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Tencent is partnered/invested with EA on a HUGE cash cow, FIFA 3 online; Tencent's capital and/or support may be the way that EA is still making money

https://www.tencent.com/attachments_en/ProductlistofTencent2.pdf

Activision China also made Call of Duty online which is fuckhuge in terms of revenue for them

Capcom is on-board with them as well with the partnership/investment on Monster Hunter Online

>yfw capcucks are just as cancerous as assfaggots players by contributing to this

Tencent has appeared to have gotten the license to at least localize Path of Exile for China

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1970529

A reminder that anything made by Hi-Rez Studios (including Rocket League) gives money to Tencent

(archive later)

'"Tencent gets involved in Rocket League in April to bring it to China and be more actively involved in game management; by September they create a crate and key microtransaction system. Before that point they'd been praised for "how they did microtransactions right" and now they have even redditors complaining about what happened'''

(can't archive at the moment, at work)

red*dit.com/r/RocketLeague/comments/7fvzsr/can_have_a_discussion_about_the_state_of_rocket/

https://www.archive.pls/rocket-league/rocket-league-crate-and-key-microtransactions

https://www.rocketleague.com/news/rocket-league-is-coming-to-china/

http://pureplaystation.com/how-rocket-league-finally-did-microtransactions-right/2016/07/

Copy-pasted/mirrored from GG thread:

>Back on topic, tencent isn't just investing into gaymen cash cows, they also have shekels into a bunch of other companies, including spotify

https://archive.is/JmcYl

<What sort of info are you looking for on tencent? They're a massive chinese company and have hands in nearly every single western videogame company.

>according to China Daily, they surpassed Wells Fargo and became the world’s tenth biggest publicly traded company in terms of market value.

>Riot games the makers of LoL is completely owned by Tencent

>Tencent bought a majority stake worth $8.6 billion in Supercell, developers of Clash of Clans and Clash Royale, two of the biggest mobile phone games in the world.

>Back in 2013, Tencent bought a nearly 50% stake in Epic Games

>the same year, Tencent participated in Activision Blizzard’s buyback from Vivendi. Tencent’s stake is $2.3 billion, giving them around 25% of the company which puts out Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and Candy Crush.

http://archive.is/nFa32

>>331462

>That explains why Rocket League was heavily advertised during the Game Awards

A couple of asides that come to mind in regards to Tencent:

^ On the mobile gaming front, they were responsible for the push for Nexon's properties to go mobile, like the failed Dungeon aNd Fighter Mobile (Dungeon Fighter Online in the west) game.

* Related to the first, Tencent actually encourages the practice of gold farming, though this is a common feature when it comes to China-based online games. This is even in the face of stricter regulations on video games passed into laws, they're known to exploit loopholes.

Nintendo Deal With Tencent Paves Way for China Push

https://archive.fo/koDA7

> For all its global popularity, Nintendo Co. has had relatively limited business in China. Now a deal with Tencent Holdings Ltd. has investors excited at the prospect that Nintendo’s Switch console and smartphone games could take off in one of the world’s biggest game markets.

> Nintendo shares shot up by more than 7% to a nine-year high Tuesday as investors welcomed its deal to put one of China’s most popular videogames---Tencent’s “Honor of Kings”—on the Nintendo Switch this winter. The game is called “Arena of Valor” in Europe, and a U.S. launch under that name is set for later this year.

> For the moment, the deal, disclosed last week in a Nintendo video posted online, doesn’t directly involve users in China because the Switch isn’t sold there. But it could be a precursor to further arrangements allowing Nintendo to sell the Switch and its mobile games in China, said people familiar with the thinking of Nintendo and Tencent executives.

> “This is very positive in the longer term in getting Chinese publishers supporting the Switch,” said Macquarie Capital Securities analyst David Gibson. He said he expected Nintendo to introduce the Switch in China by March 2019.

> China is the world’s largest smartphone game market, and “Honor of Kings,” first released two years ago, is one of its standout hits. Research firm App Annie said the game was the top-grossing app in China during the second quarter of this year, earning some $87 million a month on average on Apple Inc.’s iOS platform.

> The game, a battle between five-player teams, has been so popular that this summer, Tencent imposed daily playing-time limits on players aged 18 and under and imposed a curfew for children 12 and under. It was introduced in Europe in August.

> For 15 years starting in 2000, China blocked videogame console makers from its market, saying the consoles could hurt young people’s education. After it opened up in 2015, Sony Corp. and Microsoft Corp. released their latest consoles. NinPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>promote the idea that no comment section = suspect story.

That's actually a pretty good indicator.

Same with a moderated comments section that somehow has no comments questioning or disagreeing.

Relevant for you

>>329140

Also need to push OP's image HARD.

