• wootz
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    1 year ago

    Did you not read the article?

    Tencent own preference stock. They could sell their stock, which could potentially harm the company, but they hold no voting rights and carry no decision making power.

    I am not a fan of China, nor Tencent, but spewing bile without understanding the context does NOT help this discourse.

      • @Zacryon@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        It would be bought. That’s how stocks work. If there is a promising company, there will be interested buyers.

        • @AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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          -21 year ago

          Well, penny stocks exist. It’s possible that Tencent suddenly liquidating their 30% share could bottom out the share value temporarily. If the market decided that Tencent liquidating their holdings was a sign that the company was going under, that should drive the price down, correct?

    • @CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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      -91 year ago

      It’s so irritating to see how eager people come to defend Larian on their lies every time someone calls it out. You’re acting like I said Tencent has Larian on the leash. I mean you’re not even disagreeing with anything I said. Tencent holds shares. They are shareholders, as the article states. Maybe read it again? Do you also claim Larian didn’t receive funding from Tencent? Because Larian was very vocal about not receiving any funding, playing dumb when people wondered how Larian even made such a huge game.

      Rumors have it Hasbro’s gonna sell D&D and Tencent is the most likely buyer. We’ll see how much of Larian’s soul will be left when they get approached to make a huge D&D mobile gacha or whatever Tencent comes up with.

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        51 year ago

        I’m getting whiplash from your logic. You just accused another user of acting like you said tencent had larian on a leash, which we can all agree is not true. Then you go on to say Larian is going to lose its soul when tencent approaches them with a gacha game, as if larian would take them up on this like Tencent has any say in what Larian does.

        Also, Hasbro isn’t selling DnD. Tencent is attempting to buy adaptation rights to the DnD IP, which may not even be true. By all accounts, WotC is the most profitable division of Hasbro. Sounds like you read another headline and didn’t read the article…

        https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesfarrell/2024/02/01/dungeons--dragons-publisher-denies-selling-game-to-chinese-firm-heres-what-to-know/?sh=18d6d6b65159

        • @CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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          -21 year ago

          No, I am saying Larian will do it on their own accord rather than losing out on money in the end. It‘s a tale as old as the gaming industry. We‘ve seen so many downfalls that parallel this pattern and if they‘re already this dishonest at their peak, then I‘m really worried how bad it will be when they‘re at the bottom. Even CDPR didn‘t show nearly as many red flags prior to the Cyberpunk debacle.

          Oh yeah if Habro says so it must be true… boy oh boy.