[2020] DEVs confirm that Riot, not Tencent, ultimatly own Valorant.

Wanna clarify some things here before it hits front page.

1. VALORANT :) not Valorant
2. I'm not a VALORANT dev. I'm an application security engineer at Riot. Whilst I have reviewed VALORANT and Vanguard, I do not work on it full (or even part!) time.
3. Tencent do have a majority fiscal stake in Riot but we retain full control of what we build and how we build it.
4. Ultimately, I'm a Rioter and paid by Riot. If you think that Riot is a propaganda arm of any particular government, an employee coming out and saying that it really isn't probably isn't going to convince you. We really aren't, but I'm not sure me just saying so is going to convince people.

So just to make it clear, you're saying Vanguard isn't owned by Riot, but by Tencent. Is my understanding ok?

Vanguard is owned and developed by Riot.

Indefinitely? Or could Tecent decide at any moment that they are in control, since you know, they own Riot.

I'm really not qualified to answer that kind of question. Like, technically, yes, Tencent could become very authoritative over Riot, in a similar way to how the Queen of England is technically in charge of the UK.

Respectfully, it appears that you're trying to get a sound-bite out of me to confirm your suspicions and run with it (as you did with this thread).

This is way out of my area of expertise so I'm going to avoid replying to this. If you have questions specifically about application security, software engineering or privacy I am happy to answer them, but I'm not going to be able to reply to questions like this.