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US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companies
(www.theregister.com)
Would Call of Duty be the American equivalent?
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Calling Tencent a "web and gaming giant" is really deceiving here.
It's one of the biggest tech conglomerates in the world. Tencent invest into literally everything: games, social networks, entertainments, cloud computing, finance, AI, other investments... Tencent owns WeChat, Tencent Cloud, Tencent Healthcare just to name a few and helps CCP with surveilance and censorship through these ownings (tbf they don't really have a choice, they're based in China)
100% they are involved in military too so this classification is very much justified.
Don't they also have lots of stakes in other companies.
Yeah that's what the comment said
Epic Games for one.
And Reddit
Discord
I wonder what this means for 50 Cent?
He's on thin ice.
That's horrible. I should Google for more information so I can avoid using companies involved with the military.
They gonna force a sale of League of Legends now?
Already can't trust kassadin, don't need an anti trust
More likely they would leave the market. That game isn’t really popular in NA but it’s the most popular non-mobile game in Asia
...Are you kidding? LoL has been huge for years in NA. RIOT is an American company that was bought by Tencent. Leaving the market means they lose their entire dev team.
RIOT is an American company that was bought by Tencent.
Sure but it ignores that Tencent gave $20 million to create LoL (first 10 then another 10 to buy out the other investors)
Investing 2 years after the game was first playable by the public counts as "giving money to create it", now? That's at least 6 years after they'd have started development.
You've ignored reality.
LoL isn't popular in NA anymore?
Never was that popular
COD and Fortnite are much bigger with the latter even making sports radio talk
The popularity spike was when MLG needed to fill in the Halo Reach spot due to that game’s lack of appeal
There's not way you can say that game wasn't ever popular. Maybe it's never been the literal most popular, but it's definitely had a life as a majorly popular game. Large streaming views, tons of players, etc. I have no idea how it's doing now, but it definitely had a number of years of major popularity.
What? League is consistently the top result of twitch. Even accounting for other regions, league is by far one of the largest games people watch in na. Big na streamers pull in thousands of viewers (doublelift, tyler1 for example)
Do Fortnite next.
Gosh I feel like I've heard Tencent has a stake in some other company that isn't mentioned here yet.
what was it . . . hmmmmm
I'm really not sure which one you mean, because they own interest in a ton of companies.
Does this mean league of legends is a weapon
I mean it installs a rootkit on your computer that gives them full control over everything including what you type, hear, and see as well as the ability to record what you've previously typed and said. It could at any moment also fully disable your computer (as well as millions of other computers) rendering them useless.
Just because they haven't used it that way, don't assume they can't or won't.
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I mean, there's always been speculation that Vanguard is spyware. There's absolutely no need or justification for always-on cheat detection.
What speculation? It’s literally spyware. You are giving it full low level access to your processor.
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We have a puppet coming into the presidency. China will have all the inroads to our government they care to pay for. Tencent and Co. will be a non-issue.
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