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Google discussed teaming up with Tencent to buy Epic Games (www.tweaktown.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 109 points 11 months ago (3 children)

That might be the grossest headline I've ever seen.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

I literally said "ew"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Yeah, it's like...slimy and oily. Ugh.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

If Epic ever takes away the free games on their platform then be the day I will have no games on the platform and no reason to keep it.

I buy all my games on Steam and get free games on Epic.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago

Google just went full evil now. Ick.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

As per The Verge, the court case revealed email testimony between Google executives that laid out preliminary ideas and plans for the gaming platform.

In July 2018, Phil Harrison [ex-Stadia lead] wrote the following regarding a potential Epic acquisition or stake purchase:

I've taken a stab at a high-level strategic rationale for an investment in Epic.
  Fortnite is (or can be) the leading business driver for Google across:

  YouTube (already 100M+increase in game watch time MAU)
  GCP (to shift 130M+players from AWS and build an anchor tenant in games)
Dav Sobota, who served as director of corporate development at Google from 2008 - 2018, replied with the following message that discussed potential plans to team up with Tencent in some way:
   As a potential alternative, Phil is proposing we consider approaching Tencent to either

   (a) buy Epic shares form Tencent to get more control over Epic (unclear how that helps us without a majority share) or

   (b) join up with Tencent to buy 100% of Epic (and then of course we do a lot of deep commercial things with Epic).

got us so worried about the Deep State, we forgot about Deep Commercial

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

As much as I dislike Epic Games, that's the biggest heck no for me.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

Fuck all three of those companies, fucking gross

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Don't worry, look what happened to stadia etc.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

I know Epic gets a lot of hate, but this is definitely a possible worst case outcome. Hopefully anything but this happens instead.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

2018 though

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Ah yes, our shitty Big Tech corporations teaming up with the shitty Chinese Big Tech corporations, I don't see there any issues at all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Pure evil

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

When your game of choice is proprietary it is part of a big, copyright trading card game.