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Alan Wake, Control developer agrees €15m convertible loan from Tencent

www.eurogamer.net Alan Wake, Control developer agrees €15m convertible loan from Tencent

Alan Wake and Control developer Remedy has entered into a €15m convertible loan agreement with Tencent.

Games @sh.itjust.works Alan Wake, Control developer agrees €15m convertible loan from Tencent

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Tencent will grow to become the anti-Steam, mark my words. They already have their grubby mitts all over devs worldwide, and every single one will live to regret it (or their players, at the very least).

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- Not just games, movies too. And anything that gets Tencent money ends up with subtle pro-China propaganda.
  
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  they own WeChat too, China's biggest chat app, also used for bill payment and government tracking.
  
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  I'm not saying there isn't, but do you have some examples of pro china propaganda in games and movies? I heard something about the live-action mulan movie being filmed in xinyang, but besides that i haven't personally noticed anything.
  
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  I haven't played in a few years, have they done any of that in EvE Online?
  
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- You say that like they don't own a sizeable chunk of Epic.
  
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  exactly they are already doing it.
  
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- It's okay. The Fediverse assured me again and again it won't matter how much Tencent owns of your company so as long as you "don't think about them (Tencent)". Whatever that means.
  
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Not only is that headline's grammar exceptional(ly bad), for a moment I thought the developer of Control was named Alan Wake. Like, how did they manage to butcher that so badly?

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- No, it doesn't say "Control developer Alan Wake ..."
  
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- If that’s what they meant, there would have been a comma after “Control developer” I believe.
  
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  This is not the place for commas. This calls for a slash.
  
  Alan Wake / Control developer agrees
  
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- That's a perfectly normal headline composition.
  
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  That doesn't mean it's good.
  
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- I can tell you weren't on newspaper staff
  
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  News headlines aren't limited by space on physical paper anymore. If your headline is confusing because of traditions based on outdated limitations it's not a good headline imo.
  
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Yeah I feel there is a weird history between steam and remedy media. Like I remember when you could one day buy Alan Wake like really cheap since it was being taken off steam. Then the Epic deal making Alan Wake 2 exclusive basically meant they excluded a lot of customers immediately on steam.

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- I know a guy who's been working there for well over a decade, I wonder if he's got any insights on this weird behavior they've been doing. He's got no power over financial decisions, so it's not likely he's got any details.
  
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  I understand that Epic funded their project to be an Epic exclusive, but was that a financially sound decision excluding the major market place. Could they not have worked in like a two year or three year exclusive period
  
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That's too bad.

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If they need money honestly Tencent is better than a lot of the alternatives who might be willing to invest.

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