Relevant for the FakeNews branding:

>>329177

Why defame when you can outlaw?

thread repair bump

>>331417 (OP)

http://archive.is/aIN3P

http://archive.is/Pf7Hf

http://archive.is/h1q8G

http://archive.is/ohpcQ

http://archive.is/WRtQs

also here are the archives for the list.

Gone Home arguably created the modern "Walking Simulator" genre, which should earn it a place on that list.

Depression Quest launched GamerGate, ruined the reputation of the far-left, made "SJW" a household slur, exposed their fuckery for all to see, pushed an entire generation of gamers to the right, and helped Donald Trump get elected President. It's one of the most influential games of all time.

>>331421

you'd have a point here if it were a list of "the 500 most influential games of all time" but that's not what the list is, it's "the 500 BEST games of all time" and they rated Depression Quest higher than the original Ninja Gaiden, F-Zero, Star Fox 64, and the original Alone in the Dark!

oh but it gets worse. they rated Gone Home, the fucking WALKING SIMULATOR at 31 in a BEST GAMES OF ALL TIME LIST!

they rated it higher than Chrono Trigger, FF7, Goldeneye, Half-Life 1, Shadow of the Colossus, Smash Bros. Melee, the original Donkey Kong, Super Mario World and Street Fighter 2.

Let that sink in for a minute.

This guy is preaching to the choir (his own audience), but it could help convert others. He's very old school.

https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=c2gKbE9RbeM

Telling the monster he's doing wrong won't help. Starving him works better.

Imagine if everyone who made memes and jokes about EA did the same about people who bought Lootcrates? That they were children who were so poorly skilled and had such a tantrum when they lost- they'd play to win. I bet lootboxes would dry up in a month.

Or if you're playing one of these games (christ knows why) and you've clearly been hammered by someone who bought something, just put in the chat:

> [Player] pays to win.

That's all you need to say, and once. Because you've undermined their victories without using harsh language or insulting any other elements about his character. Just the fact that he wins because he pays- not because he's good. He'll taunt you and insult you and try to get you to argue back. Don't. Just ignore him and carry on. Every message he posts in a temper tantrum makes other players see it and think "Christ- people who buy lootboxes are dickheads."

It's the same as SJW and Marxism. Why tell the politician he's doing something wrong? He knows he is- he's banking on it!

But when all his supporters are mocked, and they start having a tantrum, he has to distance himself or be dragged under.

Mock supporters of Lootboxes, they'll have tantrums (and a few bots will join in making them seem even less human and sane), so EA has to distance themselves.

Still doesn't deal with whales though. That might need full blown gambling laws, but as we've discussed, we need to be crystal clear on what we want, and not a single deviation in phrasing will do.

EA Loses $3 Billion in Stock Value after Battlefront 2 Debacle

>EA is feeling the burn after the gaming community as a whole rebelled against the microtransaction model in Star Wars Battlefront 2. EA debuted an aggressive loot box system in Battlefront 2, a gashapon machine with shooter elements, which tied in-game progression to premium currency transactions that cost real money. Electronic Arts' stock is down 8.5 percent month-to-date, which equates to around $3.1 billion in losses.

http://archive.is/hOSio

>>331196 (OP)

You want to start a moral panic to encourage the government to censor video games?

WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?

>>331196 (OP)

Also, FFS, use some line breaks occasionally!

Vice Suspends Documentary Producer Jason Mojica For [Allegations Of] Sexual Misconduct

https://archive.is/3yniE

> No further comments or statements were produced by Vice regarding Mojica’s suspension, but it comes shortly after both Vice and their subsidiary Waypoint acknowledged the sexual misconduct claims that were said to be rife within the media company’s corporate culture.

> So what exactly did Mojica do? According to Barghouty he asked how flexible she was after asking if she signed the non-traditional non-disclosure agreement, something that Waypoint reproached Vice for using as a means of leverage against employees.

> One of the employees told the Daily Beast under anonymity -- since she had signed the NDA and did not want to risk legal repercussions – that some management used the NDAs as pressure against the young female staff…

< “When older men, senior reporters, or managers would hook up with young female reporter after young female reporter, [my manager] would kind of a shrug and say, ‘Well, non-traditional workplace environment.’”

> The Daily Beast says that employees told them that the managing staff would use the NDA in a joking manner before doing something uncouth.

The "non-standard" NDA (according to OneAngryGamer) says:

> “Although it is possible that some of the text, images and information I will be exposed to the course of my employment with Vice may be considered by some to be offensive, indecent, violent or disturbing, I do not find such text, images or information or the workplace environment at Vice to be offensive, indecent, violent or disturbing.”

https://archive.is/3On9N

A linked document via another article says:

> Due to the nature of business and operations, including but not limited to its print and online publications, sexually provocative and other explicit images, videos and audio recordings are regularly present VICE's offices.

