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Tencent acquired a quarter on stakes at Ubisoft subsidiary

Tencent is known as the biggest villain in gaming by many, which is quite ironic, they are only just Chinese EA games. While people keep complaining about external companies doing unethical things, they turn a blind eye to the problems happening at home. People love bashing Chinese companies for infringing on things internal companies have infringed for decades. Regardless of what they say and how blind they are to the internal issues, yes, Tencent is a problem. The industry of gaming is however in a dire state, people who have been gaming for decades now are being displaced by this profit driven organizations. We at Infinite Start will tell you what will happen.

Tencent is Asian EA Games

Apparently Tencent seems to have acquire 25% on the stakes of Ubisoft’s gaming subsidiary. In this day of outsourcing things to others, the fact that a subsidiary is being taken over is a big deal. Creativity after all has stopped to be a thing that is done in house, and now everything is being sourced out by small studious who only have tight deadlines and pitiful wages. People wonder why games are coming broken left and right, yet, instead of realizing the ills of our current Capitalistic system and its symptoms, they decide to continue their senseless culture war.

Games from Ubisoft aren’t being a mess because the new culture war word is popular, but because the identity of the games changed to become more profitable, following capitalistic market trends. This is pretty much happening in every entertainment medium that isn’t indie driven. Real artists mostly care about creating meaningful things for people to enjoy, games as art are important, yet, these companies are only busy making things that sell.

When the focus of games as an art form stops being a thing, problems like the ones we deal with now are what happens. If you don’t want to see games dying, it is better to just move on to indie titles. Ubisoft will undoubtedly fall in the coming years, and their quality will decline.

Guido Salvador

Avid TCG player and big fan of JRPGs. He loves plenty of obscure titles on older systems.

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