More game industry news coming at you following the Team17 buying up Golf With Your Friends and YoYo Games being acquired by Opera we now have Klei Entertainment agreeing for Tencent to take a majority stake in them.
Speaking in a forum post, studio head Jamie Cheng mentioned they've "agreed to deal for Tencent to purchase a majority stake in Klei Entertainment" and that "Klei retains full autonomy of creative and operations across all aspects of the studio, including projects, talent, and more".
Klei have actually been working with Tencent since 2016, as Tencent helped Klei distribute games through China on the WeGame platform and more recently a mobile Don't Starve game. Cheng also mentioned how a "large proportion" of their players are actually from China.
Tencent have invested in a lot of different companies including Riot Games, Epic Games, Funcom, Supercell, Bluehole (PUBG) and many many more.
Pictured - Don't Starve Together
Klei have been good to Linux for games giving us the likes of Don't Starve, Don't Starve Together, Oxygen Not Included, Invisible, Inc. and Mark of the Ninja. Hopefully more to come with creative control remaining with the current Klei head.
This trend of companies pulling together lots under their banner is a little worrying, too many eggs in one basket.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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iwantlinuxgames Jan 24, 2021
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slaapliedje Jan 24, 2021
Quoting: iwantlinuxgamesHa ha, I think I recently saw something that showed it wasn't Kool-Aid they drank, but actually was a rip off one.
https://www.woot.com/blog/post/the-debunker-did-the-jonestown-cultists-drink-the-kool-aid
QuoteBut here's the detail that most people don't know: the 907 people who died of cyanide poisoning at Jonestown did not ingest the poison in Kool-Aid. Instead, Jones's aids mixed up the fatal cocktail in metal drums of grape Flavor Aid, Kool-Aid's cheaper competitor. Somehow Flavor Aid escaped unscathed from this public relations nightmare, with Kool-Aid taking the hit instead. The Kraft brand seems to be doing okay though, still selling over $300 million worth of its fruity powders every year.
Last edited by slaapliedje on 24 January 2021 at 6:05 pm UTC
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Quoting: rea987True but it's good to know what you're arguing about. In this case, talking about whether the game runs on Linux is shifting to arguing about something else than what was originally being discussed--hence, whether true or not, or generally relevant to the site or not, it fails to refute what the other person is saying.Quoting: TheSHEEEPA game losing support for a platform doesn't make the game itself any worse. Just like having Linux support on its own doesn't make any game any better.
You do realize this is a site dedicated to Gaming on Linux? Of course a game losing support for a Linux make itself worse for Linux players.
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iwantlinuxgames Jan 24, 2021
Quoting: slaapliedjeQuoting: iwantlinuxgamesHa ha, I think I recently saw something that showed it wasn't Kool-Aid they drank, but actually was a rip off one.
https://www.woot.com/blog/post/the-debunker-did-the-jonestown-cultists-drink-the-kool-aid
QuoteBut here's the detail that most people don't know: the 907 people who died of cyanide poisoning at Jonestown did not ingest the poison in Kool-Aid. Instead, Jones's aids mixed up the fatal cocktail in metal drums of grape Flavor Aid, Kool-Aid's cheaper competitor. Somehow Flavor Aid escaped unscathed from this public relations nightmare, with Kool-Aid taking the hit instead. The Kraft brand seems to be doing okay though, still selling over $300 million worth of its fruity powders every year.
sure, it's possible....
but brand names very often become "a thing":
let me google that
pass me a kleenex
i need a band-aid
this floor could use a good hoovering(bonus points to anyone who gets that reference)
i just noticed there was alot of Corporate Overlord Propaganda Flavored Kool-Aid on offer here and i wanted to make sure others had more flavors to choose from.
Last edited by iwantlinuxgames on 24 January 2021 at 6:28 pm UTC
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Quoting: TheSHEEEPLots of authoritarian systems suck at delivering the goods--most, even. China's does some things that most authoritarian systems don't . . . and actually has for centuries. I see the current Chinese system as basically a modern-tech version of the traditional Chinese "Government by scholars who passed the exam" system. Or, to look at it a different way, as government by the HR department. Basically, the Communist party tries hard to promote based on merit, so despite corruption most of the higher-ups are competent. Meanwhile, so far, capitalist though they basically are, the Chinese government see capitalism and markets as things to be managed rather than worshipped; this works better.Quoting: Segata SanshiroMore like authoritarian capitalism or "capitalism with Chinese characteristics." I honestly hope no one tries to emulate that, it sounds like an incredibly unpleasant world to live in.Don't know about that. In contrast to the slowly collapsing economies we have in the west, their shit works and seems vastly more stable. And that is IMO mostly due to the advantages of authoritarian systems.
