Tencent has Invested in Grinding Gear Games

of course this is a great business decision - GGG hit the bullseye and will be very very wealthy for all their hard work.

flip side - it's china, and their phrasing of this thread title is already showing signs of damage control. thread should outright say "...bought majority stake" or something to that extent. tencent now OWNS GGG/PoE and GGG beat around that bush with this post.

this game got boring for myself a while ago, but it's one more reason to not play IMO. i most definitely would NOT purchase another supporter pack from this point on.

On business standpoint yeah sure it might be a logical and sound move. But Tencent?

Nope.

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xX999Xx wrote:

Seems like all Free to Players are like: Hey everything is fine. Chris we luv u and game will be superduper.

All Maximum Pack supporters are like: Wait woot? For sure Tencent will have the last word in decision making.


Most of the discussions in here are like: Some 1000$ Supporters say they stop supporting the game. Some randome no Pack/1 Pack supporters tell them, GGG will fail because the die hard supporters stop supporting them.

Hilarious :D

So I feel like this is partially addressed at me and just wanted to clarify.

I dont think that the "big pack Investors" leaving will fail, I actually think it will just evolve likely into a pay to play game- which I am fine with.

Its like nearly every single start up ever. They start of with a small loyal group of investors who they charge very little to, slowly gain investment and expand their product/service and then sell it off to a bigger company who can help carry it to the next level.

I think that a lot of people feel like buying supporter pack was a donation you gave to a nonprofit. GGG isnt a non profit, and I cant begin to know your motivation but you essentially paid them for a service and a product. If you no longer think they deserve pay for their work, thats your call but they are a business and will do whats right for their development. If you have an ethical issue, I get it and vote with your wallet. If you are making assumptions that this game is suddenly immediately worse, you need to take a deep breath and wait and see. Most of the time these things are win/win for most of the groups involved.

rei

I thought Bestiality was bad! And now this!

Mmm, Tencent, I reckon I'm outta here. Not happy about Chinese input. Or the data harvesting to follow.

Of course, a nice little windfall, well deserved, for the developers.

But afaiac:

'Bye GGG, it was nice... for a while...

not that GGG gave any reason to worry until now. but still - don't really like the idea. hope that doesn't mean game over. like the transparency. what will happen with poe, though, can only be revealed through time.

Im not too sure about this. Ive been happy to support you to this day because I felt my money was helping a small company grow and make good tontent. I not want give money to a big dirty chinese company in the future

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MirageDelivers wrote:

It blows my mind how little business sense most of the forum posters have. Tencent is the majority owner in some of the most popular games in the world. All of which offer MTX for cosmetics and user enjoyment and none of which are required to be competitive except for maybe clash of clans. These games are thriving and have been thriving for years. Tencent knows that P2W models drive players away, which in turn loses them profit. If PoE fails or becomes P2W it will be because the devs didn’t do enough to keep players interested and the lack of players led Tencent to do what any investment company would do...suck the last few dollars out of the game and shit it down. The game is healthy and fun, you all need to relax, it’s not going to go pay2win. The only change I could see coming would be some type of league pass that grants good cosmetics based on completion (similar to fortnite battle pass). Let’s refrain from hitting the panic button just yet.

Don’t expect to get rational responses. All you will get presenting logic like this is negative Nancy’s yelling “the sky is falling”. Usually these people are miserable in their lives and just like to complain. Misery loves company

I will never buy a single supporter pack anymore.
Why?
Because the business model was working for a independent company.
Now you sold it.

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Xeian wrote:

I will never buy a single supporter pack anymore.

Who Fucking Cares!!!!!!!

Would the style of POE/GGG change in few years?
Money is everything.