Rumours, speculation and hearsay? “Interesting” at least.

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      Not every big conglomerate is just a relentless fuckup machine. Baldur’s Gate 3 was made by (edit: a Tencent subsidiary) a studio partly owned by Tencent. I’m not saying they won’t fuck it up, just that there’s no reason to assume out of the gate that they automatically will. And, it’s legitimately a little hard to see them doing worse than Hasbro has been so far.

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          And Tencent has a minority stake in, like, every functioning software company that’s ever done an investment funding around at this point. They make it a point to diversify their holdings across basically the entire software industry at this point.

          They’re fairly hands-off in those endeavours, since they’re doing it to protect themselves against shifts in the market.

          Their in-house made stuff, though, is… Well, let’s just say it’s efficiently monetized.

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          I mean, just a quick glance at this list shows some things that seem at least competently managed. They’re not a relentless crew of counterproductive own-dick-trippers-over like Hasbro.

          That said, the point that they may turn it into a microtransactions bonanza that makes them money but in no way resembles what DND should be is a pretty good one, yes. I was envisioning this future where they realize that the way to make money with it long-term is to just let it be its own thing, but I think there’s a pretty good chance that that idea is as absurd as everyone here seems to think it is.

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              Hm, you are right. The story described it as “owns and has huge holdings,” but that is wrong – for Blizzard it’s 10%, Bluehole 5%, etc.

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        Tencent owns 3% 30% of Larian shares. This does not make them a subsidiary, or fully owned.

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          It’s 30%. The point is pretty valid though, and I did have it wrong in saying subsidiary – I edited my comment to reflect my learning.