Here's a bit of industry news for you. Techland, developer of Dying Light, have announced some "exciting news" about the future of their studio.
After the usual PR talk about wanting the best for the studio, Techland CEO Pawel Marchewka dropped word that Tencent are going to be acquiring a "majority shareholder". Marchewka went onto mention the deal will allow them to "move full speed ahead with the execution of the vision for our games" and that they will retain full ownership of their IPs and maintain creative freedom.
Because we all enjoy game industry consolidation right? What could possibly go wrong with all these big groups swallowing up publishers and developers? There's Microsoft grabbing Activision Blizzard, Embracer eating up everything they can and then closing a bunch and of course Tencent back again with more.
Tencent have invested into (and in some cases fully own) the likes of Riot Games, Epic Games, Turtle Rock Studios, Funcom, Bloober Team, Don't Nod, FromSoftware and plenty more.
What are your thoughts? Let me know in the comments.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
I just hope that ultimately it turns out that new studios come up faster than the big boys can cannibalize them.
slaapliedje Jul 24, 2023
The legendary Dying Light community manager Uncy posted in the DL Discord three days ago that he is leaving Techland after 5+ years, the most beloved person in the community hands down. His reasoning "wanting to try new things" now seems rather suspect. I'm extremely disappointed and upset over this.
Sure they may not quite have the polish of titles like Dying Light, but at least you can afford them and they are not locked behind dodgy monetary systems and the surveillance capitalism model with DRM / Anti-cheat (cough.. spyware) let alone they will be guaranteed to run without an emulation layer and will probably run better on lower end hardware.
Games are not all about graphics, look at battlebit remastered for instance, are you telling me a game made by 4 young individuals between their full time wagie jobs using unity is not a feat capable by opensource game devs / coders ? We could crowd fund the exact equivalents for each game genre using GODOT. Make them modifiable and there you have it..
Last edited by Lofty on 24 July 2023 at 6:05 pm UTC
At least the game developers that are being bought out generally develop AAA games, ain't nobody got money for that (also considering a high likelihood of spyware such as EOS).
Moment Tencent got hand on Back4Blood, development and support of game ended.
StalePopcorn Jul 24, 2023
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