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.
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Quoting: LoftyWhat we need is more opensource games, crowd funded or via donations using powerful modern FOSS game Engines.
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..
If you wanna support the indie FOSS gaming market buy these games pls, they're made using Godot and they're killing it.
Brotato
Cassette Beast
Halls of Torment
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Techland founder is one of the richest people in Poland so it's not like he had to sell. Pure greed.
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Quoting: GuestQuoting: dpanterI literally cannot voice my disgust enough. For shame Techland.
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.
Well let's face it, every man has a price on this planet. If you're offered millions and can retire tomorrow, you're going to say oh no, I prefer to remain poor because of my ideals?
There are a few people like this, but they are very few.
Anyway, this game can rest in peace tencent will just try to monetize the hell out of it.
Well, given what PB says above, it sounds like they were not actually 'poor' at all, let alone poor by western standards. I take your point, but there is a difference between making good (still epic by most people standards) money, paying your fair taxes and paying your workforce well (even sprinkling some on your local community / charity) VS profiteering out of the sake of pure greed, because you really need that extra 25 million to put into that offshore tax haven.
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StoneColdSpider Jul 24, 2023
A gaming dev/publisher taken over by a large corporation........ Just another day ending in Y.........
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I'm all in favour of game studios selling themselves to Tencent and Microsft, just as long as every single person from the bought studio immediately quits and form a new game studio with their freshly earned money...
jokes aside, yeah, this is horrible and just the sort of thing that makes me happy to support a games store that acts as a games store not as a mafia boss for the entire gaming vertical
arguably Valve is closer to my preferences in this regard, but I'd be happy to hear what's the general take on which other big fish are acting nice towards the existance of small fish
jokes aside, yeah, this is horrible and just the sort of thing that makes me happy to support a games store that acts as a games store not as a mafia boss for the entire gaming vertical
arguably Valve is closer to my preferences in this regard, but I'd be happy to hear what's the general take on which other big fish are acting nice towards the existance of small fish
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Quoting: jams3223If you wanna support the indie FOSS gaming market buy these games pls, they're made using Godot and they're killing it.Cassete Beasts is indeed awesome!
Brotato
Cassette Beast
Halls of Torment
I'll have to look up the others now!
Godot is such a nice engine for Linux, gotta love how little iissues it causes for us compared to Unity.
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Quoting: jams3223If you wanna support the indie FOSS gaming market buy these games pls, they're made using Godot and they're killing it.
Brotato
Cassette Beast
Halls of Torment
Quoting: MarlockCassete Beasts is indeed awesome!Don't forget Ex-Zodiac, as well! Superb Star Fox spiritual-successor rail-shooter, with native Linux support. Runs great, and plays exactly like I was hoping for.
I'll have to look up the others now!
Godot is such a nice engine for Linux, gotta love how little iissues it causes for us compared to Unity.
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Expect them go Epic-first or exclusive for their next game...
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QuoteMajority shareholder
and...
Quotethey will retain full ownership of their IPs and maintain creative freedom
Pinky swear!
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benstor214 Jul 25, 2023
Quoting: kuhpunkt‘Right… they do still own their IPs and, of course, they are free to be creative on these IPs in their free time. 😉QuoteMajority shareholder
and...
Quotethey will retain full ownership of their IPs and maintain creative freedom
Pinky swear!
Naturally, from 9 to 5 we fully expect them to work on whatever we tell them to work on.’ - the majority stakeholders
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