Why have the League of Legends announcers stopped saying the words "Hong Kong" in phrases such as the team "Honk Kong Attitude", and instead only say HKA? Does Tencent control the broadcast/streaming?
Tencent owns Riot Games who made LoL.
Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights
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Re: Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights
#12Epic CEO says a lot of stuff he doesn’t mean or live up to.
Can you elaborate?
"Microsoft wants to monopolise games development on PC. We must fight it" by Tim Sweeney in 2016
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/04/microsoft...
3 years later ends up buying out indie games and puts them behind exclusivity on the Epic Store
On Linux gaming "The real enemy of Linux are these trolls who try to overrun social media channels to make claims in bad faith and attempt to harass developers into compliance. They’re scaring lots of good game developers away." https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/115052159963387494...
About dev cuts:
In January "This is the only practicable way to operate a 12% fee store in developing countries." https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/109102593910919987...
5 months later: “If Valve commits to a permanent 88% revenue share, we’ll stop making new exclusive deals” https://www.dsogaming.com/news/tim-sweeney-if-valve-commits-...
etc.
Tim Sweeney is an interesting person, like a weathervane
Re: Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you elaborate?
"Microsoft wants to monopolise games development on PC. We must fight it" by Tim Sweeney in 2016 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/04/microsoft... 3 years later ends up buying out indie games and puts them behind exclusivity on the Epic Store On Linux gaming "The real enemy of Linux are these trolls who try to overrun social media channels to make claims in bad faith and attempt to harass developers int…
The Epic store thing would be analogous if Epic made Windows, which they don't - there isn't a contradiction in Sweeney's position here whatever one might think of the merits of the Epic store.
Re: Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights
#14Tencent bought 40% of Epic Games at some point: what's different between Blizzard and Epic's relationship - is it, as the CEO said, he is the controlling shareholder? As many gamers are saying however, him stating this, because Tencent will profit from their ownership of Epic - they will boycott Epic's games as well.
I'd imagine the ones who are going to boycott Epic games have been doing so already over the launcher/store. I don't see this event adding more to the heap. Personally, I'm not one of these people, but I have refused to buy products for random reasons too so to each their own.
If anything, I'm kind of shocked he's jumping out ahead of an event happening to Epic Games of a player protesting on behalf of Hong Kong and stating what they will do, with Tencent being part of their funding. Either this is to push the "they don't control us" narrative re:Tencent. I don't know how big Fortnite is in China (seems PUBG is the big one there?) and they relatively recently bought the developer behind Rocket League I believe which similarly, don't know how big of a presence they have in China.
Kudos to him whatever the reasoning though. Being willing to draw the ire of a country that, population wise, eclipses your other larger markets because you disagree with their handling of a protest is gutsy on his part. Granted, they're basically printing money with Fortnite so I guess he doesn't have to care too much to keep the lights on, but still, he is not solely driven by capitalism as it would be easy to just stay quiet.
Re: Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights
#15Why have the League of Legends announcers stopped saying the words "Hong Kong" in phrases such as the team "Honk Kong Attitude", and instead only say HKA? Does Tencent control the broadcast/streaming?
Tencent owns Riot Games who made LoL.
To be specific, Riot Games sold the full 100% to Tencent. Tencent owns partial shares in a lot of companies; when it comes to Riot Games / League of Legends, that percentage is the full 100.
Re: Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tencent owns Riot Games who made LoL.
To be specific, Riot Games sold the full 100% to Tencent. Tencent owns partial shares in a lot of companies; when it comes to Riot Games / League of Legends, that percentage is the full 100.
Thanks for correcting me. I see my mistake now.
Tencent controls 40% of Epic.
Tencent controls 100% of Riot/League of Legends.
Epic has no control over Riot/League of Legends.
Re: Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights
#17Gaining some goodwill for the Epic Store. Now Valve needs to take the same stance to get back to the status quo.
They won't. Valve has a huge presence in China, Epic doesn't.
Re: Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights
#18Is that the same company that recently was in the news due to brutal workloads and work hours?
They're a videogame company, so probably.
Re: Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights
#19Re: Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights
#20Epic is owned ~45% by Tencent. So I doubt this is going to be true.