Are you excited by upcoming AAA from Tencent?

If it's good, I'll take a fair look at it.

Given that Tencent is China based, I'll probably ignore Lightspeed games. The only thing from them I'll probably end up touching are games using Unreal engine 4/5 as there probably won't be a way around that unless giving up gaming.

No.

Wow, the amount of dislikes...

...I get there's a lot of backlash against Tencent (which I'm not really a fan of either), but the game deserves a fair chance to be judged based on its own merits. It's no Cyberpunk 2077, but it looks fairly promising.

I won't say I'm hype for SYN but it does have me intrigued and so with that, I'm looking forward to how it plays when its release.

No.

Since I now work for Tencent, I have to be. :P

Can't be excited for a game where characters look like dolls

I am willing to give it a chance, my fear is it will loaded with micro-transactions and some sort of malicious software or something that runs in the background, collecting data on you.

Did they also buy your company? They seem to do that a lot.

Seriously?

@mrbojangles25: Yup.

@rzxv04: Yeah, it wasn't anything hostile tho. Tencent just wants to expand their SEA market, and so my previous company decided to sell the assets(us, machinery, IPs) to Tencent.

Good luck. My company was also purchased by a larg multinational corporation, it hasn't been all bad, but it has certainly been interesting.

@mrbojangles25: Thanks. It doesn't feel too bad. Nothing technically changed for us rank and file. I just personally feel kinda weird working for a pure Chinese company.

Best of luck. I was told this is going to be far more common everywhere else this new century. Wish I had the patience to learn their native languages.

Good luck to you, too. I hope everything works out well.

@rzxv04: Oh, I won't try to learn Mandarin, even if they force me. I barely speak my native language and English well lol.

lol fair enough.

I wonder if someone says, “I won’t buy anything made by black people,” sound racist?

Probably right.

But if you say, “I won’t buy anything made by Chinese people,” it’s not racist huh?

Tencent is the gaming company i hate the most. Even more than ea. I hope they fail in everything they do.

i'll give EA games a chance if they put something good why not Tencent

Please don't. I have to find a new work first before that happens.

@kadin_kai:

There is a difference between a race and a totalitarian nazi like government with actual concentration camps of minorities trying to take over the world.

And i am not american btw, and i speak fluent Chinese even if its not my native language.

Your misconstruing it, it's "I won't buy anything made by the Chinese Government".

No one cares if a Chinese person made it.

@TheGrudge13: well EA are just greedy. Tencent are required by law to be interved by the chinese government and have full time government officials working for them.

I have even received official messages

From their wechat platform telling me that discussing goverment related topic in wechat groups will lead to my arrest and the arrest of the creator of the group.

From my point of view i simply dont care about ea, but when it comes to tencent i would prefer their headquarters would burn in a fire and their servers are taken down by an earthquake.

And as china becomes more powerful these censorship threats will also happen to you guys living outside of china. So know its happening and know what you are supporting.

I predict the world will support it no matter what happens because it will lower the price of making games and bring more profits to supranational corporations.

Never heard of it, so no.

Well they should at least know what they are supporting. Just don't think they wont dare to do in on the west

They already did that to the nba, they did it to several European luxury brand, they kidnapped a Swedish citizen, they punish Australia for a coronavirus research. They cant arrest you there, but they can punish you economically or kidnap you if you are too much of a problem.

Why be excited about trash? The West should just ban Tencent products for all I care, just like China does to the western entertainment.

As long as there are profits for said corporations and cheaper goods for the majority. It is what it is.

@rzxv04: given how expansive they are being with their authoritarianism its either going to be complete submission to emperor xi or world war 3. I honestly think so and i don't support or romaticize war. I just don't see them taking a live and let live approach.

They ended in a comparatively much better economical position after the virus. USA, with all due respect, lacks coherent leadership and no other country can rival them. So I don't see things getting better soon.

I hope the employees working at the new Tencent studio will retain the right to support human rights in Hong Kong, Uighur and Tibet.

Oh now that's cool. Can you do me a favor and let them know that this game looks very generic and the characters look like manikins.

@daredevils2k: If I could, I would. When they showed us the teaser, I just contained my laugh. It's also painfully obvious that everything was prerendered.

You do realise Tencent is not owned by the Chinese government?

Is it even possible for anything Chinese not being owned by the CCP?

@kadin_kai: I live here. All large companies are required to have communist party personnel stationed at their facilities. With tencent its specially the case as they own wechat which is the main online communication application in china and the largest electronic payment method. Tecent actively participate in suppression of political speech through this app.

Really I live in China too. I work for a huge bank in the Projects department and there is no such law since the 1990s!

Do you even understand putonghua?

Wo hui shuo, danshi luntan bu yunxu yong hanzi

@kadin_kai: Wo hui shuo, danshi luntan bu yunxu yong hanzi

So i guess you are among the few people that is not receiving messages from wechat threatening arrest if you speak about sensitive topics?

Of course! There are more private and public companies in China than the US!

The China you’re thinking about was in the 1990s!

There is a clear list of companies in China that are state run:

http://en.sasac.gov.cn/n_688.htm

Ha! No I have never received a message from the government threatening arrest.

I work in the Projects department of a Bank, I have worked in many areas of China including Guangdong, Sichuan, Yunnan mainly on oil and gas projects for years.

I have never received such a message from the government and I speak about pretty much all the sensitive topics!

Have you got a screenshot or do you need time to find one on the web?

(Seems like I cannot paste Chinese Characters on Gamespot).

How much spyware are they going to add to it?

@kadin_kai: it doesnt let me either

The warning on chinese was erased, but the thing i am referring to is this

https://www.google.com/amp/s/hongkongfp.com/2017/09/17/china-makes-chat-group-administrators-i-e-regular-users-criminally-liable-unlawful-messages/

Not installing any games or apps from China, highest cyberattack probability.

You said they sent it to you? Sure you’ve had enough time to find something on the web by now?

Cybersec law right? They're probably ahead of the game. It's the likely future for the entire world. Everything is probably headed to that, technocratic, surveillance states, but humanity will survive probably. Big private counterparts seem to be actively suppressing as well but I am not sure.

And if you really are in China and you dislike China so much, why not move back to your own great country?

@rzxv04: this includes politcally sensitive speech. Its not cyber security. Thats a deliberate misnomer.

Mind you i dont hate china, i am just very aware of the objectives of the government.

Reality is many need your resources and many more are willing to do whatever it takes. The next century is probably yours and the world will likely comply. There'll always be some spark with these transitions. Please have patience with some of us.