Rumours, speculation and hearsay? “Interesting” at least.
11 points
Tencent has a minority stake in Larian. That’s very different from being wholly owned and managed by them.
14 points
And Tencent has a minority stake in, like, every functioning software company that’s ever done an investment funding around at this point. They make it a point to diversify their holdings across basically the entire software industry at this point.
They’re fairly hands-off in those endeavours, since they’re doing it to protect themselves against shifts in the market.
Their in-house made stuff, though, is… Well, let’s just say it’s efficiently monetized.