Friends who like to play games must know that many overseas game platforms such as Steam, because of server problems, the network has delays, if you do not use accelerators, you basically can't play.
Problems such as high latency, stuttering, and dropped offline have always been important factors affecting the gaming experience, especially during the online process, and a series of problems caused by network fluctuations are even more troubling.
As a result, many players will choose to use accelerators to improve network quality. The essence is to get you closer to the game's server by changing sites, so that you can get a better game experience.
At present, the game accelerators on the market are more famous for NetEase UU Accelerator, Strange Game Accelerator and so on.
As Tencent, which accounts for the majority of the game business revenue, it is naturally impossible to let go of this "cake", and in 2018, Tencent stepped into the game accelerator business.
Because Tencent has been deeply involved in the game industry for a long time, its online game accelerator is also favored by players and attracts many users.
Recently, Tencent's online game accelerator announced an upgrade.
According to the announcement of Tencent Accelerator, due to the adjustment of business operation strategy, from May 31, 2022, the "Tencent Online Game Accelerator" will be upgraded to "Tencent Game Manager" and the old version of the service will be gradually stopped.
After the product upgrade, only the national service game acceleration will be supported, and a refund channel will be opened for users affected by this.
Wait, the national service is also accelerated? And is it "supported only"? What about the acceleration of the external service game?
Guo read the announcement several times and found that it was indeed correct, which means that from May 31, the overseas acceleration of Tencent's online game accelerator will become history.
As soon as the news came out, it quickly caused a hot discussion on Weibo, and many netizens said that "where is the upgrade, but the downgrade is right."
Guo students went to the official website due to curiosity, and the official website activity page showed that since August 2018, Tencent Online Game Accelerator has not updated related activities.
And the last announcement date was December 25, 2020, or more than a year ago, and there are no version updates.
From the above aspects, Tencent's online game accelerator has long been "abandoned" by Tencent.
This has also led to many Users of Tencent's online game accelerator, but the reputation is extremely poor, and even some users said that "it is more card than not open".
In the accelerator business, overseas game acceleration is the most demanding and most profitable.
"Give up the big watermelon, leave a small sesame", what is tencent's operation in this wave? Many netizens said it was difficult to understand.
As we all know, since last year, the industry has begun to tighten all game-related policies, and this step is getting faster and faster.
Far from saying that it is close, the control of minors' games was first carried out by Tencent, and Tencent is also at the forefront of facial and identity authentication.
Guo speculated that because the online game accelerator business does not make money, and Tencent has always found a change in the direction of the wind, it chose to directly cut the project and stop the loss.
Otherwise, with the accelerated demand for overseas games that are now gradually expanding, Tencent, which has a lot of money, will not cut this business.
Because the accelerator is not only an accelerator, it is also an important part of Tencent's game business ecosystem, even if it loses money, it must be raised.
Accelerators, on the other hand, are essentially a game ladder.
The game is a game that has not been reviewed overseas, the service used is also a foreign service, and the use of accelerators to play the game of external service is essentially a kind of wall climbing, which is theoretically non-compliant.
It's just that this thing has a relatively small influence, and usually everyone can pretend not to see it.
But perhaps it is the recent tightening of policy, large companies do not need to risk this little money, since there is a risk, it is cut, it can also be explained.