> Tariq Lacy, former PR manager and marketing staff at Area 35, is now claiming game director Hiroaki Yura embezzled that money and used it towards Area 35’s new game, Tiny Metal. Yura responded by accusing Lacy of sexual harassment during his time at the Tokyo-based company.

https://archive.is/mBTMi

There's not much info on either side. Tiny Metal was delayed a month after Tariq's claim.

Brandon claims Tariq used to work at Gumi, and Nintendo HQ in WA state before that.

If Tariq's claim is false, he could be doing this to get attention for his next project, job, or attention in general (going off other SJW- if he's a male feminist sex-pest- it is in character).

It is possible both parties can be lying, both telling the truth, or one is telling the truth and the other is lying.

>>331254

Matt Hickey, Former Gizmodo Journalist Pleads Guilty To Reduced Rape Charges

> https://archive.is/LCQmF

It should be noted there are circumstances someone will admit to guilt when they did not do it. However from a legal POV, we no longer need to say "allegedly" when discussing Matt Hickey.

Not sure if this counts.

Former NeoGaf Mod Amir0x Pleads Guilty To Child Pornography

https://archive.is/zKSpv

> Former NeoGaf moderator and anti-#GamerGate critic, Christopher John Goldberg, has pled guilty to a single count of child pornography. Readers of One Angry Gamer tipped us off to the updated docket and court summaries, which reveal the current status of Goldberg’s impending sentencing, as well as the fact that he has put in a guilty plea to one of the many charges of accessing child pornography.

>>331371

>He wouldn't take "no" for an answer!

>I didn't say "no", I just made up excuses!

Which is it?

Hey, where can I find the mods/admins if some vandalism happens? I wanna know which social site they hang at so I can alert them at a minute's notice if and when something happens.

>>330981

The e-mail is on the front page. admin@thisisvideogames.com

bump

There is a Gamergate Research dump on Voat. https://voat.co/v/ictory/2261029

https://archive.is/XpLWN

The contents within them need to be added to the Wiki.

>>331080 (OP)

>three years

>Still haven't accomplished anything

>Gawker still lives

Good job doing… nothing?

>>331190

>Gawker still lives

Gawker itself is dead, and Nick Denton is unemployed. Frankly, that's more than I ever expected.

There's nothing you can realistically do about the other blogs, because they got bought by a billion-dollar company that can give them (((funding))) until the end of time. Even then, those blogs may eventually die if their users stop using the blog.

Newfag here, I dunno where else to post this.

I ended up semi-ragequitting from the internet during the leadup to GG becoming a thing because if I didn't I was going to have a fucking nervous breakdown, because of that while GG was going on I was only semi-aware of it and never really knew what it was, I only saw the hashtag being thrown around by SJWs on Twitter and some forum threads that I avoided. I only really found out what it actually was when the whole thing blew over and I feel really regretful that I never got to take part in it and join the fight for them delicious e t h i c s

I really want to be able to look back on GG and be able to say I was a part of it. Is there still any way I can contribute or has the whole movement pretty much lost its steam?

GG Wiki is back!

http://thisisvideogames.com/gamergatewiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Make sure to archive all articles mentioned here if there not already

And if an article isn't on here, archive it and add it.

ESRB Rating Cost for Indies is Too Damn High

twitter.com/JessConditt/status/930123611062464512

https://archive.is/U7LJY

https://archive.is/a4pYJ

> In September, the board announced a new tier for rating digital-to-physical games, allowing any title with a development budget of $1 million or less to be rated as a boxed product for $3,000, rather than the standard submission price of more than $10,000. With this change, all three console manufacturers made it a requirement for every game to pay this fee and carry an ESRB rating -- even physical launches of digital titles.

> "Obtaining ESRB assigned age and content ratings has always been voluntary," an ESRB spokesperson tells Engadget. "That said, many US retailers, including most major chains, have policies to only stock or sell games that carry an ESRB rating, and console manufacturers have typically required games that are published on their systems to be rated by ESRB."

> In this case, "voluntary" is a complicated term. Developers aren't legally required to slap an ESRB rating on their games, but without one, they're shut out of the mainstream marketplace.

> "There's no nice way to put it; they basically have a monopoly," Douglas Bogart, co-founder of Limited Run Games, says about the ESRB. "There's no one above them. You have to follow their rules. Your business basically lives or dies by their whim, which is really scary, in my opinion."

> The new mandate is a hurdle for Limited Run, which attempts to cover production fees for all of the indie games they box up, taking a portion of the profits afterward. Since Limited Run sells the physical editions through their own storefront, they've historically not needed to secure additional ESRB ratings or pay any fees. Now, Limited Run and the developers they work with are required to pay at least $3,000 to the ESRB if they want to get physical.

