effect on PoE development.

Lots of very valuable companies sell small shares to China to be allowed access to the region. There's zero risk to video games, barring WWIII out of nowhere. There's too much money involved.

Cell phone apps are a lot more dangerous to your privacy than video games anyways. A dozen companies probably have full logs of every single text message you've sent/received on your phone over the past 5 years, and that information is going to be a lot more personal than "WTB 2ex for 157 chaos each."

If a company were to carry out censorship for a foreign entity you can be sure it will have consequences

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MasterTBC wrote:

If a company were to carry out censorship for a foreign entity you can be sure it will have consequences

Better crack out the *Tidus Laugh*

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Draegnarrr wrote:

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MasterTBC wrote:

If a company were to carry out censorship for a foreign entity you can be sure it will have consequences

Better crack out the *Tidus Laugh*

Yeah, because that definitely does not happen every single day in pretty much any industry you can name for the sake of not upsetting a certain foreign entity that shall not be named. Nope, does not happen at all.

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cpurdy777 wrote:

I think though that it is pretty safe to say that Tencent having stock ownership of GGG isn't going to affect the game's availability due to a ban, even if it were as awful as tiktok, as the game has nowhere near the size of that audience or advertising impact.

i wouldn't underestimate the financial effect that the blocking of one tencent game in america can have on other tencent games.

and if the shit hits the fan, the muricans can still play over mexican or cannadian servers and send their dollars in parcels :)

Does this mean GGG has to abandon Xolla for a more proper payment system? If so, thank you Trump!

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jack_aubrey wrote:

Does this mean GGG has to abandon Xolla for a more proper payment system? If so, thank you Trump!

Properly this yes, but not the PoE client since "our" client isn't run on in China --> Tencent have it's own servers, realm and client version in China.

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aggromagnet wrote:

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Draegnarrr wrote:

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MasterTBC wrote:

If a company were to carry out censorship for a foreign entity you can be sure it will have consequences

Better crack out the *Tidus Laugh*

Yeah, because that definitely does not happen every single day in pretty much any industry you can name for the sake of not upsetting a certain foreign entity that shall not be named. Nope, does not happen at all.

I also have never heard of that happening, totally new to me.