Not saying all should copy it, but it should be looked at thoroughly and without blinding idealism to see what improvements, if any, can be taken from it and applied to ours.
I don't think that situation is stable, though, for the same reasons the Anglosphere postwar welfare state was not stable: Eventually the fast growth that lets both rich and poor see some of their aspirations met will slow down, and their rich, like ours, will realize that if they want to get forever more they're gonna have to steal it from the poor, and to steal it from the poor they'll need more control of the state. Then things will stagnate and get more unequal and unstable and corrupt until the Chinese masses decide
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slaapliedje Jan 24, 2021
Quoting: iwantlinuxgamesOh yeah, I know for sure how brand names become synonymous with the definition of that thing. Though for Kool-Aid I'm sure that isn't something they are proud of. 'Drink the Kool-Aid' sounds so much better than 'Drink the Flavor-Aid' though! Both I'm sure are deadly to me without cyanide as they're basically sugar. Stupid diabetes.Quoting: slaapliedjeQuoting: iwantlinuxgamesHa ha, I think I recently saw something that showed it wasn't Kool-Aid they drank, but actually was a rip off one.
https://www.woot.com/blog/post/the-debunker-did-the-jonestown-cultists-drink-the-kool-aid
QuoteBut here's the detail that most people don't know: the 907 people who died of cyanide poisoning at Jonestown did not ingest the poison in Kool-Aid. Instead, Jones's aids mixed up the fatal cocktail in metal drums of grape Flavor Aid, Kool-Aid's cheaper competitor. Somehow Flavor Aid escaped unscathed from this public relations nightmare, with Kool-Aid taking the hit instead. The Kraft brand seems to be doing okay though, still selling over $300 million worth of its fruity powders every year.
sure, it's possible....
but brand names very often become "a thing":
let me google that
pass me a kleenex
i need a band-aid
this floor could use a good hoovering(bonus points to anyone who gets that reference)
i just noticed there was alot of Corporate Overlord Propaganda Flavored Kool-Aid on offer here and i wanted to make sure others had more flavors to choose from.
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areamanplaysgame Jan 24, 2021
Quoting: TheSHEEEP2.) So, what? You think only the Chinese government has games made on behalf of them? Seriously?
No, I don't. Any more stupid questions?
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Quoting: TheSHEEEPThat's all correct, and it might be possible explanations of why a platform is dropped - security concerns.
But still nothing of that has anything to do with the quality of the game. I'm really not getting the connection here.
Security is just word, it's mask to hide some malware behinde it. EAC, Battleye, Vanguard and PUBG's multiple anti-cheats all are rootkits and Tencent uses standard phrase: "We're not not collecting your personal information, we're using anti-cheats against cheaters".
Give us one bloody reason to trust them?
Who trusts them they don't know about rootkits and security, they know just play games and play them again, nothing more, maybe they not know multiplication table also (from 1x1 to 10x10).
Rootkits are malwares, it doesn't matter for what they are created, all rootkits makes systems vulnerable for another attack vectors.
So, Tencent removes Linux versions, they know that there are many Linux users who don't care about gaming, but can proove that their rootkits are really rootkits, malwares.
have you thinked how many security analystics are interested Tencent's owned rootkits? This analystics also boughted buy Tencent, because they "not exist" any more.
Cheers.
Last edited by Basiani on 30 January 2021 at 3:47 pm UTC
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I did not read all comments, so here's me rudely leaving my opinion without reading others':
I like Klei games and I hope they continue coming out on Linux without loot boxes and the like. But if that does happen, then I know there are like a million indie devs out there these days thanks to easy publishing provided by the Steam store. I will not be in want of games.
I like Klei games and I hope they continue coming out on Linux without loot boxes and the like. But if that does happen, then I know there are like a million indie devs out there these days thanks to easy publishing provided by the Steam store. I will not be in want of games.
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