Activision recently bought themselves out from Vivendi, but that isn't the whole story. Tencent, the Chinese mobile company who assisted in the buyout, may symbolize a shift in how Activision treats mobile gaming.
Swedish Arrowhead is behind the successful game Helldivers and made a profit of 729 million kronor last year after its latest launch. In addition, Chinese Tencent has bought just over 15 percent of the shares at a valuation of just over 5 billion.
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While i appreciate the gesture.... all of these retro classics have been made available everywhere else. I am hoping to see some other Activision properties make their way out of the shackles of the 5th, 6th and 7th gen. Licensing be damned... bring back the Transformers Cybertron games.
Love the Cybertron games! TF games have been shit lately. Would love to see that era revisited. I even did the multiplayer!
Metaphor on Gamepass just announced! O.o
Seriously, this is the best generation of Xbox ever!!!
We can´t catch a freaking break from awesome games arriving all the time!!!
It’s a HELL of a game. If you like JRPGs in the family of Persona, you will be in heaven… that is until you hear the various battle music…. then you’ll be somewhere BEYOND heaven!
Ubisoft has created a subsidiary company based on its Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six brands, with a €1.16 billion (approx. $1.25 billion) investment from Chinese megacorp Tencent.
It’s definitely one of the games of all time. One of the games that i’ll try out when it’s free on PS plus which is probably gonna be sooner rather than later, or pick it up when it’s 10 bucks. And all that still is a big maybe.
Im being sarcastic, I wouldn’t touch this slop with a ten foot pole. But apparently Assassins Creed is now all of a sudden the franchise we need to defend with our lives online. I’m simply just summarising the online sentiment around this game and reporting it back to you guys here
It’s the Feudal Japan Assassins creed game we all dreamed about 10 years ago and it’s a massive success, who cares if the story sucks ass (online sentiment)
To be fair, this feels a lot like a preventive measure to ensure the survival of their IPs and help with funding of them via outside support while also giving up part of the profits. While these games aren't going away, this isn't a good sign for Ubisoft to have to make these deals.
THIS. That smells like asset protection, won't surprise me one bit if it turns out Yves and his brothers are named personally along with Ubisoft and Tencent as beneficiaries of this joint venture, so they can retain some control and/or profit participation for those IPs even if they were to loose control over Ubisoft (or, like, to stop such a move from happening as therein lies most of the value of the company)... I guess we could say the Guillemots are building a nest egg (I'll see myself out).
Bro no one ACTUALLY wants Ubi to disappear. They aren't actually any worse than every major publisher in the industry. That'd be horrible for way too many devs. It's just that their decisions don't give much hope that they'd stay in business.
Exactly people love Ubisoft they just want them to pull their head in and go back to the drawing board and bring back the classics like splinter cell
"They just sold a quarter stake to Tencent how does this end well for them"
Same way it ended well to Kadokawa which sold even more to both Sony AND Tencent.
Ubisoft still *owns* their IPs! They still are *independent*! They´d just managed and avoided any possible hostile takeover from EA or MS while retaining their IPs.
Analysts and the gaming market reacted positively to both AC Shadow´s launch and the new deal with Tencent as Ubisoft shares climbed more than 11%.
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But hey, don´t let me stop you from your doom and gloom narrative.
I enjoy most Ubisoft games so I'm hopeful for future plans. Looking forward to the next Division game.
Hopefully, China's involvement will improve their IP development going forward.
tencent already owned 11% of ubi along with 599 other companies. I did not know they owned 100% of RIOT games however. they have their hands in a lot of cookie jars...
Maybe it's time for them to get rids of all the long running IPs and actually start being creative. I still have hopes for the new Heroes of Might and Magic game.
I guess phones and tablets are powerful enough now to get watered down ports of main games, I dread to think how bad the controls would be though, I don't like touch screen controls too much...
More importantly, with this move, Tencent partially owns eSports. They now have Riot games' League of Legends and a stake in Blizzard's StarCraft 2, in addition to the Call of Duty franchise which, over the last couple of years, has been trying to legitimize itself as a eSport franchise. Basically, they are involved in 3 of the top 4 eSports games (everything but DotA2).
As for mobile gaming, seeing how League of Legends, which is really popular worldwide including in China has, as far as I know, yet to even have an official companion app on mobile devices, I'd say Tencent doesn't seem to be putting a lot of pressure on its business partners to create content for mobile devices and is simply acting like an investor and is not heavily involved in the management of the companies.
The big thing is tencent might give activision penetration in china with call of duty online.
The death of it? ...
BAHAHAHAHA. Can't say that without laughing.
Ummm nothing because cell phone games were never real games to start.