> "We can't just sign any game we want any more solely based on whether we liked it or not," Bogart says. "It needs to have a broPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>331372

> Limited Run co-founder Josh Fairhurst adds, "The physical release that we're putting out could be the difference between them living another day as game developers or closing up shop and going back to something else. I think that what we're doing in terms of making them money is really important."

And then there's the necessary Long Form rating process itself, which can add months to a boxed edition's release schedule.

> "It takes considerably longer now to get a game through the entire process to market, and it also hurts the developer on how much money they're getting," Bogart says. "It's delayed a lot of our stuff, which, as a business, hurts."

> For AAA and mid-size publishers, the new, discounted rate for digital-to-physical games is a net positive -- if they publish a game that cost less than $1 million to make, they get to save a few thousand dollars in rating fees. Small indies, however, are now on the hook for at least $3,000 if they want to release a physical product through a service like Limited Run, iam8bit or Special Reserve Games.

> It's not surprising the new rules favor large publishers over small ones, considering the ESRB's reliance on the multi-billion-dollar AAA gaming market.

> The ESA oversees the ESRB. All three major console manufacturers are on the board, and all three agreed to mandate the new digital-to-physical rating tier this September.

"They just made it harder for us smaller publishers," Bogart says. "In some cases, you're going to see the small publishers probably shrink and go back to digital-only, which is what we were trying to prevent."

> The ESRB has streamlined the rating process for indie developers over the years -- in 2011, it rolled out a free, automatic rating system for digital games; it's still free today. Plus, the ESRB and ESA have invested heavily in the International Age Rating Coalition, which offers free ratings from authorities across the globe. And for midsize or super-successful small studios, the new fee is a real value, implemented "to accommodate publishers of digital games with aPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>331372

>>331373

Starting up a game's studio with no saftey-net is dumb. But, indies shouldn't be raked over the coals as hard as this. How can you justify £3000 to see if a game is appropriate for kids or not, when a 30 min conversation with an honest dev would suffice?

Shit we can still use for the second round. Do not claim the old contract is the new contract, it is just likely to contain the same stuff:

>>240737 (OP) >>240738 >>241044 >>241236 >>241251 >>241415 >>241418 >>241422 >>241423 >>241427 >>241454 >>242072 >>243436 >>243735 >>243842 >>244800 >>245509 >>253895 >>256722 >>263292 >>263489 >>267661 >>269445 >>273547 >>278649 >>278723 >>279991 >>280052 >>280547 >>281152 >>281919 >>282105 >>282106 >>282280 >>282332 >>283188 Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>331361

Yeah no thanks that's great. Glad I tried to avoid making a fucklong post.

Acid help.

>>331348 (OP)

And the guy who made the very impassioned comparison to highscool got suspended for "hate speech rhetoric toward the female community".

Color me shocked.

https://twitter.com/Trainwreckstv/status/928487620509929474

https://archive.is/cpnYr

Also when the thread discussing it on /v/ came up (outside a GG thread) it was instantly beset by shills arguing who's actually an oldfag and who isn't. (((Pure coincidence))).

>>331348 (OP)

>Twitch is also owned by Youtube/Google IIRC. So you're taking money out of their pocket

Isn't twitch owned by Amazon?

>>331348 (OP) (OP)

I hardly ever go to Twitch but holy shit! I browsed through the live list and easily found some cam whores. One of them was using a binaural microphone and whisper flirting while rubbing the microphone ears and licking her lips. Another one was dancing for tips and talking about dumb shit unrelated to games.

>>331350

Yes, you're right. Amazon sniped them at the last second:

https://archive.is/swJY4

Not that Amazon is without sin.

> Helping remove negative reviews from Hillary and Quin's books

> Taking money from some anti-Islam song/book and giving it to a pro "refugee" charity

>Amazon tracking data being sold IIRC, or some shit like that

> The CEO being pro Hillary IIRC

> And an advert where a christian/catholic priest and an muslim imam chat & have a laugh like all imams are kind and sweet.

To be honest, it could be owned by a blank slate- fucking up the worst of the website is nice as a show of power, plus forces SJW to rush to the defense of actual whores going against the sites TOS.

Twitch isn't being ethical.

>>331352

Work out how to record it. If they keep past broadcasts up, even better since you can just email companies that.

Fair analysis from an anon in a GG thread:

> I'm sorry, but I can't see what this is going to achieve beyond inconveniencing a couple of camwhores and feeding the general "Get the lewds off the internet" institutional zeitgeist.

> This is a bad op. Not because it might give us bad PR, but because it doesn't actually help us in any conceivable way.

> We don't want to feed the "advertiser friendly" lobby more than actually necessary.

not OP, but ive tried looking for any semblance of evidence beyond said twitter link. gonna have to side w/ the e-personality with a remaining pulse tbh