[2019] Tencent to become largest shareholder in Funcom

Hey folks!

There's a lot of opinions around the Internet about Tencent, so I just wanted to jump into this thread and clear up a few things.

Funcom will still remain fully independent as both a developer and a publisher. Yes, Tencent is the largest shareholder in Funcom, but they are not the majority shareholder. Those are two different things.

What's happened is that they've acquired shares in Funcom that used to be held by another company (KGJ). That's all. Funcom's company structure, management, creative leadership isn't changing. Our games and services are unaffected and will continue as before.

Tencent invests in a lot of different companies: Activision, Ubisoft, Riot Games, Snapchat, even Reddit! And that's all this is, an investment.

I hope that clears things up.

Our games and services will be unaffected and will continue as before :)

As I mentioned in the stickied post: our games and services are unaffected and will continue as before.

They also partially own Activision, Ubisoft, Paradox Interactive, they fully own Riot, and invested in Reddit earlier this year.

This is just an investment. Funcom games and services will be unaffected :)

Our games won't be affected. :) Tencent has become the largest shareholder, but not the majority shareholder, and we remain fully independent.

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