As this community's Epic fanboy...
I'm okay with this. Tencent has protected Epic from hostile takeover by Google and Apple, and it's not like you have to sign a contract saying "Taiwan is China" before you open the games they make.
I'm kind of interested as to why they buy up failing studios though. A lot of them never get heard about again because they never make anything worthy of attention even with the China money.
There's arguments to be made about data harvesting, but Steam is co-operating with Perfect World, which is also Chinese. Google is notorious for sucking up every bit of data they can get their hands on, and yet there are people who have Google phones and Google home assistants.
It's definitely better than EA, but it suggests Back 4 Blood was an absolute colossal flop.
I played the beta, having a woman whine at me throughout the game was fun. Probably why it flopped, honestly. That and that there's literally no progression if you play solo.
I wish Epic would de-list Battlefield 2042 from their store already.
As this community's Epic fanboy...
I'm okay with this. Tencent has protected Epic from hostile takeover by Google and Apple, and it's not like you have to sign a contract saying "Taiwan is China" before you open the games they make.
I'm kind of interested as to why they buy up failing studios though. A lot of them never get heard about again because they never make anything worthy of attention even with the China money.
There's arguments to be made about data harvesting, but Steam is co-operating with Perfect World, which is also Chinese. Google is notorious for sucking up every bit of data they can get their hands on, and yet there are people who have Google phones and Google home assistants.
It's definitely better than EA, but it suggests Back 4 Blood was an absolute colossal flop.
I played the beta, having a woman whine at me throughout the game was fun. Probably why it flopped, honestly. That and that there's literally no progression if you play solo.
I wish Epic would de-list Battlefield 2042 already.