If Tencent does succeed with this buyout, I would bet a year's salary that several things will happen. First, the first three or four games they put out are actually going to be pretty damn good. They'll make absolutely sure that their first impression is that they really are a good alternative. They'll also make sure the protagonists are straight white males, they'll make the female characters hot and sexy again. They'll remove the queers and faggots. And they'll actually spend time and money on quality control and bug fixes. They'll do this for the first entry in all of the old franchises to demonstrate their goodwill. But you'll notice, if you're actually paying attention, that they'll never make communism be the bad guys again. There'll be Chinese side characters, never quite taking the spotlight at first, but always in the role of an intelligent honorable good guy. Big business, which we have several legitimate reasons to hate, will always seem to have their hand in being the villains.
That's... something. Genshin Impact being a successful game probably shows that there are devs who know how to make and market a game, as sad as it is that those people will also be the followers of one of biggest shitholes on the planet.
It would doubly suck if Tencent got a monopoly over the AAA industry this way. Really, I can't think of any company in existence whom a monopoly wouldn't suck, but Tencent would be one of the worst, or even the worst, because of how easy they can sway consumers.
Watch. It'll happen, and 95% of people including anti wokists on the Right will fall for it.
I can certainly see that happening. What hasn't helped is that there are anti wokists who are openly pro-china like Vox Day (Who I also heard is anti free speech). That being said, I don't know if the hypothetical Assassin's Creed Jade Dynasty or whatever will be enough of an improvement over the shit Ubisoft pumps out to make it work. It feels like a damned either way situation.
I can't think of any company in existence whom a monopoly wouldn't suck, but Tencent would be one of the worst, or even the worst, because of how easy they can sway consumers.
Other than, you know, all of those companies remaining in the hands of western leftists lol
I say Tencent because their extreme reach means that the damage they can do spreads well beyond the gaming industry, thus it's easiest for me to imagine the potential hurt.
That's... something. Genshin Impact being a successful game probably shows that there are devs who know how to make and market a game, as sad as it is that those people will also be the followers of one of biggest shitholes on the planet.
It would doubly suck if Tencent got a monopoly over the AAA industry this way. Really, I can't think of any company in existence whom a monopoly wouldn't suck, but Tencent would be one of the worst, or even the worst, because of how easy they can sway consumers.
I can certainly see that happening. What hasn't helped is that there are anti wokists who are openly pro-china like Vox Day (Who I also heard is anti free speech). That being said, I don't know if the hypothetical Assassin's Creed Jade Dynasty or whatever will be enough of an improvement over the shit Ubisoft pumps out to make it work. It feels like a damned either way situation.
Other than, you know, all of those companies remaining in the hands of western leftists lol
I say Tencent because their extreme reach means that the damage they can do spreads well beyond the gaming industry, thus it's easiest for me to imagine the potential hurt.