Tencent has Invested in Grinding Gear Games

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Sabranic_SilverDeth wrote:

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deMoxE wrote:

What laws, well maybe start with logic first just because you own 80% of a boat, doesn't mean you can sink it. You can't damage the 20% that you don't own. As far as I know it's illegal and most likely criminal in pretty much any state.

This is not how the real life investment world works... at all...

Tencent will not set out to sink "the boat (TM)."

Their initial rounds of meddling will cause a small dip in returns. This will justify more changes dictated by them, (which they will consider a prudent step in protecting PoE's value as an IP). Each instance of this "fiddling" escalates the negative preference cascade, which will, in Tencent's eyes, necessitate an even more hands-on approach to PoE's development.

This will simply exacerbate the flight of investment further. At some point down the road, it becomes "not worth the costs" and Path of Exile will be mercilessly shutdown without a second thought.

Tencent will blame all of this on GGG's management, not their own interference. It will ALL be done in the name of securing a RoI and I assure you, every bit of it is 100% legal.

I have seen this too many times to count properly, and it makes me wince every time a developer thinks they can maintain their sovereignty once they are bought out. Chris Wilson is not intentionally lying to us.

He's lying to himself.