With the growing strength of Tencent, self-developed games have gradually left the player's vision, and more news about Tencent games has now become which game company it bought. Today, I will talk to you about these game companies that have been bought, and how they are doing.
Tencent self-developed God of War
Buying the developer of League of Legends, Tencent has firmly established the e-sports circle
To say that Tencent's series of buying and buying, the most famous and profitable is "League of Legends" undoubtedly. Before the "League of Legends" opened the national service, Tencent had already purchased 22.34% of the shares of "Fist"; before the launch of the "League of Legends" national service in 2011, it acquired 70.44% of the shares of the developer "Fist" for 1.679 billion yuan, that is to say, before the launch of the national service, 92.78% of the shares of "Fist" were already in The hands of Tencent.
Tencent has long been laid out
In order to make "League of Legends" stand firm in China, Tencent has invested a lot of money and promoted and operated in a big way, until 2013, "League of Legends" has been in a state of loss for Tencent. After Tencent's unremitting efforts, League of Legends became the second most profitable game in the world in 2013. Finally, in 2015, Tencent bought the remaining shares of "Fist", reaching 100% control.
Does not hinder the development of fists
Now the "fist" with "League of Legends", occupying half of the global e-sports. The subsequent "League of Legends" spin-off animation is sought after by many players around the world, and the new game "Fearless Contract" is even more hot in the circle, and the number of viewers has repeatedly surpassed "League of Legends" on twitch, the world's largest live broadcast platform.
Fearless Contract is another popular competitive game
With the acquisition of the developer of "Road to Exile", Tencent has the hottest dark game of the moment
Blizzard's Diablo ushered in the era of "Diablo" games and spawned many "diablo-like" games, but unfortunately Blizzard didn't get the series any further. Subsequent dark games such as Dawn of Terror, Journey of the Titans, The Last Age, Road of Exile, Torchlight, etc., have all gone out of their way, except for Blizzard, the creator of which gradually declined.
Diablo 3
As a niche type of game, Tencent did not give up the opportunity to "buy, buy and buy", first obtained the agency right of the "Road of Exile" national service, with its own skilled operating experience, "Road of Exile" has become such a game in a very short period of time, the leader in the country, players who like "dark-like" games, even if they do not play "Road of Exile", they also know the existence of such a game.
The Road to Exile
In 2018, Tencent acquired an 80% stake in Grinding Gear Games, the developer of Road to Exile, with lightning speed, becoming the de facto largest controlling shareholder of GGG. Many players were frightened by Tencent's operation, worried that "Road to Exile" would become Tencent's kryptonite game from now on, and Tencent directly threatened not to interfere in game development and operations in non-national service areas. After several years of season updates, Road to Exile became the game with the most players online in this type of game on Steam, and Tencent kept its promise from beginning to end, not interfering in the development and operation of GGG.
Exile Road Motherboard
Buy the "Star Wars" headquarters, Tencent added another explosive liver brush game
The brush game "Star Wars Armor", which focuses on third-person shooting, with its excellent game optimization, grand story background, constantly updating the rotating armor, and the content gameplay of the liver, has successfully gained a group of loyal fans, and "Star Wars Armor" has occupied the top of the free game leaderboard on the Steam platform for many years.
Support armor custom coloring
As the developer of Star Wars, Digital Extremes (commonly known as DE), the game is their brainchild. DE has been working StarCraft, constantly updating the game's story and accumulating enough word of mouth among players. In 2020, Tencent Mobility Limited, a subsidiary of Tencent, directly acquired Leyou Technology, the parent company of Star Wars, and DE officially replaced the owner.
Tencent acquires DE parent company
As early as 2018, "Star Wars" landed on Tencent's wegame platform, and many players expressed concern about Tencent's acquisition, or the official DE stood up and said that Tencent would not interfere in the creation of the game, while praising Tencent as a company that respects the studio. Since the acquisition, DE has been constantly introducing new content and gameplay for StarCraft, maintaining a very high game quality, which is also a testament to what DE said before.
Integrity of Tencent
Other game companies bought by Tencent
Tencent's crazy buying and buying is of course more than that, Funcom of the representative work "Conan the Exile", Sumo Group, which participated in the production of AAA masterpieces such as "Tomb Raider", "Killer 2", "Dungeons and Dragons", and Supercell Studio, whose masterpiece "Clash Royale", etc.
Clash Royale
In addition to directly buying the company, Tencent has also invested heavily in various game manufacturers, such as epic, Ubisoft, Blue Hole, Activision Blizzard, SE, Platinum Studios, Kakao, etc., which are familiar to us.
Black Desert developer kakao
epilogue
These overseas game companies acquired by Tencent, they all have one thing in common, Tencent will not interfere in their creation and operation (non-national service areas). It can be said that Tencent is notorious in China, but In the international arena, Tencent's reputation is the opposite. Some players even compare Tencent with EA (the American version of Tencent), Tencent at least does not interfere in creation, and compared with EA's IP mass grave, it is simply not too good.
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