Tencent owns shares in a ton of companies that publish games on Steam so a part of the proceeds go to them. Thankfully, it still remains a rumour, but I wouldn't be surprisedĪs to indirectly supporting Tencent through Valve. Rumour has it Tencent has a huge influence over SEA when it comes to events. Problem is that Tencent is too big and Valve cannot avoid them, not just in China, but everywhere. North Korea would likely do the same if they open up one day. That's one of the reasons that there aren't that many international tournaments there as opposed to other countries. Apart from their own tournaments, Tencent, through their subsidiaries, organize every event on Chinese territory, most notably TI9, a Valve event. Valve and the likes cannot waltz in without a local partner. Care to guess how was CS:GO launched in China? No need, it was through Perfect World. Tencent being the monopoly in the market there, both directly and through Riot, which they fully own and Perfect World, NetEase, 37Games, IGG, Shanda and The9 which they partially own. For SP games you can pirate them, but they do have their hand everywhere so in one way or another, we're still supporting them.Įvery major game publisher or companies looking to launch a client or a game in China needs to partner up with a Chinese company to do that and create a new entity there. Hell, Epic even owns EasyAntiCheat and they get money from games that have that and tencent gets a cut off of that too.Īll I'm trying to say, we can't run away from Tencent. Even if you decide to boycott all those companies, you'll still be forced to buy games that run on the Unreal Engine which is owned by Epic Games or other engines created by people in which Tencent invested as they get money when you buy a game that runs on their engine. We can argue and say they are bad and stuff like that, but the main thing is that if you don't want to buy a game on EGS to stop supporting Tencent, you're still supporting them by buying games from companies in which they have shares.

It is partnered with Valve and EA not only for China, but the majority of the SEA countries too and it also owns a percentage of some of EAs sectors. Tencent has shares in Epic Games ( not enough for controlling majority ), and as the biggest company in the games sector also has shares in other companies like Bluehole, Ubisoft, Blizzard, GGG, Platinum Games and many others.

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